On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 22:02 -0400, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > On 2012-05-18, at 21:54 , drew jensen wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Just a quick reminder on this. > > > > I will be attending the Barcamp tomorrow and I will, if possible, give a > > brief presentation regarding our project. > > > > It would be great if I could give a peak to the presentation, but for > > that it would have to be finished already... so that is out - it will be > > ready by 9 AM however :) of course I will post it to the wiki > > afterwards. > > > > However, if anyone believes there is something particular you would like > > highlighted I will check emails over the next couple of hours - so go > > ahead and post here or direct to me, either way. > > > > Drew, thanks for doing this and I wish I could join you in the fun! > > I'd say that heaping praise on Apache at an Apache event would probably only > elicit skeptical cynicism, but maybe also beers. :-) Yet, if you could > encourage all to check us out….. :-) > > Oh, one thing. A while ago, Propylon, a company, was working on refining OOo > for legal work; many law firms and related use WP 5.x or beyond. OOo had some > legal templates but the fact is that a huge portion of the legal world is > unable to budge from the weight of electrons and paper, however close to > museum pieces they be. Yet legal workers want open standards, open source > just like the rest of us.
Hmm - odd you would mention that. As it turns out I will be staying in the Metro area an extra day and meeting up with a friend who happens to run the digital archive service for the US Supreme Court on Sunday. The subject of FOSS office suites may come up as I very recently helped his son out of tight spot by walking him via phone through the process of replacing a crashed and badly broken Windows installation with a new Ubuntu 12.04 install, then his college paper started in MSO over to LibO..all while on a family vacation at the beach. Dad is now curious, he is also and most definitely a seasoned MS user/fan and already looking to OOXML, so I expect a conversation, after talking about the Nats vs O's (pro baseball) of course, as one must have priorities ;) on the subject of open standards and ODF. Though your remarks mention wordperfect format files and isn't that kind of an issue with AOO? > > Perhaps, in Wash. DC, a receptive audience to such a thing? Esp. among the US > CIO office, should that be possible? :-) > > Cheers > Louis > > > > Thanks, > > > > //drew > > > >
