[FOSS Nepal] Re: Fwd: [Asiasource2-participants] Norwegian Standards Council Recommends Mandatory use of ODF and PDF
Haha in the big picture, it's still a war... On 5/20/07, Kushal Hada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the risk of being a nitty gritty, I would replace the word war with battle. =P Prasanna Gautam said the following on 5/19/2007 3:30 PM: Yet another war close to a win... On 5/19/07, Ekta Silwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: David Tremblay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: May 16, 2007 5:41 PM Subject: [Asiasource2-participants] Norwegian Standards Council Recommends Mandatory use of ODF and PDF To: Asia Source 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Norwegian Standards Council Recommends Mandatory use of ODF and PDF Norway is the latest European country to move closer to mandatory government use of ODF (and PDF). According to a press release provided in translation to me by an authoritative source, Norway now joins Belgium, Finland, and France (among other nations) in moving towards a final decision to require such use. The text of the press release, as well as some of the statements made at the press conference where the announcement was made, are appended at the end of this blog post. The Norwegian recommendation was revealed by Minister of Renewal Heidi Grande Roys, on behalf of the Cabinet-appointed Norwegian Standards Council. If adopted, it would require all government agencies and services to use these two formats, and would permit other formats (such as OOXML) to be used only in a redundant capacity. Reflecting a pragmatic approach to the continuing consideration of OOXML by ISO/IEC JTC 1, the recommendation calls for Norway to promote the convergence of the ODF and OOXML, in order to avoid having two standards covering the same usage. According to the press release, the recommendation will be the subject of open hearings, with opinions to be rendered to the Cabinet before August 20 this summer. The Cabinet would then make its own (and in this case binding) recommendation to the Norwegian government. next of the article : http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20070513180219689 ___ Asiasource2-participants mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.iosn.net/mailman/listinfo/asiasource2-participants -- cheers!! Ekta Silwal -- Street address Kushal Hada 342/8 Janaprabhat Marg Kalimati-13 Kathmandu (West) Nepal I send mails from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your replies go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (default) Landline telephone: (977) 1 427 1797 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ FOSS Nepal mailing list foss-nepal@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[FOSS Nepal] Re: Fwd: [Asiasource2-participants] Norwegian Standards Council Recommends Mandatory use of ODF and PDF
Yet another war close to a win... On 5/19/07, Ekta Silwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: David Tremblay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: May 16, 2007 5:41 PM Subject: [Asiasource2-participants] Norwegian Standards Council Recommends Mandatory use of ODF and PDF To: Asia Source 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Norwegian Standards Council Recommends Mandatory use of ODF and PDF Norway is the latest European country to move closer to mandatory government use of ODF (and PDF). According to a press release provided in translation to me by an authoritative source, Norway now joins Belgium, Finland, and France (among other nations) in moving towards a final decision to require such use. The text of the press release, as well as some of the statements made at the press conference where the announcement was made, are appended at the end of this blog post. The Norwegian recommendation was revealed by Minister of Renewal Heidi Grande Roys, on behalf of the Cabinet-appointed Norwegian Standards Council. If adopted, it would require all government agencies and services to use these two formats, and would permit other formats (such as OOXML) to be used only in a redundant capacity. Reflecting a pragmatic approach to the continuing consideration of OOXML by ISO/IEC JTC 1, the recommendation calls for Norway to promote the convergence of the ODF and OOXML, in order to avoid having two standards covering the same usage. According to the press release, the recommendation will be the subject of open hearings, with opinions to be rendered to the Cabinet before August 20 this summer. The Cabinet would then make its own (and in this case binding) recommendation to the Norwegian government. next of the article : http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20070513180219689 ___ Asiasource2-participants mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.iosn.net/mailman/listinfo/asiasource2-participants -- cheers!! Ekta Silwal --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ FOSS Nepal mailing list foss-nepal@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[FOSS Nepal] Re: Fwd: [Asiasource2-participants] Norwegian Standards Council Recommends Mandatory use of ODF and PDF
rocking format- cool ODFbull fightOOXML. On May 19, 2:45 pm, Prasanna Gautam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yet another war close to a win... On 5/19/07, Ekta Silwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: David Tremblay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: May 16, 2007 5:41 PM Subject: [Asiasource2-participants] Norwegian Standards Council Recommends Mandatory use of ODF and PDF To: Asia Source 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Norwegian Standards Council Recommends Mandatory use of ODF and PDF Norway is the latest European country to move closer to mandatory government use of ODF (and PDF). According to a press release provided in translation to me by an authoritative source, Norway now joins Belgium, Finland, and France (among other nations) in moving towards a final decision to require such use. The text of the press release, as well as some of the statements made at the press conference where the announcement was made, are appended at the end of this blog post. The Norwegian recommendation was revealed by Minister of Renewal Heidi Grande Roys, on behalf of the Cabinet-appointed Norwegian Standards Council. If adopted, it would require all government agencies and services to use these two formats, and would permit other formats (such as OOXML) to be used only in a redundant capacity. Reflecting a pragmatic approach to the continuing consideration of OOXML by ISO/IEC JTC 1, the recommendation calls for Norway to promote the convergence of the ODF and OOXML, in order to avoid having two standards covering the same usage. According to the press release, the recommendation will be the subject of open hearings, with opinions to be rendered to the Cabinet before August 20 this summer. The Cabinet would then make its own (and in this case binding) recommendation to the Norwegian government. next of the article : http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=2007051... ___ Asiasource2-participants mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.iosn.net/mailman/listinfo/asiasource2-participants -- cheers!! Ekta Silwal --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ FOSS Nepal mailing list foss-nepal@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
