On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote:
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:45 AM, Kadal Amutham vka...@gmail.com wrote:
The http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Dfd gives very few information how
OpenOffice uses the open standard file format. By reading the page, I am
not sure whether all the files of AOO are of open standard. The page can
be
added with few more information, in what direction the open standard file
formats are available. Is there any file format for drawings , paintings,
video, audio etc.
The ODF standard handles the main formats used by OpenOffice applications:
*.odt = text documents
*.ods = spreadsheets
*.odp = presentations
(There are others as well, but less common)
I believe this content is easily available on the net, however the focus of
a microsite is to give a very general and to the point message. And also
provide other angles on this like public testimonies, proof of qualities
and milestones in the adoption of the subject (in this case open documents)
and it's relation with the project.
Yes, of course. This is just background information for those on the
list who is not familiar with the history here.
Anyone can go to wikipedia and learn more about the technical parts such as
how many OpenDocuments are, but I think this isn't really the goal of a
microsite, nor should it daunt the reader with it.
I also think is an opportunity to embrace some design trends used such as
Single-Page Websites SEO techniques and further trends that could be done
on a sandbox.
There are at least two pieces here:
1) The blog post should, I think, explain the relationship between the
AOO project and ODF. We have a good story to tell here, both
historically as well as currently. The blog post, though is read by
relatively few people.
2) The Document Freedom Day web page can be more purely about showing
support for Document Freedom. It should be something that someone
wants to share on Facebook. Something with a snappy message, visually
compelling or interesting in some way that you want to let others know
about it. It needs to be worth a click.
-Rob
Open standard has different meanings, which you can see here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_standard
But generally it means 1) It is a published standard, and 2) It does
not require payment of royalties in order to implement it.
There are many standards out there that are not open. For example
MP3 audio has several patents on it, and a device manufacturer that
implements MP3 must pay royalties.
But most of the common web standards, including all those from the
W3C, are open standards. The ODF document format standard is also
open.
OpenOffice also implements some formats that are not open standards.
For example, the old binary format from Microsoft, the doc/xls/ppt
formats. Although these don't require royalty payments, they are not
standards, since they have not been reviewed/approved by any standards
organization. So they are not open standards.
The advantage of open standards is that it encourages competition
since everyone has access to the technical information as well as
rights to implement the standard. This is quite common today, but it
was not always this way. For example, back around 2000 we didn't have
good documentation on Microsoft file formats. And the only
information available had a restriction on it, that it could not be
used by anyone was creating a competing application. So this lead to
lock-in, where the user had to continue buying Microsoft Office in
order to have access to their own documents. It was a lot of hard
work, especially in Europe where the EC got involved, but now open
standards are the norm for document formats.
Regards,
-Rob
Regards,
-Rob
With Warm Regards
V.Kadal Amutham
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On 28 February 2013 01:35, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org
wrote:
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Samer Mansour samer...@gmail.com
wrote:
On 1) Can I suggest we make the graphic change maybe 3-5 days
before
DFD.
Make an earlier blog post letting people know its coming up. We
should go
viral before the day.
I agree. Even though the actual even is on a specific day we'll get
more notice if we start a few days ahead of time.
I could create a small page about AOO and DFD and what it means to
us.
Much like the download page, we can assign the social platform
meta-data
image and text to the one we're promoting AOO with. We could then
link
it
to the early and day-of blog posts.
So the idea would be that visitors could like or share that page to
their social network? I like that idea. Anything
