Fwd: FFII puts up a prize in fight against Microsoft Office standardisation

2007-07-07 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Hi, I do not often just forward an email I got from some other mailing list, but I thought this was both significant and relates strongly to what happened in Massachusetts. The prize money is about 3270 US dollars at today's exchange rates. md Forwarded Message From: Janet

Petition against OOXML

2007-07-07 Thread Ted Roche
Bill McGonigle blogged [1]: You can sign a petition here [2] asking the national representatives to ISO to not approve Microsoft's OpenOfficeXML (nothing to do with OpenOffice, of course - just named to seed confusion) application for standards-approval by ISO. The most absurd part of the

Re: BarCampManchester 7/28

2007-07-07 Thread Bill Sconce
On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 20:38:55 -0400 Alex Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 11:25 -0400, Ted Roche wrote: kenta wrote: Anyone here attending BarCampManchester (http://barcampmanchester.org/) or maybe previously attended one of these events? I thought Alex

Re: FFII puts up a prize in fight against Microsoft Office standardisation

2007-07-07 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 11:56 -0400, Thomas Charron wrote: On 7/7/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I do not often just forward an email I got from some other mailing list, but I thought this was both significant and relates strongly to what happened in Massachusetts.

Re: BarCampManchester 7/28

2007-07-07 Thread Nikkiana H.
I've been to one of the spin-off camps, DrupalCampNYC back in January (going to my second DrupalCampNYC next weekend) and I was really impressed with how educational that was, and my husband and I decided we wanted to get involved with something BarCamp like back home so we've gotten involved