Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open formats in UK gov?

2014-01-30 Thread Alan Lord
Interesting Proposal from the Cabinet Office: http://standards.data.gov.uk/proposal/sharing-collaborating-government-documents Standards based documents *only*. txt, csv, html4/5, ODF. :-D Al On 29/01/14 21:00, Andres wrote: I guess this is not news for some of you but thought I'd mention

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open formats in UK gov?

2014-01-30 Thread Nigel Verity
. There could well come a time when government IT managers are in a position to choose the right OS for the job. Nige Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open formats in UK gov? From: a75...@alumni.tecnun.es Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 06:32:10 + To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com; nigelver...@hotmail.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open formats in UK gov?

2014-01-30 Thread Avi Greenbury
Nigel Verity wrote: I think that standardising on open formats is a significant step but it is a long, long way from seeing the likes of LibreOffice running on the typical civil servant's desktop. I don't think that's going to happen. I think office suites will be in web-browsers before LO

[ubuntu-uk] Open formats in UK gov?

2014-01-29 Thread Andres
I guess this is not news for some of you but thought I'd mention it. Baby steps it seems: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/29/uk-government-plans-switch-to-open-source-from-microsoft-office-suite -- Enviado desde mi teléfono con K-9 Mail.-- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open formats in UK gov?

2014-01-29 Thread Pete Smout
On 29/01/14 21:00, Andres wrote: I guess this is not news for some of you but thought I'd mention it. Baby steps it seems: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/29/uk-government-plans-switch-to-open-source-from-microsoft-office-suite Hi all, As a UK taxpayer, can I just say

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open formats in UK gov?

2014-01-29 Thread Andres
Pete Smout smoutp...@gmail.com escribió: On 29/01/14 21:00, Andres wrote: I guess this is not news for some of you but thought I'd mention it. Baby steps it seems: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/29/uk-government-plans-switch-to-open-source-from-microsoft-office-suite Hi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open formats in UK gov?

2014-01-29 Thread John Oliver
Yes, I saw something about this on the BBC News android application around 30 minutes ago. IT does look interesting. I think it's something that's been postulated for some time, mind you. With the advent of the Government Digital Service (https://gds.blog.gov.uk/) this sort of stuff has been

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open formats in UK gov?

2014-01-29 Thread Nigel Verity
I think that standardising on open formats is a significant step but it is a long, long way from seeing the likes of LibreOffice running on the typical civil servant's desktop. Without exception, the big UK government FM contracts for IT provision and support are all let to companies with a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open formats in UK gov?

2014-01-29 Thread Andres
On 29 de enero de 2014 23:24:16 GMT, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: I think that standardising on open formats is a significant step but it is a long, long way from seeing the likes of LibreOffice running on the typical civil servant's desktop. Without exception, the big UK