It's a scandal.
I have a friend who works there, I will inquire.
But my understanding is that each department head there makes their own rules; I know that several departments there run their sites on FLOSS and would not tolerate such a thing.
Sean DALY.
Message du 25/05/06 16:25 De : "Guillaume Yziquel" guillaume.yziquel@free.fr A : discussion@fsfeurope.org Copie à : Objet : 'Word' in France's administration [Fwd: Bourse d'école doctorale]
Hello,
there is nothing new in this message. But it makes me mad. I may be on the wrong list for this, but I apologize.
here is a message I received from the École Doctorale de Sciences Mathématiques de Paris Centre, when applying for grants for doctoral studies.
The french ministry wants documents in 'Word' format.
- nothing in written format,
- nothing in other formats.
I think this is not legal, in regard of the french law.
Sincerely yours,
Guillaume Yziquel.
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Bourse d'école doctorale Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 13:36:00 +0200 From: Michèle Wasse wasse@math.jussieu.fr To: guillaume.yziquel@free.fr References: 446FA155.2060703@free.fr
Madame Michèle Wasse,
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Par ailleurs, serait-il possible que vous me communiquiez la fiche SIREDO sous un autre format que les fichiers Word ? (Sinon, c'est pas grave, mais ça sera probablement moins joli, et ça prendra beaucoup plus de temps).
Non, malheureusement, nous devons rendre les fiches remplies a l'ED dans ce format. Vous devrez donc me faire parvenir les fichiers demandes avant la fin du mois.
Merci. A bientot. Cordialement. Michele WASSE
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