2007/11/13, Stefan Champailler schampailler@skynet.be:
Hello,
I'm trying to gather information about the people who are working in the field of FLOSS in Belgium and also related to OpenOffice . I do this with the hope of finding a little place where I could help FLOSS to thrive, preferably close to my job @ SMALS.
Good idea.
As a member of SMAL, as I wrote earlier, I strongly suggest that you contact the people at http://opengov.be/ who work in public sector and try to promote, use and share experience about FLOSS in these institutions and especially Oliver Schneider oliver.schneider@fedict.be (to whom I spoke about you)
Does anybody know what's that guy :
is doing exactly ?
yes, Peter Vandenabeele is a long time supporter of free software in Belgium, the founder of a company that he now sold, who developped embedded linux. Peter has been hired by FEDICT to work on the ODF format , defend and promote it.
Where he was apparently talking for Fedict.
possible indeed
A rumor told me that the ISO committee that voted "nothing" for OOXML had only one gov member, somebody from Fedict. Is that guy the ISO one ?
yes; What is that rumor ?
I attended this Belgian NBN meeting that had to prepare the Belgian decision to send to ISO. We are not supposed to speak about its details, but I was not alone representing the free software and open standards.
(btw, I also heard that the Belgian ISO vote was somewhat not democratic, but that's just a rumor, anybody can clear the FUD ?)
what do you mean by "non democratic" ?
Regards,
Nicolas