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.
Does anybody know what's that guy :
is doing exactly ? He seems to promote OO quite alot.
He gave a talk here :
http://nl.opendocsociety.org/oprichtingsbijeenkomst
Where he was apparently talking for Fedict. 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 ?
(btw, I also heard that the Belgian ISO vote was somewhat not democratic, but that's just a rumor, anybody can clear the FUD ?)
Interestingly, another guy was with him at that opensociety event : Patrick Durusau who (according to his homepage) was part of the OpenDocumentFoundation...
Any links ?
(tell me if I'm off topic...)
stF
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
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)
I'll do.
However, as Smals is merely the executing arm of other organisation, it's difficult for them (I guess) to be an actor. I guess the aim of Smals is simply to build up resources and competences in order to satisfy the demand.
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 ?
(disclaimer : I'm just trying to know a bit more about what happened and therefore, it means I don't understand much about things I'm talking about, There's no intention of harming anybody or any organisation).
Rumor (a friend working at the "communauté française @ Jambes) told me that the ISO committee director (if there's such a person) asked that he wanted a absolute majority vote. Since this could not happen because of the composition of the jury, the full majority was not reached and therefore an "abstain" was pronounced. That is, if the vote happened in a regular fashion, a "yes" (or a "no") may have been reached.
Now if you can't speak about the details, then so be it. The rumor will stay a rumor :-)
stF