On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:51:39 +0100 "Graham Taylor" graham@openforumeurope.org wrote:
gt> Georg, meant to ask what else came out of the meeting?
Not too many concrete conclusions.
There was a general understanding that we should focus on the impact of Open Standards on "development" and "mainstreaming capacity building" for our activities. So these could be additional themes for submissions by the DCOS, which we'll be working on.
Deadline for such submissions is 31 July 2007.
Independent of the official IGF, but related: TACD is planning a workshop on Open Standards for the consumer groups in London around 17-18 September. Sun is planning a workshop on Open Standards the day before the IGF in Brazil.
Also people agreed that the IGF might be a good opportunity to present and promote Certified Open -- so I should be able to do something about that, if we can manage to get our act together in time. My main issue at the moment is travel funding to get to Rio, so I'm working on that.
Regards, Georg
P.S. Off-the-record-note: Susy Struble was talking quite a bit on how the MS-OOXML fight was over, and how Microsoft had won and that they'll also succeed with all the other formats and such.
Only after some counterweight by myself [including some (non targeted) remarks on how I knew that certain companies had deals with Microsoft to not go against MS-OOXML, and how that was not helpful and it would be better if such companies would speak out against MS-OOXML to undo the "IBM vs MS" spin] did she become less negative in her statements.
Overall atmosphere was very friendly, but hearing Sun tell the DCOS that it was not worth going up against MS-OOXML was odd, indeed.