From: MJ Ray mjr@phonecoop.coop To: discussion@fsfeurope.org Subject: FSFE ignoring OOXML? Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:22:59 +0100
There's just been a call for help on a debian mailing list. In amongst it, it includes the phrase "I did not get a response from the Free Software Foundation Europe." What's happened?
From bounce-debian-project=mjr=phonecoop.coop@lists.debian.org Tue Apr 24 06:41:23 2007 Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:41:08 +0200 From: "Torsten Werner" twerner@debian.org Reply-To: mail.twerner@googlemail.com To: debian-project@lists.debian.org Subject: ballot period for ECMA 376 / DIS 29500 (aka OOXML) List-Id: <debian-project.lists.debian.org>
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If you are interested in preventing that scenario please take action *now*. Contact your national ISO bodies and tell them your interests. In Germany you can become a member of DIN's working group. I can explain the details if someone is interested. Maybe that is possible in other countries, too.
Hi all,
my name is Davide Dozza and I'm president of a new and small association which has the scope of supporting OpenOffice.org, Open Formats and more in general Free Software. I am also an FSFE Fellow.
Some days ago I asked Stefano Maffulli if it was possible to get some financial support from FSFE in order to subscribe and partecipate to OpenXML discussion inside the UNINFO, the italian national standardization body.
There was the concrete opportunity to influence the Italy's vote about Fasttrack. Unfortunately the Georg Greve answer was negative.
I was quite disappointed about. At least I expected an answer like, "yes, not for the whole, but we can contribute with few money. How much do you need?". But I didn't expect a "No, we don't have such sum available. We need to raise more funds, in particular in Italy. We are looking for volunteers.".
The cost for the subscription fee was not so much. Just 2.000 Euros. A lot for a 20-people association, but not a lot for an organization which receives 240.000 euros of Incomes and spends 31.000 Euros for travels.
As I think the OpenXML fasttrack is *very very* important for the future of free software I really wonder to know how Felloship fees are spent. More in general, *who* decides how felloships fee are spent? As I just received an answer from Greve, how are the decisions taken about?
Best regards
Davide Dozza
P.S: fortunately, thanks to a great friend, we managed to collect the necessary funds to pay UNINFO fee. Now we can vote for or against OpenXML fasttrack.
A good starting point for more information is http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070123071154671 .
Cheers, Torsten
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