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Last you heard perhaps. I open a document on GDocs today, and I could
save it on ODF. 

Best,

Charles. 


Le Wed, 17 Jul 2013 12:28:49 +0100 (BST),
Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> a écrit :

Hi :)
Have you used Google-docs recently?  Last i heard, and that was just
a month or so ago, Google-docs stopped allowing people to use ODF.  

FSF supports ODF aswell as supporting LibreOffice and TDF.  They are
separate issues though.  Part of their campaign for ODF includes the
crucial point that it can be used (or is even "the native format" of)
quite a large range of different products. Regards from Tom :)  





________________________________
From: Immanuel Giulea <giulea.immanuel@gmail.com>
To: Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> 
Cc: "marketing@global.libreoffice.org"
<marketing@global.libreoffice.org> Sent: Wednesday, 17 July 2013,
12:13 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Campaign for ODF file
formats?


On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 6:49 AM, Tom Davies
<tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Hi :)
If we were to target certain companies to try to "get them
onboard" with ODF then it might be good to start with our own
"supporters".  Low hanging fruit should be easier, right?
Google-docs doesn't allow people to use ODF!!  Actually i think
ODF usage has improved quite a bit now that MS Office supports
it.  It's really odd to have Google as one of the remaining
barriers!


I am not the biggest fan of Google, but in all fairness ODF is
supported by Google. You can open and edit ODT files. And ODS files.
As for ODP files I can't comment I never made slides on Google, I
prefer Impress.



I think quite a few people do "Ask websites that provide editable
files in Word/Excel/PowerPoint to alternately or additionally
provide versions in an ODF format." and it might be good to let
such people know that there are groups they could join that might
help them be more effective.  OASIS and the FSF are 2 such
organisations that would be great to promote to TDF's mailing
lists.  An announcement now might build-up momentum.  The timing
would be about perfect right now.


FSF supports LibreOffice as a free software, so it would be great.
OASIS is the backer of the OpenDocument Format (I prefer to use the
long name).


Regards from
Tom :)



Other notes:
Other efforts can be done with governments.
For example NATO has adopted ODF as an international file standard,
but not all member countries have this standard themselves.
ODF is also ISO.


Cheers from Montreal
Immanuel








________________________________
From: Charles-H. Schulz <charles.schulz@documentfoundation.org>
To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Wednesday, 17 July 2013, 9:59
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Campaign for ODF file
formats?


Hello Robinson,

Le Tue, 16 Jul 2013 13:29:10 -0400,
Robinson Tryon <bishop.robinson@gmail.com> a écrit :

The PDF Readers campaign[1] recently contacted LibreOffice and
asked us to promote the use of Free Software readers for PDF
file formats. We had a brief discussion[2] on the website
mailing list, and I had the idea that it might be helpful for
LibreOffice if we or the FSFE ran a similar campaign for ODF.

There are several directions such a campaign could take; here
are some of my first thoughts:

1) Promote the use of standardized icons for ODF files, both
when listing files for download, or when listing system
capabilities/allowed upload formats.

(Question: Is there a standardized set of icons for ODF files?)


There was a big debate a long time ago and the answer was that it
would not really work.


2) Promote the use of Free Software for reading/writing ODF file
formats.


I assume you're familiar with the Document Freedom Day? We
participate to it too. But at the risk of playing the devil's
advocate, we promote the use of open standards and ODF, however,
promoting the use of Free Software for ODF file goes exactly
against the initial purpose: open standards are open to everyone,
even proprietary software. That's their value and their
importance.


3) Ask websites that provide ODF files to link to our list of
ODF-compatible Free Software.

our list --> you may rather want to have them link to the
wikipedia entry on ODF.


Following the concept of the PDF Readers campaign, we could get
a domain like 'odf-software.org' and provide HTML and campaign
badges/icons to make it trivial to link to the site.


Yes, but.... why should it be up to us? It could be up to the
OASIS Consortium and other movements to take care of that.  I
sound reluctant here not because I'm not interested but because
it's very important to realize that we are an implementor of ODF.
ODF as such is vendor neutral and while we ought to push the use
of  ODF we cannot "take over" the promotion of ODF.

4) Ask websites that provide editable files in
Word/Excel/PowerPoint to alternately or additionally provide
versions in an ODF format.


Preaching to the choir :-) Actually Wikipedia / Wikimedia already
provide the ability to create ODF documents based on a collection
of articles.

Best,

Charles.




Cheers,
--R

[1] http://pdfreaders.org/
[2]
http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/msg11433.html




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