Re: [libreoffice-marketing] UK gov open standards survey

Ian Lynch <ianrlynch -AT- gmail.com>

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:32:42 +0000

Be a little careful. Leave things like .doc as optional because it is not going to be practical to ban it. Open Office XML I'd recommend "should not be used" because .doc can then be used for MS Office users instead. odf should be mandatory. Then they would have to make documents available in odf formats and it would be optional also to provide .doc and they should not use MOOX. That would be practically possible since most if not all documents are made available as .doc. The effect would be to give odf a high profile (and click priority too) . If we state something that is in practice impossible to implement it would be ignored and I think given the state of the user base only providing odf would probably be seen as not practical since a lot of existing documents in .doc would not convert that well. Similar for spreadsheets and presentations. odf mandatory XLS, ppt optional. graphics - jpg, png and svg. Really those cover all the possibilities anyone really needs so make them mandatory and other optional. On 23 March 2011 10:43, Sophie Gautier <gautier.sophie@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

Tell them the standards they need ;)
http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/content/uk-government-open-standards-survey

Kind regards
Sophie
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