[ox-en] 15thApril,Bangalore: Candle Light Vigil for Document Freedom
- From: Anivar Aravind <anivar.aravind gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:33:27 +0530
Dear Friends,
Recently International Standardisation Organisation (ISO) is approved
Microsoft's broken standard OOXML( with 1000s of Technical Flaws) also
as a Document standard. India's Vote was No to this standard that
creates vendor lock-in and prevents interoperability. Micro$oft played
a lot of nasty games to get the approval from member countries. In this
context we are Conducting a Candle Light Vigil foor Document Freedom
Demanding bureau of indian standard (BIS) to appeal ISO's Decision of
approving the banana standard OOXML
Venue : In Front of Townhall, Corporation Circle , Bangalore
Date : 15th April 6.00pm
The programme is planned as a starting point for
various events & awareness campaigns on Document freedom .
Please use following wiki page for organising the programme
http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Campaign_for_Document_Freedom
Also add your name on campaigners section
Contact : Praveen A <pravi.a at gmail.com> [PHONE NUMBER REMOVED]
Anivar Aravind <anivar at movingrepublic dot org> [PHONE NUMBER REMOVED]/ [PHONE NUMBER REMOVED]
080 23435606
Why Document Freedom?
We live in an age in which paper documents increasingly get replaced
by electronic records. Document freedom is fundamental for your
documents to outlive the application you are currently using and
allows you to choose and change applications freely.
Document Freedom and Democracy
Electronic records kept today include records of your government, such
as tax and legal records or minutes of parliamentary proceedings.
Making sure that such records remain in the control of the government
is essential for a functioning democracy. The same is true for all
interactions between citizens and their government, which should never
depend on monopolies or on the proprietary product of a single company.
How to achieve Document Freedom?
Make a stand by saving your documents in ODF today. If your application
does not support ODF, get one of the ODF supported applications like
OpenOffice.org, Staroffice, NeoOffice, KOffice, AbiWord, Google Docs,
IBM Lotus Symphony etc
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Anivar Aravind
Information Architect, ICT Consultant
Phone: [PHONE NUMBER REMOVED] / [PHONE NUMBER REMOVED]
7/1 , First Floor, First Cross
Ankappa Block, J.C Nagar
Bangalore-560006, INDIA
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Web-Site: http://www.oekonux.org/
Organization: http://www.oekonux.de/projekt/
Contact: projekt oekonux.de