April 2008
9 posts
weekly round-up
my round-up of last weeks activities, on tuesday last week I attended the Government IT officers Council ( GITOC) and presented the minutes of the last OSS and open standards meeting. On Wednesday we met with our standards body to discuss ways in which they could assist in developing interoperability standards for government. On Thursday I met with Redhat representatives and they shared some...
ODF is now a South African standard
On Friday STANSA approved ODF as a South African standard, this a week after Brazil made ODF a national standard as well. Tectonic have covered the story on STANSA SANS 26300, which is what the South African standard is called.
last weeks activities
I had a promising meeting with Microsoft employees on Tuesday, we mainly discussed interoperability and the Microsoft interoperability council. I have agreed to participate on the council and look forward to making some input to that council. I made the point that we would like to see interoperability rather than integration with selected partners. I was surprised by the number of times they...
The week that was
Keeping this blog current is still a challenge for me. A quick review of some of the activities that took place last week that would be of interest to members of the OSS work-group and others ( I am hoping that this is a way of keeping members of the work-group informed without spamming them). Tuesday I attended the Government IT Officers executive meeting and gave feedback on the OSS...
Speech coverage
The minister’s speech continues to get coverage in the the press and in various blogs. The latest is an article by Edwin Naidu titled “Microsoft’s mission to make money in a mouse click”, I have no idea of how to react to it but Prof. Derek Keats has responded to it in his blog.
ISO/IEC DIS 29500 Approved
It’s official, http://www.iso.org/iso/pressrelease.htm?refid=Ref1123 DIS 29500 has been approved. South Africa was amongst the 10 countries that voted to disapprove, the majority (61 countries) voted to approve and 16 abstained. I wonder what this says about us