September 2008
6 posts
ODF workshop update
This is the reminder we sent out to Government Policy Makers.
Just two weeks to go before the 2nd International ODF User Workshop — hosted by South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs in collaboration with the ODF Alliance — kicks off on October 9 in Pretoria. ODF has come of age in 2008. Since the first ODF workshop in Berlin in October 2007, many governments have moved from policy...
open source for business
We are running a programme on open source for business at the insite exhibition http://www.insitex.co.za/
The Following Companies are there, - Novell - Sun Microsystems - i-Kno - Exponant - Custom Cut (Kolab) - Obsidian - RedHat - SITA - Translate.org.za - One Laptop per Child - The Freedom Toaster - Jumping Bean - TurboCash - Linux Holdings
As it is the week of Software freedom day we will...
Human Rights Commission acknowledgement
I received an acknowledgement letter from the Human Rights Commission.
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12/1/3
03 Sep 2008
Dear Sir/Madam
YOUR COMPLAINT
South African Human...
2nd International ODF Workshop - South Africa
We will be hosting the the 2nd International ODF User Workshop in Pretoria, South Africa.
http://www.odfworkshop.org/
Hopefully, we will be able to deliver a workshop that can measure up to the very sucessful workshop that was held in Berlin last year. This year I would be keen to get better African participation.
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Brasilia Protocol - translated
Thanks to Jomar Silva ( http://homembit.com/ ) who blogs on ODF and document format issues in three languages, here is a translation of the document.
BRASÍLIA PROTOCOL
PUBLIC PROTOCOL OF INTENTION FOR ADOPTING OPEN DOCUMENT FORMATS
Art. 1 – In accordance with the recommendations proposed by the Federal Government through the reference document for interoperability standards, e-PING, and in order...
Digital Apartheid ??
After we were not able to get a satisfactory response from the IEC, we have gone ahead and laid a complaint with the Human Rights Commission. Below is the letter we sent last week regarding the site.
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