On Thursday 20 Mar 2008, Nagarjuna G. wrote:
India's BIS votes against ooxml. out of 19 members, five of them did not attend the meeting, one of them abstained, five voted in favor of ooxml, and the rest voted against.
Major win for the community, and I'd like to extend personal thanks to the 3 people who I know have been putting in long hours into this effort with no gain:
- Nagarjuna - Venky (of Red Hat) - Prabir Purkayastha
That isn't an exhaustive list by any means, and it'd be great if you guys could enumerate the other people who have contributed to this win.
A request to the community: if you have the time and the inclination, please take a few minutes and send a personal mail thanking these front-line warriors. If we can come up with the list of organisations who voted against OOXML and a contact person, a mail to each of those organisations wouldn't go amiss either.
I'm convinced that if Prabir, Venky, Nagarjuna and the others in the team hadn't worked like dogs for months on end, today we'd be seeing a proprietary standard for all our documents. Must feel good to see all that work pay off, huh? :)
Regards,
-- Raju