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
congradulations to all. this is another stinging slap on the faces of those who feel that typicle managers and businessmen sitting in big AC cubicles having gone through all the management education are the only people who can affect the world and not the community. so the community has made it clear that with no selfish gain for any individual as such, huge marketing gurus can be stopped from attempting to rule the world in the pretention of "just doing good business ". afterall it is the community which has created such a positive impact for the public good. this is indeed a major win for the community and we all must thank the frontline freedom fighters who did not allow ooxml to become an unwanted standard imposed on every one. the worthless wheed has been pulled out at least from india, thanks to nagarjun venki etc. I know venky personally and I happen to work with nagarjun in the HBCSE lab of TIFR as a project fellow. we have often discussed this issue for hours and before this email I was fortunate to hear the good news from his mouth. I have seen him working for long hours and taking all the stress for this day. and to the community I have a message. "those who either still don't know what is all this about ooxml or who feel that they won't get affected, Please do some reading on this issue ". happy hacking. kk
On 20/03/2008, Raj Mathur raju@linux-delhi.org wrote:
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
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