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Uwe Brauer

According to inquiries made to TSE, the delegation will consist of following two people.

Head is; Dilek Özeren (Dilek Ozeren), she is head of TSE's IT Department
Advisor 1 is; Ayşegül İbrişim (Aysegul Ibrisim) who also works as an expert at TSE IT Department.

Their tickets will probably be paid by TSE. TSE is a governmental organization.

Note: I couldn't find the proper place to send updates for nooxml.org site, and decided the forum was meant for that. if I am mistaken, please point to the appropriate page/email address.

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WTF - We have KDE, GNOME, XFC, Debian, Fedora, Suse, Konqueror, FireFox, Galeon, IceWeasel, OOo Writer, AbiWord, KWord, etc.

50,000 people are sending a clear message that the open source community is for a single unified standard based on what everyone is already using as opposed to the needless proliferation of alternatives offered by Microsoft.

I think the point, "What is the sense of this petition?" It's not/not very good explained on the website.

Peter

. Colombia is *not* a P member: must be normal font
. Costa Rica is *not* a P member: must be normal font
. Cote de l'ivore is a (rushed upgraded) P member: must be bold font
. Jamaica is a (rushed upgraded) P member: must be bold font

Thanks

Its not a "Board Resolution Meeting" - it is a Ballot Resolution Meeting - worth getting the details correct I think.

AspiringPedant

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INOVA Formations has received the "Microsoft Development Partner of the Year 2004". What a nice neutral chairman you have there in Cote d'Ivoire.

By roytam1,

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By rail02000,

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By 不惑仔Boohover,

and one with transparent background,

For Chinese readers, here comes the rest of the relevant discussion thread from Mozilla Taiwan:
http://forum.moztw.org/viewtopic.php?t=19715

 NO to the Microsoft Office format as an ISO standard I ask the national members of ISO to vote "NO" in the ballot of ISO DIS 29500 (Office OpenXML or OOXML format) for the following reasons: # There is **already a standard ISO26300 named Open Document Format (ODF)**: a dual standard adds costs, uncertainty and confusion to industry, government and citizens; # There is **no provable implementation of the OOXML specification**: Microsoft Office 2007 produces a special version of OOXML, not a file format which complies with the OOXML specification; # There is **missing information from the specification** document, for example how to do a **autoSpaceLikeWord95** or **useWord97LineBreakRules**; # More than **10% of the examples mentioned in the proposed standard do not validate** as XML; # There is **no guarantee that anybody can write a software** that fully or partially implements the OOXML specification **without being liable to patent damages or patent license fees by Microsoft**; # This **standard proposal conflicts with other ISO standards**, such as ISO 8601 (Representation of dates and times), ISO 639 (Codes for the Representation of Names and Languages) or ISO/IEC 10118-3 (cryptographic hash); # There is **a bug in the spreadsheet file format which forbids to enter any date before the year 1900**: such bugs affects the OOXML specification as well as software versions such as Microsoft Excel 2000, XP, 2003 or 2007. # This **standard proposal has not been created by bringing together the experience and expertise of all interested parties** (such as the producers, sellers, buyers, users and regulators), but by Microsoft alone. ++ Last signatures 

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Jose Vicente Mondejar