Former Norwegian Chairman calls for a demonstration http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-52058/former-norwegian-chairman-calls-for-a-demonstration Posts in the discussion thread "Former Norwegian Chairman calls for a demonstration" - After the vote in Norway moved from a disapproval in the national standardisation committee to a political approval of the OOXML format, upset members of the committee go political and organize a demonstration in Oslo. http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-52058#post-141569 Re: Norwegian Chairman calls for a demonstration http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-52058/former-norwegian-chairman-calls-for-a-demonstration#post-141569 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:37:04 +0000 pieterh 99 Update

Rafael Bonifaz sends us a link to a Norwegian report of the protest:

Report from the http://www.digi.no/php/art.php?id=519531

With something that is near to an English translation.

]]> http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-52058#post-140368 Norwegian Chairman calls for a demonstration http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-52058/former-norwegian-chairman-calls-for-a-demonstration#post-140368 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:37:00 +0000 arebenti 36024 Geir Isene announces a demonstration in Norway which will coincidences with the ISO SC34 meeting in the Nordic nation. International members of the SC34 are supposed to convene in Oslo for a meeting.

Steve Pepper, the former Chairman of the Norwegian committee responsible for deciding the Norwegian vote on OOXML, is calling for a demonstration to take place outside the building where SC34, the ISO committee that has been landed with OOXML, is holding its spring plenary.

The demonstration will take place outside Håndverkeren, Rosenkrantzgate 7, Oslo, Norway, on Wednesday April 9 at 12.00.

Among the slogans are

  • Ecma: Withdraw OOXML!

I wonder if a wiser call would be the demand to remove the A-liaision status of ECMA International. Looks like some persons will take their lunch break on the streets.

Update: This group has also posted a complaint to the Norwegian Minister of Science regarding the way Standard Norway has been handling the OOXML case. Only ODF is accepted as a document standard in Norway.

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