[OSGeo Africa] Re: [Foss4g2008loc] SA to adopt ODF and GML as government standards

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi Gavin and All,

Nice to hear about what's happening in
South Africa vis-a-vis Open Standards.

Just to mention that I have subscribed to
the FOSS4G2008loc list. Hope I could be
of help in someway and look foward to
FOSS4G2008.

Regards

Venka

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Prof. Venkatesh Raghavan
Osaka City University
Japan

Gavin Fleming wrote:
> Hi all
> 
>  
> 
> In line with its Open Source / Open Standards policy, the SA government
> has made ODF, GML and various other open standards national standards
> for all government communication. See message and article below. The
> Tectonic article has a link to the official pdf with all the detail. 
> 
>  
> 
> Gavin
> 
>  
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: Quinn Reynolds 
> Sent: 26 October 2007 09:45 AM
> Subject: MLUG - For interest: SA to adopt ODF as government standard
> 
>  
> 
> ODF is the "Open Document Format", a file standard for spreadsheets,
> word processor documents, and other office productivity applications.
> It's similar to Microsoft's .xls, .doc, etc formats, only open for
> anyone to implement :-)
> 
> ODF is the primary document format of the open source OpenOffice suite.
> 
> http://tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1838
> 
> Cheers,
> Quinn
> 
> 
> 
> 
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