Re: [odf-adoption] Promote ODF in Email Signatures

[Charles Schulz <charles-h.schulz@arsaperta.com>]

Hello Carol,

Yours is nice. I was thinking about taking some words from Simon Phipps
that strucked a lot of people:

"Fight against corporate Alzheimer. Use OpenDocument Format or go to
http://opendocument.xml.org for more information."

Best,
Charles.

Carol Geyer a écrit :
>  Now that we have OpenDocument XML.org, should we revisit this idea of
> promoting OpenDocument in email signatures? Perhaps something along the lines
> of:
>
> __________________________________________
>
> Please avoid sending me any data attachments that are in proprietary formats.
> See http://opendocument.xml.org for information on the OpenDocument OASIS
> Standard (ISO 23600). 
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martha J Mealy [mailto:mealym@us.ibm.com] 
> Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 8:42 PM
> To: odf-adoption@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [odf-adoption] Promote ODF in Email Signatures
>
>
> In the meantime, a solution might be to point to the Wikipedia OpenDocument
> format.   Something like this: 
> Please avoid sending me any data attachments that are in a proprietary format.
> See Wikipedia's OpenDocument entry for more information and a list of
> applications using the OpenDocument standard (ISO 23600) 
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Martha J. Mealy
> Strategic Marketing for Lotus Software - Industrial Sector
> IBM Software Group
> mealym@us.ibm.com
> office phone: (503) 342-5519
> mobile phone: (503) 720-7963
> office: Portland, Oregon 
>
> Carol wrote: 
>
> I just received a message from a person who included this statement in her
> email
> signature:
>
> _______________________________________________________________________________
> _
> _
> See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
>
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> I would *love* to use something similar, if we could provide a link to a page
> that was pro-OpenDocument and not an obvious slam at Word or commercial
> software. It could just be a few educational paragraphs. We might include some
> links to all the options for ODF-compliant software, to make it clear that ODF
> is *not* synonymous with OpenOffice. If we use product links, we'd have to
> include a disclaimer, "OASIS does not endorse or certify compliance of any of
> the above products...links are provided for informational purposes
> only...readers are encouraged to evaluate all products independently..."
>
> Would it be worth the Committee's time to craft a few paragraphs along these
> lines? We could publish them on XML.org on behalf of the TC, and encourage
> everyone to incorporate them into their email signatures.
>
>
> Carol
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> Carol Geyer
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> OASIS
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-- 
Charles-H.Schulz,
Associé / Associate,
Ars Aperta.