Wow, your a lucky man, you get to hack around with linux all day and<br>get paid, could'nt think of a better job to be doing really :-).<br><br>As for kick starting the lugg, good news, we've formed a linux soc at<br>abertay, so you lot should be able to tagg along to meetings etc etc,<br>when we get the up and going. I purpose and Informal meetup maybe next<br>wensday if people can make it.<br><br>I'll let you know what we've having a meeting.<br><br>As for this Lug, does anyone know how I can update the website with<br>stuff, is the lug head person still AWOL?<br><br>hello are you there????<br><br>;-)....<br><br>laters,<br>Lee<br><br><br><br><br><br><b><i>Martin Habets <errandir_news@mph.eclipse.co.uk></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Hi all,<br><br>Please have a look at the mail below and contribute if possible.<br><br>I have accepted a job in Bristol with ST
Microelectronics as a Software Micro<br>Architect, and will move down there tomorrow. It will be primarilly<br>writing/managing Linux kernel drivers for digital set-top boxes.<br><br>It's been fun while it lasted! Best of luck kick-starting the LUG :)<br><br>Cheers,<br>-- <br>Martin<br>---------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>30 years from now GNU/Linux will be as redundant a term as MERT/UNIX is <br>today. - Martin Habets<br>---------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>--- Alain Williams <addw@phcomp.co.uk> wrote:<br><br>> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:26:46 +0000<br>> From: Alain Williams <addw@phcomp.co.uk><br>> To: members@lists.ukuug.org<br>> Subject: [UKUUG] Please help prevent Microsoft creating a bad ISO standard<br>> <br>> <br>> Summary<br>> The document format used by OpenOffice.org and other applications is an ISO standard.<br>> An open standard has been needed in
this area for many years to allow competition<br>> and for a range of tools to be developed that all use a common data format. Until the<br>> ISO standard all we had (in the main) was de-facto proprietary binary standards.<br>> <br>> The ISO standard is now seen as being under threat from a competing standard proposed by ECMA<br>> based on Microsoft Office Open XML. We think that you may want to object and if you read below,<br>> you can find out why and how.<br>> <br>> You must act by Friday 26 January.<br>> <br>> Detail<br>> <br>> An open standard (ISO/IEC 26300:2006) for document formats is currently <br>> implemented by a number of office software suites, probably the most <br>> notable of which is OpenOffice.org<br>> <br>> Microsoft played little or no part in the ISO/IEC 26300:2006 process and <br>> subsequently made its own proposal to ECMA (European Computer <br>> Manufacturers' Association) for 'Office Open
XML'. That was approved by <br>> ECMA and then submitted to ISO/IEC for ratification as an independent <br>> standard on a fast-track process. A 30-day contradiction period is now <br>> running which terminates on 5th February.<br>> <br>> The fast-track proposal severely overlaps the existing ISO standard and <br>> apparently contains numerous technical issues which deserve serious <br>> consideration. There does not appear to have been any effort at providing <br>> a gap analysis to see where the existing standard does not provide support <br>> for proposals in the ECMA document and hence no corresponding effort to <br>> produce a single combined standard to meet the needs of both parties. The <br>> presence of more than one standard covering the same areas will inevitably <br>> lead to confusion amongst users of standards.<br>> <br>> Any voting national body (of which the British Standards Institute, BSI, <br>> is one) can
register a contradiction with ISO/IEC to cause the fast-track <br>> proposal to be blocked and for a resolution phase to begin.<br>> <br>> We have written to the BSI on behalf of UKUUG requesting that they <br>> register a contradiction. It is our belief that the more people who write <br>> to them, the more the effect will be.<br>> <br>> We urge any UKUUG member with an interest in this area to read <br>> http://www.grokdoc.net/index.php/EOOXML_objections and then to register <br>> their view with the Chairman of the BSI panel looking into this area: <br>> Francis Cave <francis@franciscave.com>, objections MUST be received<br>> by 26th January to have effect.<br>> <br>> To object to the fast-track procedure is not necessarily to object to the <br>> proposal itself but it will at least cause a pause for thought and may <br>> give time for more detailed scrutiny of the 6,000 page document.<br>> <br>> If you do wish to
object, please read the objections document and then <br>> write to Francis Cave (copy-and-paste from this letter would be a bad <br>> plan) requesting that the BSI formally object to the fast-track proposal.<br>> <br>> -- <br>> Alain Williams<br>> UKUUG Chairman<br>> #include <std_disclaimer.h><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br>dundee@lists.lug.org.uk http://dundee.lug.org.uk<br>https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee<br>Chat on IRC, #tlug on dundee.lug.org.uk<br></std_disclaimer.h></francis@franciscave.com></addw@phcomp.co.uk></addw@phcomp.co.uk></blockquote><br><p> 
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