[Ecommerce] Invite for Thursday Feb 16: Open Document Format discussion at CPTech

[Manon Ress]

Sorry for cross listing

Public Brown Bag Lunch: "Open Document Format (ODF), What's in it for
Consumers?"

A year ago, Eric Kriss, Secretary of Administration and Finance in
Massachusetts, was one of the first government official in the US
that publicly linked support to open document formats to a public
policy purpose and to declare that it was imperative that public
document be accessible to all now and in the future.  "We cannot have
our public documents locked up in some kind of proprietary format,
perhaps unreadable in the future, or subject to a proprietary system
license that restricts access" he said at the Massachusetts Software
Council annual meeting.

What happened since then and what is the state of play less than a
year before the ODF implementation date of january 2007?  Why should
public interest groups care about it?  Join us for an informal
discussion with representatives from consumer groups, public interest
groups, industry associations, academics, libraries etc. Bring your
lunch and more questions.  We'll have coffee, sodas and hopefully
some answers.

Thursday February 16, 2006
12:30-2:30
1621 Connecticut Ave, NW
Washington DC 20009
+202 332 2679
contact: manon.ress@cptech.org or joy.spencer@cptech.org

Invited include:  Ed Mierzinski (USPIRG), Jeanine Kenney, (Consumers
Union), Paul Hyland (CPSR), Jeff Kaplan (Open ePolicy Group,
Berkman), Will Rodger (CCIA) Sam Hiser (Principal, Hiser +
Adelstein), James Love (CPTech), David LeDuc (SIIA) and a
representative from the library community....

Manon

More at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/newsblog/blog.php?ID=1961
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/02cd6280-8ce9-11da-9daf-0000779e2340.html
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office
http://www.mass.gov/eoaf/open_formats_comments.html
http://opendocumentfellowship.org/Main/HomePage
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/epolicy/roadmap.pdf


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Manon Anne Ress
manon.ress@cptech.org,
www.cptech.org

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