Fwd: <NO>OOXML: Your action is required: Contact ANSI now!

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From: Benjamin Henrion <[hidden email]> 
Date: Dec 6, 2007 2:42 PM 
Subject: <NO>OOXML: Your action is required: Contact ANSI now! 
To: [hidden email] 



Dear John Abreau, 

You signed the <NO>OOXML petition, a movement backed now by more than 
70.000 supporters worldwide. Our effort to influence the OOXML (Office 
Open XML) standardization process has been an astonishing success so 
far. We aim for at least 100.000 signatures in February when the Geneva 
Ballot Resolution Meeting (BRM) will convene with the aim to resolve 
comments. 

Microsoft is trying by all means to get its "standard" adopted without 
substantial changes despite of its thousands of officially reported 
technical flaws and the pre-existence of ISO 26300:2006 (OpenDocument, 
ODF) as the most appropriate international standard for the 
representation of office documents. 

By next Tuesday Dec 11 2007 delegates from your National Standards Body 
ANSI who will participate in the BRM have to be announced to 
ISO. At least Portugal and Ireland will be represented by Microsoft. In 
many other countries, we know that Microsoft gold partners are proposing 
themselves as heads of national delegations. Many of them will prevail 
if we do not take action. 

Will you let Microsoft represent your country at Geneva and decide the 
future of OOXML? 

You can make a difference and call now ANSI at +1-212-6424900 and help 
us to find out: 

  a. Who will represent ANSI on DIS 29500 at the Ballot 
     Resolution Meeting in Geneva? 
  b. When will the decision on delegates be made and if ANSI is 
     aware of the Dec 11 deadline? 
  c. Does your national delegates for the BRM are independent enough 
     from Microsoft? 
  d. Does the responsible Committee of ANSI for DIS 29500 work 
     on resolution proposals for all the 3500 comments tabled or - if at 
     all - only for the national comments that they submitted? 

Please report your findings by replying to this email, we will update 
this page with the members of each national delegation: 

http://www.noooxml.org/brm

More things that you can do to help our effort against this broken 
standard proposal: 

  1. Join our mailing list and get in touch with many other 
     activists: 
     http://lists.ffii.org/mailman/listinfo/noooxml-club
  2. Become a member of FFII, the worldwide association leading the 
     <NO>OOXML campaign: 
     http://action.ffii.org/member_application
  3. Become a member of DIGISTAN, the organization for the promotion 
     of true digital open standards worldwide; please indicate your 
     interests to: [hidden email] 
  4. Blog about OOXML which shapes the public debate; blogging has been 
     instrumental to our success in Sweden for example; 
  5. support our campaign work with financial means: 
     http://www.noooxml.org/donations

Best regards, 

-- 
Benjamin Henrion <[hidden email]> 
<NO>OOXML Campaign leader 



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John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux &amp; Unix 
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