Re: 'Word' in France's administration [Fwd: Bourse d'école doctorale]

[Sean DALY]

It's a scandal.

I have a friend who works there, I will inquire.

But my understanding is that each department head there makes their own rules; I know that several departments there run their sites on FLOSS and would not tolerate such a thing.

Sean DALY.




> Message du 25/05/06 16:25
> De : "Guillaume Yziquel" <guillaume.yziquel at free.fr>
> A : discussion at fsfeurope.org
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> Objet : 'Word' in France's administration [Fwd: Bourse d'école doctorale]
> 
> Hello,
> 
> there is nothing new in this message. But it makes me mad. I may be on 
> the wrong list for this, but I apologize.
> 
> here is a message I received from the École Doctorale de Sciences 
> Mathématiques de Paris Centre, when applying for grants for doctoral 
> studies.
> 
> The french ministry wants documents in 'Word' format.
> 
>   - nothing in written format,
>   - nothing in other formats.
> 
> I think this is not legal, in regard of the french law.
> 
> Sincerely yours,
> 
> Guillaume Yziquel.
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Bourse d'école doctorale
> Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 13:36:00 +0200
> From: Michèle Wasse <wasse at math.jussieu.fr>
> To: guillaume.yziquel at free.fr
> References: <446FA155.2060703 at free.fr>
> 
> >Madame Michèle Wasse,
> >
> >[...]
> >
> 
> [...]
> 
> >
> >[...]
> >
> >Par ailleurs, serait-il possible que vous me communiquiez la fiche 
> >SIREDO sous un autre format que les fichiers Word ? (Sinon, c'est 
> >pas grave, mais ça sera probablement moins joli, et ça prendra 
> >beaucoup plus de temps).
> 
> Non, malheureusement, nous devons rendre les fiches remplies a l'ED
> dans ce format.
> Vous devrez donc me faire parvenir les fichiers demandes avant la fin du 
> mois.
> 
> Merci. A bientot. Cordialement. Michele WASSE
> 
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