Hi JG
thanks for your input. usually this kind of subjects are discussed on the discussion list (discussion@fsfeurope.org) .
Nevertheless I think this is a good idea. It could as well be a link-list to such pages we recommend, since I'm shure that such lists exist already somewhere (you know probably better than I). As I saw the FSF in the US has a kind of a collection of software listed. - So Document-Formats are still missing.
Let's see what others mean...
cheers Immanuel
On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 19:14 +0100, J. Grant wrote:
Hi, I wonder if FSFE would be interested in listing certified open, accessible data formats?
I think it would be good to have a definitive approved list people could refer to, formats such as Vorbis, Theora and OpenOffice.org could be listed etc.
Equally proprietary formats could be listed and justification could be provided for not using them instead of open accessible formats.
With this we can provide links to Free Software which supports these accessible data formats as well.
What does everyone think? (Is this the correct list to discuss on?)
Kind regards JG
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On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 19:14 +0100, J. Grant wrote:
Hi, I wonder if FSFE would be interested in listing certified open, accessible data formats?
Here in germany there is a similar project. They go the other way: they provide open letters, which try to describe why special formats should NOT be used. So whenever you get a file which you can't use, you can point the sender to the open letter... Of course the letters also show the alternatives.
http://www.deshalbfrei.org/ (language: German)
It is a wiki system, so everybody can add his thoughts.
"Andres K. Foerster" list@AKFoerster.de wrote:
On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 19:14 +0100, J. Grant wrote:
Hi, I wonder if FSFE would be interested in listing certified open, accessible data formats?
Here in germany there is a similar project. [...] http://www.deshalbfrei.org/ (language: German)
There is the beginning of an English-language listing at the Information Accessibility Initiative wiki on http://www.okfn.org/iai/wiki/FormatRegistry
Can these projects be brought together and how?