Re: [office] New Co-Chair election

Dear TC,

I am more than happy to hear that the Dutch government is supporting ODF in such great manner and supporting Jos in becoming ODF TC chair.

His long term experiences on the ODF format, standardization and various ODF applications might only be outreached by myself. ;)

To give him my full support, I am hereby stepping back from my candidate. 

I will focus on the work in the "Advanced Document Collaboration" subcommittee and looking forward to a revived work from myself under the flag of CIB in the SC/TC.

Best regards,

Svante Schubert

On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Jos van den Oever <> wrote:
On Tuesday 26 May 2015 16:13:08 Patrick Durusau wrote:

> Our next meeting is on: June 8,  2015 and I would like for us to choose

> and elect a new co-chair to the TC at that meeting.

>

> I know everyone is likely to volunteer at one time and that's ok. We can

> work out the details between now and the meeting.

>

> Please consult with your management and post your willingness to serve

> as the ODF TC co-chair to this mailing list.

Dear TC,

I would also like to offer my services to chair the TC. I've been a member of

the TC for KDE since 2010 and think it is one of the most important standards

in the industry: people generally create two types of documents: email and

office documents. It is of vital importance for good communication and

durability that these documents follow a good standard.

Since October last year I've been employed by the Dutch government after doing

ODF related work for them since 2010. The department that I work at has

graciously allowed me to attend the TC during work hours as a representative

for KDE.

The Dutch government has been recommending ODF as a standard for the exchange

of editable documents since 2008. The department for standards development has

now offered to enable me to spend two days per week on working on and chairing

the TC for at least two years. This is the amount of time per week that Oliver

recommends for the task if the goal is more than fixing errors and importing

existing extensions.

This offer stresses the importance that the government sees in a reliable

standard. In addition, in September, there will another plugfest for ODF. This

one will be hosted in The Hague.

To ensure the future of ODF, I feel the TC should be more outgoing and find

more users and implementors of ODF to join the TC. For the future of the

standard I see a few areas of importance: modularisation, testability,

interoperability with the web and web standards, change tracking, and

standardizing a scripting language. In these topics, the needs of the users of

the standards are most important and the TC should channel these in a sensible

standard that market partners can support well.

Best regards,

Jos van den Oever

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