A big win for ODF, the EU Commission DG CONNECT has added the ODS template to the CRA Guidance feedback process, reacting promptly in a positive way to our request.
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A big win for ODF, the EU Commission DG CONNECT has added the ODS template to the CRA Guidance feedback process, reacting promptly in a positive way to our request. Kudos to DG CONNECT.
IMPORTANT ODF Template added to CRA Guidance feedback - TDF Community Blog
Last week, the European Commission published the draft guidelines for the CRA and opened a comment session open to all stakeholders until the end of March. In its first version, the consultation page allowed users to download the draft guidelines and related communication in PDF format, and the feedback template in proprietary XLSX format only. For this reason, we protested through a post and an open letter to the European Commission, asking that the feedback template also be provided in the open and standard ODS format. Within 24 hours, officials from DG CONNECT—responsible for the CRA—responded positively to our request and added the template in ODS format. This is an important first step towards the interoperability that proprietary formats do not allow, and indeed seek to limit by making the DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX formats increasingly different from a standard with the addition of unnecessary complexities. To all those individuals who insist on considering OOXML a standard because it has been approved by ISO, and to all software that supports OOXML by using it as the default format, we remind you that you are going against not only your own interests but also the interests of all citizens of the
TDF Community Blog (blog.documentfoundation.org)
@libreoffice @ODS @ODF @digitalsovereignty @digitalfreedom
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A big win for ODF, the EU Commission DG CONNECT has added the ODS template to the CRA Guidance feedback process, reacting promptly in a positive way to our request. Kudos to DG CONNECT.
IMPORTANT ODF Template added to CRA Guidance feedback - TDF Community Blog
Last week, the European Commission published the draft guidelines for the CRA and opened a comment session open to all stakeholders until the end of March. In its first version, the consultation page allowed users to download the draft guidelines and related communication in PDF format, and the feedback template in proprietary XLSX format only. For this reason, we protested through a post and an open letter to the European Commission, asking that the feedback template also be provided in the open and standard ODS format. Within 24 hours, officials from DG CONNECT—responsible for the CRA—responded positively to our request and added the template in ODS format. This is an important first step towards the interoperability that proprietary formats do not allow, and indeed seek to limit by making the DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX formats increasingly different from a standard with the addition of unnecessary complexities. To all those individuals who insist on considering OOXML a standard because it has been approved by ISO, and to all software that supports OOXML by using it as the default format, we remind you that you are going against not only your own interests but also the interests of all citizens of the
TDF Community Blog (blog.documentfoundation.org)
@libreoffice @ODS @ODF @digitalsovereignty @digitalfreedom
@libreoffice Were those @ at the end intended to be # ?
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A big win for ODF, the EU Commission DG CONNECT has added the ODS template to the CRA Guidance feedback process, reacting promptly in a positive way to our request. Kudos to DG CONNECT.
IMPORTANT ODF Template added to CRA Guidance feedback - TDF Community Blog
Last week, the European Commission published the draft guidelines for the CRA and opened a comment session open to all stakeholders until the end of March. In its first version, the consultation page allowed users to download the draft guidelines and related communication in PDF format, and the feedback template in proprietary XLSX format only. For this reason, we protested through a post and an open letter to the European Commission, asking that the feedback template also be provided in the open and standard ODS format. Within 24 hours, officials from DG CONNECT—responsible for the CRA—responded positively to our request and added the template in ODS format. This is an important first step towards the interoperability that proprietary formats do not allow, and indeed seek to limit by making the DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX formats increasingly different from a standard with the addition of unnecessary complexities. To all those individuals who insist on considering OOXML a standard because it has been approved by ISO, and to all software that supports OOXML by using it as the default format, we remind you that you are going against not only your own interests but also the interests of all citizens of the
TDF Community Blog (blog.documentfoundation.org)
@libreoffice @ODS @ODF @digitalsovereignty @digitalfreedom
@libreoffice However, the ODS template link takes you to a pdf download that actually is not working.
They should be warned, I guess? -
A big win for ODF, the EU Commission DG CONNECT has added the ODS template to the CRA Guidance feedback process, reacting promptly in a positive way to our request. Kudos to DG CONNECT.
IMPORTANT ODF Template added to CRA Guidance feedback - TDF Community Blog
Last week, the European Commission published the draft guidelines for the CRA and opened a comment session open to all stakeholders until the end of March. In its first version, the consultation page allowed users to download the draft guidelines and related communication in PDF format, and the feedback template in proprietary XLSX format only. For this reason, we protested through a post and an open letter to the European Commission, asking that the feedback template also be provided in the open and standard ODS format. Within 24 hours, officials from DG CONNECT—responsible for the CRA—responded positively to our request and added the template in ODS format. This is an important first step towards the interoperability that proprietary formats do not allow, and indeed seek to limit by making the DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX formats increasingly different from a standard with the addition of unnecessary complexities. To all those individuals who insist on considering OOXML a standard because it has been approved by ISO, and to all software that supports OOXML by using it as the default format, we remind you that you are going against not only your own interests but also the interests of all citizens of the
TDF Community Blog (blog.documentfoundation.org)
@libreoffice @ODS @ODF @digitalsovereignty @digitalfreedom
ODF is open and royalty-free.
No vendor controls your documents.
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@libreoffice However, the ODS template link takes you to a pdf download that actually is not working.
They should be warned, I guess?@tachan I am chatting with them - I get the same result but not everyone does and neither of us can work out why. If you remove the PDF suffix is it actually an ODS?
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@tachan I am chatting with them - I get the same result but not everyone does and neither of us can work out why. If you remove the PDF suffix is it actually an ODS?
@libreoffice@webmink @libreoffice
Ah, yes, correct! Changing .pdf into .ods makes the trick.
Anyway, my first thought was that the file was corrupt, because the browser tries to render the pdf with no success at all, obviously. -
@tachan I am chatting with them - I get the same result but not everyone does and neither of us can work out why. If you remove the PDF suffix is it actually an ODS?
@libreoffice@webmink @libreoffice
I should say that it's something you can't do in the URL, that doesn't work (file not found, etc.).
You have to download the PDF and rename then, or after the download is completed. -
@tachan I am chatting with them - I get the same result but not everyone does and neither of us can work out why. If you remove the PDF suffix is it actually an ODS?
@libreoffice@webmink @tachan @libreoffice Mimetypes strike again?
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A big win for ODF, the EU Commission DG CONNECT has added the ODS template to the CRA Guidance feedback process, reacting promptly in a positive way to our request. Kudos to DG CONNECT.
IMPORTANT ODF Template added to CRA Guidance feedback - TDF Community Blog
Last week, the European Commission published the draft guidelines for the CRA and opened a comment session open to all stakeholders until the end of March. In its first version, the consultation page allowed users to download the draft guidelines and related communication in PDF format, and the feedback template in proprietary XLSX format only. For this reason, we protested through a post and an open letter to the European Commission, asking that the feedback template also be provided in the open and standard ODS format. Within 24 hours, officials from DG CONNECT—responsible for the CRA—responded positively to our request and added the template in ODS format. This is an important first step towards the interoperability that proprietary formats do not allow, and indeed seek to limit by making the DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX formats increasingly different from a standard with the addition of unnecessary complexities. To all those individuals who insist on considering OOXML a standard because it has been approved by ISO, and to all software that supports OOXML by using it as the default format, we remind you that you are going against not only your own interests but also the interests of all citizens of the
TDF Community Blog (blog.documentfoundation.org)
@libreoffice @ODS @ODF @digitalsovereignty @digitalfreedom
@libreoffice No explanation of the acronyms.
No alt text.
No working link.
Non working mentions that probably should have been hashtags.
No interaction.Reflects 100% my experience with the software.
I’d recommend to stick with markdown. You do not even need a special editor for that.
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@webmink @tachan @libreoffice Mimetypes strike again?
@richlv
Sounds likely doesn't it. -
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