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Open source tour of Europe: Romania
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| An open source library system has been created for managing administration of
| public libraries and was funded by both the Romanian and Italian governments.
| Meanwhile eLearning vendor Timsoft has created an open source e-learning
| project in cooperation with the Politehnica University in Timisoara and the
| University of Helsinki.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/06/10/open-source-tour-of-europe-romania/
Recent:
"Then, they fight you"
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| I asked the organizers if our Free Software Group could hold a short session
| about the benefits of FOSS in education, with references to Ubuntu, Edubuntu
| and Kiwilinux and we were given a slot after the ones which had already been
| planned a while ago - those of Microsoft, Cisco and a local company that
| sells education software for Romanian schools.
|
| [...]
|
| It is sad to know they are resorting to this sort of coercing and that they
| have such influence over the educators but looking on the bright side of it,
| and that's how I perceived it after thinking a bit about it, THEY ARE
| SCARED :)
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http://janimo.blogspot.com/2008/05/then-they-fight-you.html
Portrait: NimbleX creator Bogdan Radulescu
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| Sometimes all it takes to foment innovation may be an idea that sounds cool.
| When Romanian developer Bogdan Radulescu first ran into what would eventually
| be known as NimbleX, a mini-live CD project designed to be fast, light, and
| functional for everyday use.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/135098
Related:
KDE-Forum Romania Launched
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| After the rise of KDE-Forum.org, and KDE-Forum.de, Romanians wanted a
| forum of their own, and KDE-Forum Romania was born. Destined to unite
| all Romanians under one roof, KDE-Forum Romania is going to join its
| brothers on the boat for the upcoming KDE 4 release.
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http://dot.kde.org/1176766752/
OOXML vote in Romania, signs of committee stuffing
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| Today four have joined the committee, all of them seem to be MS partners
| (Fujitsu-Siemens is one of them, the others are local software companies).
| The sad thing is that these companies or people have not shown interest in
| the subject so far, have not participated in the 6 months online debate but
| are probably going to cast their vote in favor of OOXML . What they are doing
| is perfectly legal, after all anyone can join the committe, but it's sad to
| see attempts at public debate and the chances of it changing something
| getting offset by throwing money at the problem at the last minute.
|
| I'll keep an update on how things are progressing and the results and details
| of the vote when it happens.
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http://janimo.blogspot.com/2008/03/ooxml-vote-in-romania-signs-of.html
Romania says yes to OOXML once again
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| For months, OOXML and Microsoft have taken over any other subject on this
| forum. The pro and con debates were heated, numerous and lengthy.
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| In all this time, OOXML supporters have utterly failed to offer any solid
| argument for OOXML’s adoption, while opposing arguments were abundant. The
| only coherent pro-OOXML statements boiled down to the same tired FUD that
| Microsoft has put together, repeated ad-nauseam, in spite of all the rich and
| detailed counter-arguments.
|
| [...]
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| Therefore I feel justified in believing that “ballot-stuffing” was performed
| by Microsoft-friendly entities with the purpose of swaying the vote to an
| OOXML-favorable outcome.
|
| [...]
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| It will come as no surprise that many of the other recent members are
| Microsoft business partners.
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| Therefore I feel justified in believing that “ballot-stuffing” was performed
| by Microsoft-friendly entities with the purpose of swaying the vote to an
| OOXML-favorable outcome.
|
| I will stress, for the sake of clarity, that there has been neither public
| nor official statement so far regarding the CT210 members. We’re not supposed
| to even know who they are, officially.
|
| [...]
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| I repeat: there’s a total lack of transparency. So far, the way I understand
| it (and I Am Not A Lawyer) ASRO seems to put its internal regulations over
| the laws of the state, one of which states: “the following basic principles
| must be followed in national standardization: […] transparency and public
| availability”.
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| If I am wrong and ASRO’s position holds water, it will mean that the Romanian
| states is confortable entrusting its standardization to a body who can act in
| a completely opaque manner should it choose so. A very strange and disturbing
| notion, but there you have it.
|
| <h3>3. The conclusion</h3>
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| The public debate on TIC-Lobby in the months leading up to the March vote
| have shown a staggering amount of arguments against adopting OOXML as a
| standard. There were links, tehnical details, technical experiments.
|
| The counter-arguments have been weak, obstinate and often repeated. Even when
| begged to do so, OOXML supporters have failed to put together even the
| smallest document containing arguments for their position.
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| In the end, CT210 fell victim to ballot stuffing and ASRO is currently
| refusing to disclose any information other than the vote distribution.
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http://aranea.zuavra.net/index.php/97/
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