MA Meeting on Open Formats
Sep. 22nd, 2005 11:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lensmanI found this on GrokLaw
"The Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council (an organization formed by a combination of the Massachusetts Software Council and the New England Business and Technology Association) had a meeting last Friday with Massachusetts Secretary of Administration & Finance Eric Kriss, CIO of the Commonwealth Peter Quinn, representatives from Microsoft, IBM, Adobe, Sun, and other companies and groups to discuss the XML/Open Document format decision and to provide feedback to Massachusetts.
Dan Bricklin taped it, and he has made it available on his website as an MP3. (I made a local copy) He does a brief introduction, then Secretary Kriss talks for about 20 minutes, and then Q&A starts at about 21 minutes in or so. The meeting lasts for 2 hours."
I think this is a very interesting discussion, and it starts me thinking about some of the other issues for public documents besides open accessibility, but tied to that I would have to say would then also have to be the issue of document authentication. How do we validate that a particular document is the "OFFICAL" version.
The discussion also provides some interesting insight into how government IT works, and the separation of the IT depts of the various branches of the state government.
"The Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council (an organization formed by a combination of the Massachusetts Software Council and the New England Business and Technology Association) had a meeting last Friday with Massachusetts Secretary of Administration & Finance Eric Kriss, CIO of the Commonwealth Peter Quinn, representatives from Microsoft, IBM, Adobe, Sun, and other companies and groups to discuss the XML/Open Document format decision and to provide feedback to Massachusetts.
Dan Bricklin taped it, and he has made it available on his website as an MP3. (I made a local copy) He does a brief introduction, then Secretary Kriss talks for about 20 minutes, and then Q&A starts at about 21 minutes in or so. The meeting lasts for 2 hours."
I think this is a very interesting discussion, and it starts me thinking about some of the other issues for public documents besides open accessibility, but tied to that I would have to say would then also have to be the issue of document authentication. How do we validate that a particular document is the "OFFICAL" version.
The discussion also provides some interesting insight into how government IT works, and the separation of the IT depts of the various branches of the state government.
