blog/data/2010-12-30-digistan-analysis.txt

   1 Title: What standards are Free and Open as defined by Digistan?
   2 Tags: english, standard, digistan
   3 Date: 2010-12-30 23:15
   4
   5 <p>After trying to
   6 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Is_Ogg_Theora_a_free_and_open_standard_.html">compare
   7 Ogg Theora</a> to
   8 <a href="http://www.digistan.org/open-standard:definition">the Digistan
   9 definition</a> of a free and open standard, I concluded that this need
  10 to be done for more standards and started on a framework for doing
  11 this.  As a start, I want to get the status for all the standards in
  12 the Norwegian reference directory, which include UTF-8, HTML, PDF, ODF,
  13 JPEG, PNG, SVG and others.  But to be able to complete this in a
  14 reasonable time frame, I will need help.</p>
  15
  16 <p>If you want to help out with this work, please visit
  17 <a href="http://wiki.nuug.no/grupper/standard/digistan-analyse">the
  18 wiki pages I have set up for this</a>, and let me know that you want
  19 to help out.  The IRC channel #nuug on irc.freenode.net is a good
  20 place to coordinate this for now, as it is the IRC channel for the
  21 NUUG association where I have created the framework (I am the leader
  22 of the Norwegian Unix User Group).</p>
  23
  24 <p>The framework is still forming, and a lot is left to do.  Do not be
  25 scared by the sketchy form of the current pages. :)</p>