File Formats/Meeting Notes 2018-03-12
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File Formats
- Date
- Monday, 12 March 2018 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm
- Meetup Event
- https://www.meetup.com/NetSquared-Kitchener-Waterloo/events/244120869/
- Location
- Upper Board Room in First United Church, 16 William Street West, Waterloo, Ontario Map
What file formats do your documents, images, spreadsheets use? Can you exchange your files with people using Macs? Linux? VMS? Will your documents survive an upgrade of your application software? Can you switch to another word processor? Image editor? Spreadsheet app? Can you still read the files from backups created years ago with different software? Can you choose the file format your application uses?
In the month of Document Freedom Day we'll look at the importance of open, well-known file formats, and compare it to closed, proprietary formats that are so prevalent today.
--Marc Paré & Bob Jonkman
Resources
- Document Freedom Day
- http://www.documentfreedom.org/
- Document Freedom Day (DFD) is the international day to celebrate and raise awareness of Open Standards.
- Digital Freedom Foundation
- http://www.digitalfreedomfoundation.org/
- Digital Freedom Foundation is the non-profit organization behind different International Days including Software Freedom Day, Education Freedom Day, Hardware Freedom Day and Document Freedom Day
- The Document Foundation
- https://www.documentfoundation.org/
- The Document Foundation is proud to be the home of LibreOffice and The Document Liberation Project
Meeting Notes
What are Free/Open File formats?
- and what are closed or proprietary formats?
Survey of participants
- Free/open File Formats users: #
- Proprietary File Formats users: #
Round Table Discussion
Software and applications
Free/Open File Formats
- make list here
Closed or Proprietary Formats
- make another list here
