[Commons-l] File types brainstorm

[David Gerard]

On 02/10/2007, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher at gmail.com> wrote:

> It seems to me we haven't added any new file formats/types for a while
> now. Are there any we should work on adding? Are there any reasons we
> shouldn't add them?
> - something for Blender? (sth. like game environments if my impression
> is correct)
> - SMIL? (open standard alternative to Powerpoint, I think)
> - Open Office 2 formats?
> - what would be best for animations? I would find it hard to believe
> that GIF is optimal...


Anything that is an unencumbered and documented format (or, as with
XCF, at least has open source code) that doesn't contain active
content (i.e. code), or can be cleansed of such, I would think.

Do we have such a written standard of what constitutes a suitable format?


- d.