[Foundation-l] Board meeting report

[Brianna Laugher]

2008/10/19 Michael Snow <wikipedia at verizon.net>:
> Jan-Bart gave a presentation on open standards, which led into the
> broader topic (including file formats) that I introduced earlier.
> Jan-Bart feels that considering our commitment to these ideals - freely
> licensed content, free software, web standards - our projects are not
> doing nearly as much as they could on open standards in education. It's
> an important aspect of our mission, the standards often exist already
> and are in use in the educational community, and our impact in that
> world would grow significantly by working towards them.

Interesting. Jan-Bart, what kind of "open standards in education" are
you referring to? Like standardised curricula, or something else?

cheers,
Brianna

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