Tag Archives: ODF

Daily links for 05/07/2011

Posted on May 7, 2011 by Bob Sutor

Ten Things You Didn’t Know About ODF 1.2 “Some little known facts, all of them true, but only some of them amusing, and even then only just so, about ODF 1.2, recently approved as a Committee Specification by the OASIS … Continue reading →

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Daily links for 10/07/2010

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Bob Sutor

The Mobile Monster Mash(up) | ZDNet “Today JibJab and Sendables released their latest in do-it-yourself animated e-cards, just in time for everyone’s favorite spooky holiday. And what’s more spooky than a bunch of tech giants that have nothing better to … Continue reading →

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Daily links for 09/28/2010

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Bob Sutor

OpenOffice.org Forks into LibreOffice The Launch of the Document Foundation and the Oxymoron of Corporate Controlled “Community” Projects – ConsortiumInfo.org “The bad news is that in the same time period the OpenOffice suite could have become so much more. As … Continue reading →

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What’s holding back presentation software?

Posted on September 20, 2010 by Bob Sutor

I can’t think of one thing I do with presentation software today other than creating PDFs that I didn’t do ten years ago. We have Microsoft PowerPoint, we have OpenOffice.org Impress, and IBM’s Symphony. Over on the Mac we have … Continue reading →

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Daily links for 09/11/2010

Posted on September 11, 2010 by Bob Sutor

Linux Wi-Fi Gets Easier with New Broadcom Driver – PCWorld Business Center “Wireless chip maker Broadcom on Thursday announced good news for Linux users in the form of a fully open wireless driver that’s compatible with the operating system.” tags: … Continue reading →

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Daily links for 07/15/2010

Posted on July 15, 2010 by Bob Sutor

Standards ODF 1.2 Begins Final 60-day Public Review “A major milestone was reached for the OASIS ODF TC last week. The latest Committee Draft of ODF 1.2 (CD 05) was sent out for a 60-day public review.” tags: odf oasis … Continue reading →

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Daily links for 06/03/2010

Posted on June 3, 2010 by Bob Sutor

Converting ODF to ePub “With ODFToEPub everyone can write an e-book with full control over how it will look. All you need is a word processor that can produce a document in a format suitable for OpenOffice.” tags: odf, ePub … Continue reading →

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ODF, the OASIS standard, turns 5

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Bob Sutor

The Open Document Format (ODF) became an OASIS standards five years ago on May 1. The ODF Alliance has prepared a document called “ODF Turns Five: A Look Back on the Journey to a Mature Open Standard Document Format” that … Continue reading →

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Daily links for 05/02/2010

Posted on May 2, 2010 by Bob Sutor

lovemachine » Blog Archive » Off the Grid “The solar cell that made this all possible (on the right in the picture) is a flexible cell – folds up to the size/weight of a book – printed with some sort … Continue reading →

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Daily links for 04/22/2010

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Bob Sutor

WhiteHouse.gov Releases Open Source Code | The White House “As part of our ongoing effort to develop an open platform for WhiteHouse.gov, we’re releasing some of the custom code we’ve developed. This code is available for anyone to review, use, … Continue reading →

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Daily links for 03/31/2010

Posted on March 31, 2010 by Bob Sutor

Document Freedom: How to know when you have it “Today is Document Freedom Day.  In the five years since Open Document Format (ODF) first was approved in OASIS we have certainly made progress, but there is still work remaining to … Continue reading →

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Presentations: Still too hard to mix and match

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Bob Sutor

In a post last week I noted that the presentations I produced ten years ago were more complicated than those I made and used today. Many of the whiz-bang features in presentation software are just not things that I use, … Continue reading →

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Daily links for 02/22/2010

Posted on February 22, 2010 by Bob Sutor

A Big Victory for F/OSS: Jacobsen v. Katzer is Settled – ConsortiumInfo.org “The result?  F/OSS has achieved a significant victory that will provide comfort to developers that their expectations will be satisfied when they contribute code to a software project.  … Continue reading →

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IBM releases Lotus Symphony 3 Beta 2

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Bob Sutor

IBM just released Lotus Symphony 3 Beta 2: Lotus Symphony 3 Beta 2 represents a major new advancement for our Lotus Symphony users. Based on current OpenOffice.org 3 code stream. Lotus Symphony 3 Beta 2 offers loads of new features … Continue reading →

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What would ODF support for WordPress look like?

Posted on February 3, 2010 by Bob Sutor

I was having a conversation today with a friend and somehow we got onto the topic of support for ODF, the Open Document Format, in WordPress. Drupal has some import support for ODF word processing files and that effort appears … Continue reading →

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