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Tag Archives: OASIS
Where to go to join a standards group
I usually have several potential blog entries floating around in my head. On them is “Checklist for joining a standards organization.” Per one of my resolutions for 2009, I’m not going to promise that this will ever appear, but one … Continue reading
Microsoft says they will support ODF natively, join OASIS ODF committee?
At various times in the three years in which I’ve been working on OpenDocument Format (ODF) adoption I’ve asked myself “What would success look like?”. In full, success would mean that consumers, governments, and businesses would recognize the value of … Continue reading
On quality and standards: The W3C
Over in his blog, Arnaud Le Hors has an excellent piece called “A Standards Quality Case Study: W3C.” With all the fuss about ISO recently, I think people need to remember that important, and sometimes more important, standards work is … Continue reading
Ten challenges and priorities for open standards in 2008
Over the next couple of weeks I plan to publish several entries on “challenges and priorities in 2008″ on a range of topics, some related to work areas of interest, some related to personal ones. I’m kicking this off today … Continue reading
OASIS Symposium keynote
I’ve now put online the slides I used for my keynote at the OASIS Symposium this morning. Warning: these are very minimalist but you might have fun imagining what I said around these few words. The advice section is for … Continue reading
links for 2007-04-13
Standards OASIS approves BPEL 2.0 | InfoWorld | News | 2007-04-12 | By Paul Krill “Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL) 2.0 has been approved as an OASIS Standard, providing an officially ratified version of this specification for describing … Continue reading
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OASIS Symposium next week
As I mentioned last month, I’ll be delivering a keynote at the OASIS Symposium in San Diego next Monday morning. I’ll try to set the context for why we’re seeing the opposition to smart, sensible open standards like ODF and … Continue reading
links for 2007-04-03
O’Reilly Radar > OASIS Symposium on OpenDocument Format “The OASIS Symposium on open standards is hosting a workshop April 18th in San Diego on the OpenDocument format (ODF).” (tags: oasis odf)
Peaceful existence of one open document standard, ODF
So I understand that the latest pro-OOXML/anti-ODF tactic is to sweetly request peaceful co-existence of document standards. This is after the crafters studiously refused to participate in the open, community-developed OpenDocument Format OASIS/ISO standard for several years; saw governments around … Continue reading
The fourth annual OASIS Symposium
I’ll be delivering the keynote at the fourth annual OASIS Symposium to be held this year in San Diego from April 15th to the 17th. I’ll be speaking on the morning of the 16th and, according to the press release, … Continue reading
Catching up
I got home from Europe only an hour later than expected on Friday. Maybe it’s because I’m fighting a cold, but readjusting to Eastern Standard Time is a more tiring affair than I’ve previously experienced. Some sleep, some cough medicine, … Continue reading
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Name 2 standards efforts that actually finished …
Here’s some good, positive move from OASIS: Kelvin Lawrence, co-chair of the Web Services Security Technical Committee, announced over in his blog that the TC did what it was supposed to do and so voted itself out of existence. He … Continue reading
“OASIS Launches OpenDocument XML.org”
OASIS released a press release yesterday about the new OpenDocument XML.org. Here’s an excerpt (most if it, actually): OASIS Launches OpenDocument XML.org New Web Site Enables Community to Share, Track, and Monitor Information on the OpenDocument Format Lyon, France; 12 … Continue reading
OASIS co-hosted Open Standards Conference in Sydney
I just got an email notification of a conference that OASIS is co-hosting on open standards in Sydney from October 25 to 27. Here is an excerpt from the description: OASIS Open Standards is the premier event for IT professionals … Continue reading
Official OASIS press release about ODF and ISO/IEC
The press release from OASIS went out this morning. It starts … GENEVA & BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May 8, 2006–The OpenDocument OASIS Standard, a format which enables users of varying office suites to freely exchange documents, has been approved for release as … Continue reading
An ODF Thanks
With the 23-0 vote in the ISO this last week to get the OpenDocument Format to the status of being an international standard (but for some final procedures and paperwork), I want to thank a lot of the people involved. … Continue reading
Another Shoe Falls: OASIS Launches the ODF Adoption Committee
In a move complementary to the launch of the ODF Alliance last week, OASIS has announced the creation of the OpenDocument Format Adoption Committee. While the ODF Alliance will focus on accelerating the adoption of ODF in the public sector … Continue reading
New ODF subcommittee formed
I’m told by a reliable source that there is now a new subcommittee for the OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC. This new subgroup will focus on standardizing the representation of formulas such as those used in … Continue reading
Kelvin Lawrence: Web services security news
See Kelvin’s blog entry “Web Services Security 1.1 is now an OASIS Standard”.
Some Open Wishes for 2006
For those of us in the trenches, 2005 was an exciting if not exhausting year for standards and open source. We saw some important realignments in product categories, aggressive government examination and adoption of open standards, and some strong indications … Continue reading
OASIS forms Accessibility Subcommittee within the OpenDocument Technical Committee
See the subcommittee page at OASIS for details.
OASIS Membership
With all the discussion around OASIS and ODF and the creation of some new subcommittees, I thought I would provide a link to the OASIS membership information. There are several different levels, including an individual one at $250.
Regarding ODF, accessibility, and IBM
Accessibility is an important global issue and, in the case I’ve spent so much time discussing in this blog, whether it’s for whatever is needed in the ODF specification or for applications that support ODF (indeed, there seems to have … Continue reading
New web services transactions technical committee at OASIS
Ever wonder what happened to WS-Coordination, WS-AtomicTransaction, WS-BusinessActivity? OASIS announced a new technical committee yesterday to standardize these: “OASIS Members Form Committee to Advance Web Services Transaction (WS-TX) Standards”.
Another OASIS standard in action
CNET published a “perspectives” piece yesterday called “Don’t wait until the Big One hits” about how we should have in place an emergency commuincations network. Clearly in recent weeks with Hurricane Katrina and the impending Hurricane Rita, such infrastructure makes … Continue reading
eWeek Editorial Board on Massachusetts
In an opinion piece published yesterday (“State’s Open Document Dispute Raises Legacy Questions”), eWeek’s Editorial Board has come out in support of the decision by the State of Massachusetts to support the OASIS OpenDocument standard. The piece concludes Government is … Continue reading
UN document on open standards
This is a draft, I’m not supposed to cite or quote it, but it is from the United Nations Development Programme’s Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme: “Free/Open Source Software: Open Standards”. They discuss the OASIS OpenDocument Format along with many other … Continue reading
Oasis Board of Directors election
This is news from last month, but better late than never. Here is the current composition of the OASIS Board of Directors following the most recent election: Chris Kurt of Microsoft, John Jackson of General Motors, Claus von Riegen of … Continue reading
OpenDocument website
A colleague pointed out this website in support of OASIS Open Document standard. Evidently it is the brainchild of Sun’s Erwin Tenhumberg. Very nice site!
Some comments on the NewsForge article on OASIS and open document format standards
NewsForge ran an interesting article yesterday about OASIS and the new open document format standards (“OASIS: Meaningful open standards or mirage?”). We were not quoted in this nor contributed to it, but I want to add some secondary comments: You … Continue reading
