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Tag Archives: ODF
Daily Links for Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Standards Netherlands helps Denmark with open IT The Industry Standard The Dutch government has provided Denmark with information regarding the Dutch national plan Heemskerk for open government IT. In Denmark, there is heated debate about the approach for open IT … Continue reading
Upcoming OpenOffice.org 2009 Conference in Orvieto, Italy
The next incarnation of the OpenOffice.org 2009 Conference will be held in a couple of weeks in Orvieto, Italy. The exact dates are November 3, 2009 – November 6, 2009. In addition to OpenOffice.org specifically, the conference will include discussions … Continue reading
Daily Links for Tuesday, October 13, 2009 – Lunchtime Edition
Environment Farms as skyscrapers Boing Boing / David Pescovitz It’s been a decade since Columbia University professor Dickson Despommier launched his “Vertical Farm” project, devoted to the design of skyscrapers that house farms, instead of people or offices. It’s an … Continue reading
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Daily Links for Wednesday, September 30, 2009 – Morning Edition
Open Source Former MySQL CEO Joins Benchmark Capital – Digits – WSJ Wall Street Journal Online / Pui-Wing Tam Former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos is joining venture-capital firm Benchmark Capital as an entrepreneur in residence, says Benchmark partner Kevin Harvey. … Continue reading
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Daily Links for August 6, 2009
OpenDocument Format Microsoft offers Office 2010 file format ‘ballot’ to stop EU antitrust probe “”Beginning with the release of Office [2010], end users that purchase Microsoft’s Primary PC Productivity Applications in the EEA [European Economic Area] in both the OEM … Continue reading
Daily Links 07/21/2009 (p.m.)
An Antic Disposition: ODFDOM 0.7 Released “I’m pleased to report that the 0.7 release of the ODF Toolkit Union’s ODFDOM library has just been released. This is an open source (Apache 2.0 license) Java toolkit for programmatically reading, writing and … Continue reading
US Open Government Dialogue
As part of the Obama administration’s effort to make the US government and more transparent, a website has been set up by the National Academy of Public Administration to allow public proposals and comments on the topic. While some of … Continue reading
Update on sharing documents
Three years ago (!) I wrote a post called “How do you share documents?” where I essentially said “When you give documents to others that you do not expect them to change, use PDF. If they need an updatable form, … Continue reading
ODF Alliance offers recommendations to Obama administration
Following on the heels of yesterday’s set of open standards recommendations to the Obama administration by the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, the Open Document Format Alliance has offered its own recommendations in the area of open standards … Continue reading
ODF Alliance 2008 annual report
In the waning days of 2008 the OpenDocument Alliance published their annual report regarding progress made on getting the standard adopted around the world. The 28 page document discusses development of the standard, worldwide adoption, positive changes toward open standards … Continue reading
Daily Links 12/05/2008 (p.m.)
Germany Joins Growing Ranks of Governments Adopting ODF – MarketWatch “The ODF Alliance welcomed the decision by the Federal Government of Germany to implement use of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) by federal agencies beginning in 2010. “2008 will end on … Continue reading
Daily Links 11/19/2008 (p.m.)
9 Underrated Technologies For Growing Companies | Hardware & Software | bMighty.com “The latest and greatest technologies always get the attention and accolades, but it’s the unsung and unheralded technologies that often are the workhorses that keep your business running … Continue reading
Daily Links 11/14/2008 (p.m.)
Doug Mahugh : ODF Interoperability and Conformance TC (OIC TC) “I’ve had a few people ask recently whether Microsoft would be participating in the OIC TC, and I’m glad to report that as of today we’ve signed up.” Excellent news, … Continue reading
Slideshare
My IBM colleague Adam Christensen introduced me this morning to slideshare.net. Essentially, it’s like youtube but for presentations. It understands PowerPoint, PDF, ODF and a few other formats. While you can view the presentations on the website, you can also … Continue reading
Daily Links 11/06/2008 (p.m.)
Change.gov “Office of the President-Elect” tags: OB, politics IBM, Sun Microsystems Launch ODF Toolkit Union to Grow Adoption, Community and Software Innovation – MarketWatch “The ODF Toolkit will use an initial software code contribution from Sun to provide developers with … Continue reading
Daily Links 11/03/2008 (p.m.)
OASIS Members Form Committee to Advance Interoperability and Conformance of OpenDocument Format (ODF) Applications – MarketWatch “BOSTON, Nov 03, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — OASIS, the international open standards consortium, has formed a new group to help implementors create applications that … Continue reading
OpenOffice.org Conference (OOoCon 2008) in Beijing
Next week Beijing will host the OpenOffice.org Annual International Conference (OOoCon). The event runs from November 5 through 7. I will not be attending, though several of my IBM colleagues will be there. I did go to the event two … Continue reading
Daily Links 10/13/2008 (p.m.)
Economics Op-Ed Columnist – Gordon Does Good – NYTimes.com “As I said, we still don’t know whether these moves will work. But policy is, finally, being driven by a clear view of what needs to be done. Which raises the … Continue reading
Pretoria ODF Users Workshop
I’m a bit tardy in reporting what happened last week at the Second International ODF Users Conference, held in Pretoria, South Africa. This was the first time I was ever in Africa, much less South Africa, and so I was … Continue reading
Daily Links 10/11/2008 (p.m.)
ODF Going Global [on Simon Phipps, SunMink] “Marino Marcich of the ODF Alliance pointed out that there are now organisations from 62 countries represented in his membership, and I’m left with the strong of impression of a growing global community … Continue reading
Ah, Pretoria!
I arrived in Pretoria this evening in order to attend the ODF Users Workshop being held here on Thursday and Friday. I’m excited to be here for a couple of reasons. First, I wasn’t able to attend last year’s meeting … Continue reading
On to South Africa
I’m in Dulles Airport in Washington on my way to Pretoria, South Africa, for the International ODF User Conference. I flew here from Chicago, where I visited my daughter at college. I’m trying to get more comfortable with finding my … Continue reading
Daily Links 10/05/2008 (a.m.)
ODF Alliance Weblog – ODF Award Nominations Now Being Accepted “The purpose of the award is to recognize the contribution of individuals or entities in promoting ODF adoption, the mission of the ODF Alliance. Here’s how you can help! Nominate … Continue reading
Daily Links 10/02/2008 (p.m.)
Groklaw – The Microsoft-Stacked SC 34 Committee Makes a Move “Guess what the SC 34 committee, the ISO/IEC committee responsible for OOXML, is up to now? I call it a takeover attempt of ODF, according to my reading of the … Continue reading
ODF Alliance newsletter for September, 2008
The September, 2008, OpenDocument Format Alliance newsletter is now available in PDF form. I might be mistaken, but it looks to me to be the longest and most news filled edition yet.
Those two special words
Nothing brings the joy to my heart after a nine hour flight from Europe than to look up at the departure screen at Chicago’s O’Hare airport for my connection home and see “Flight Canceled”. That happened today, and so I’m … Continue reading
NATO: ODF is fine with us
A colleague just sent me a link to the NATO “3.4. NNEC Core Enterprise Services” which is part of the NATO Interoperability Standards and Profiles document. Lo and behold, about half way down the document in the Standards section is … Continue reading
Alex Brown: OOXML will be second to ODF
You’ve got to love Google Alerts. This morning I got this link to a Press Release from Giffin Brown with the title “OOXML will take second place following Microsoft’s announcement to support ODF, says Dr Alex Brown”. Alex was the … Continue reading
ODF keeps on winning: Uruguay
The Agency for the Development of Government Electronic Management and Information and Knowledge Society of Uruguay have now published their recommendation that public documents use either ODF or PDF. The former should be used for documents in the process of … Continue reading
Canadian Library Association’s pro-ODF resolution
The Canadian Library Association/Association canadienne des bibliothèques published several resolutions at their 63rd Annual General Meeting on May 24th in Vancouver. One that is of special interest to me is Resolution 1, “CLA/ACB Resolution on Open File Format Standards”. It … Continue reading
