[ossig] [Fwd: ODF Alliance Newsletter]
NP Lee
nplee at tm.net.my
Fri Nov 17 10:17:59 MYT 2006
MNCC Open Source Special Interest Group (Malaysia) is now a member of
ODF Alliance.
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read the latest updates on ODF.
*ISO/IEC 26300 Now Under Publication
*-------- Original Message --------
Subject: ODF Alliance Newsletter
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:09:04 -0800
From: Marino Marcich <mmarcich at odfalliance.org>
Reply-To: mmarcich at odfalliance.org
To: nplee at computer.org
*Alliance Statement Regarding Microsoft/Novell Collaboration on
Interoperability*
Concerning document format compatibility, the Microsoft and Novell
promised to "work together on ways for OpenOffice and Microsoft Office
system users to best share documents, and both will take steps to make
translators available to improve interoperability between Office Open
XML and OpenDocument formats." Novell has also indicated that it will
develop the code necessary to bring support for Office Open XML (OOXML)
into OpenOffice, distribute the planned OOXML plug-in in their edition
of OpenOffice, and participate in the OOXML translator project.
_Alliance Statement_ -
http://www.odfalliance.org/press/Release%2020061103.pdf
<http://www.odfalliance.org/press/Release%2020061103.pdf%20>
_Novell Statement_ -
http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/fileformats.html
_Microsoft/Novell Press Release_ -
http://www.novell.com/news/press/item.jsp?id=1196
*Alliance Details Global Policy Adoption and Cost Savings of ODF
*The Alliance published two valuable new resources. /A Global View of
ODF Policy/ describes the steps being taken by governments worldwide
that are considering or committed to ODF and open standards.
/Preliminary Cost Assessments of Migrations to ODF-Supporting
Applications/ contains a summary of a variety of studies that quantify
the potential cost savings of adopting office software based on ODF.
_Alliance Release_ - http://www.odfalliance.org/press/Release20061109.pdf
_A Global View of ODF Policy_ -
http://www.odfalliance.org/resources/GlobalViewODFPolicy.pdf
_Preliminary Cost Assessments_ -
http://www.odfalliance.org/resources/PrelimCostAssess20061109.pdf
*ODF v1.1 Approved Incorporating Accessibility Enhancements*
OpenDocument v1.1, which incorporates accessibility-related
enhancements, has been approved unanimously as an OASIS Committee
Specification. OpenDocument v1.1 is an official OASIS specification now
and available for implementation. Next up is ODF v1.2 dealing with
spreadsheet formula and other enhancements like metadata, which could be
completed as early as mid 2007.
_ODF v1.1 Documentation_ -
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office#odf1_
__Peter Korn's Summary of Accessibility Advances in 2006_ -
http://blogs.sun.com/korn/
*ISO/IEC 26300 Now Under Publication
*Officially approved as an international standard by ISO/IEC in May
2006, ODF is now an "international standard under publication" -- Stage
60 in ISO parlance.
_ISO Stagetable_ - http://www.iso.org/iso/en/widepages/stagetable.html#60
*ODF Applications Support Update: 1) phpMyAdmin v2.9.0; 2) Open eBook
Publication Container Format v1.0; 3) wikiCalc 0.96
*Export functionality to OpenDocument Text and OpenDocument Spreadsheet
are among the improvements contained in just-released Version 2.9.0 of
phpMyAdmin, a web administration tool for MySQL databases.......The
International Digital Publishing Forum released a new standard for
packaging a digital publication, the Open eBook Publication Container
Format (OCF), which specifies a ZIP-based packaging format that is an
extension of OASIS' ODF....wikiCalc, the wiki spreadsheet, includes
support for the 109+ computational functions listed on Openformula.org,
part of Open Document Format (ODF).
_phpMyAdmin v2.9.0.3_ -
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/downloads.php?relnotes=1
_OCF v 1.0_ - http://www.idpf.org/ocf/ocf1.0/
_WikiCalc 0.96_ -
http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2006/11/wikicalc_featur.html
*New Members
*Please welcome the following new members: The Knowledge Trust (USA);
MNCC Open Source Special Interest Group (Malaysia); Nederlandse Linux
Gebuikers Groep (The Netherlands); Open at work (Belgium); Qindel (Spain);
AFUL (France); Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure
(FFII)(Germany); Radio Popular (Portugal); Intraneia - Sistemas de
Informação, Lda. (Portugal); SCIDERALLE (France); Pixart SRL
(Argentina); OpenAdvantage (UK); Technetra Corporation (USA); Free
Software Macedonia; QubeConnect Sdn Bhd (Malaysia); Beijing Jiaotong
University (China); dri - consultoria informática LDA (Portugal); OpenLX
(Indserve Infotech Pvt. Ltd.) (India); SKOSI (Slovak Open Source
Initiative); and Planeta Olea SL (Spain).
*******************ODF IN THE NEWS***************************
*
*China's own document standard: A clear message to US IT vendors?
*November 9, 2006 at 8:02am
By David Berlind, ZDNet
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=3913
*Sun to plug OpenDocument to global summit
*31st October 2006
By Kevin Murphy
http://www.cbronline.com/article_news_print.asp?guid=AD0B215C-5207-43F8-9515-581C519D1D84
*Open standards group to beat Microsoft at its own game
*/Government lobbying here we come
/The RegisterBy Kieren McCarthy1 Nov 2006 10:04 GMT
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/01/open_standards_coalition/
*Greeks bearing gifts
*By Edward Macnaghten
Online on: 03/11/2006
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/1848
*Where ODF stands in the EU
*By: Tom Chance
http://business.newsforge.com/business/06/10/20/1621200.shtml?tid=110
*When standards are political -- ODF (the Open Document Format)
*The Huffington Post
By James Love October 21, 2006
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-love/when-standards-are-politi_b_32192.html
*Leaked letter warns of open source 'threat to eco-system'
*By Matthew Broersma, Techworld
http://www.techworld.com/applications/news/index.cfm?newsid=7109
Marino Marcich
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/nan phin
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
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