October 2010

ODF Plugfest — Brussels

October 28, 2010

A couple of weeks ago I was in Brussels to participate in the 4th ODF Plugfest. I planned on writing up a nice long post about it. But right when I started to draft this blog post, I came across an excellent article in LWN.net by Koen Vervloesem (Twitter @koenvervloesem): ODF Plugfest: Making office tools [...]

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Weekly Links #24

October 9, 2010

Sean McGrath: KLISS: Author/edit sub-systems in legislative environments “KLISS [Kansas Legislative Information Services System] makes extensive use of ODF for units of information in the asset repository. “ tags: ODF Here there be Dragons | IT PRO blogs “Meanwhile, in organisations not beholden to the great god of Seattle, they have gone for free software [...]

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ODF Ingredients

October 5, 2010

I think you will enjoy this graphic. Click for a larger view. This is a chart of all of the standards that ODF 1.2 refers to, what we standards geeks call “normative references”. A normative reference takes definitions and requirements from one standard and uses it, by reference, in another. It is a form of [...]

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Is ODF Green?

October 3, 2010

Green IT is concerned with approaches to information technology that reduce the environmental impact from the manufacture, use and disposal of computers and peripherals. Occasionally I am asked whether Open Document Format (ODF) has any relationship to “Green IT”. This is an interesting question, and the fact that the question is asked at all suggests [...]

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Weekly Links #23

October 2, 2010

How to be a data journalist | News | guardian.co.uk tags: statistics New ISO standard for special math functions A good example of how ISO fails to encourage harmonized standards. These function definitions would be perfect for reusing in a variety of other standards, or at least for harmonizing with other standards that also define [...]