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ODF 1.2 Part 1 Public Review

January 25, 2010

A major milestone was reached for the OASIS ODF TC today.  The latest Committee Draft of ODF 1.2 Part 1 was sent out for a 60-day public review. “What does this mean, and why should I care?” you might be asking.  That’s a fair question. First, a quick review of the OASIS standards approval process.  [...]

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The Battle for ODF Interoperability

May 17, 2009

Last year, when I was socializing the idea of creating the OASIS ODF Interoperability and Conformance TC, I gave a presentation I called “ODF Interoperability: The Price of Success”. The observation was that standards that fail never need to deal with interoperability. The creation of test suites, convening of multi-vendor interoperability workshops and plugfests is [...]

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Four Shorts

August 21, 2006

I. OpenOffice.org Conference (OOOoCon 2006) in comming up, September 11-13th in Lyon, France. The last day starts with a panel discussion of ODF topics, and follows with a track dedicated to ODF. I’m on at 14:00 with a presentation with the exciting title, “A Technical Comparison: ISO/IEC 26300 vs Microsoft Office Open XML (Ecma International [...]

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