By nature I am an introvert. I don’t schmooze. I don’t “network”. Like Sartre, I am firmly in the “Hell is other people” camp. However, since social and collaborative computing is large part of what we work on at IBM, and we’ve recently signed deals with LinkedIn and Skype, I’ve decided to jump in with […]
Archives for February 2009
Whither ODF?
Whether ODF will wither or weatherdepends on us as we work together. The question is where we should go: whither?The answer is clear at once.The question of “whither” is not so dense,and is easy to answer when we start with “whence?”. Of the topic todayI will no longer delay nor dither to saywhether we will […]
Looking for Good Ideas for ODF-Next
A typical team project, whether software, standards, bridge construction or what have you, has a slow start dominated by a planning and scheduling, a middle period of execution, and an finish with final frantic rush of activity to complete the project. Then everyone takes a few days off and we start again. One thing I […]
Strange corners of the Web
Back in the 1980’s, when I was a student, I was also an avid shortwave listener (SWL). This was in the days before the web, satellite TV or 24-hour international cable news coverage. I had an upper floor room in Cabot Hall, and each night I would surreptitiously dangle out the window a 40-foot wire […]
ODF 1.2 Committee Draft 01
It is not the end of the end, nor the end of the beginning, but more like the beginning of the end for the development of ODF 1.2. The Committee Draft 01 of ODF 1.2, Part 1 was approved by the OASIS ODF TC yesterday in a 9-2-2 vote. You can download it here. A […]