Thinking the unthinkable, pondering the imponderable, effing the ineffable and scruting the inscrutable
Writings
byRobon2009/12/28
Professional Presentations and Publications
“Open Source Marketing for Hackers”, a presentation given at ApacheCon, Denver, April 2014 ODFPDF
“Fuzzing Apache OpenOffice: An Approach to Automated Black-box Security Testing”, a presentation given at ApacheCon, Denver, April 2014 ODFPDF
“Rob Weir explains the OpenOffice Resurrection”, an interview with Bill Toulas of Unixmen, May 2012 Online
“ODF Metadata and Interoperability”, a presentation given at the ODF Plugfest, Berlin, July 2011 ODFPDF
“Open Document Format 1.2”, a presentation given at the ODF Plugfest, Berlin, July 2011 ODFPDF
“IBM Lotus Symphony”, a presentation given at the ODF Plugfest, Berlin, July 2011 ODFPDF
“Contributing to ODF”, a presentation given at the ODF Plugfest, Berlin, July 2011 ODFPDF
“OASIS ODF 1.2”, a presentation given at the ODF Plugfest, Brussels, October 2010 ODFPDF
An interview with Jos van den Oever and Inge Wallin, September 2010 HTML
“The Mutual Advantage of Open Source and Open Standards”, a presentation given at LinuxTag, Berlin, June 2010 ODFPDF
“ODF Metadata and Interoperability”, a presentation given at the ODF Plugfest, Grenada, April 2010 ODFPDF
An interview with Svante Schubert, about ODF 1.2’s RDF metadata and the ODF Toolkit, April 2010 HTML
“ODF and Web Mashups: Basic Techniques”, a presentation given at the OpenOffice.org Conference, November 2009 ODFPDF
“What is ODF-Next?”, a presentation given at the OpenOffice.org Conference, November 2009 ODFPDF
“Authoring for Interoperability”, a presentation given at the ODF Plugfest in Orvieto, November 2009 ODFPDF
“From Pre-ODF 1.2 to ODF 1.2”, a short talk given at the ODF Plugfest in the Hague, June 2009 ODFPDF
“OpenDocument Format: The Standard for Office Documents”, IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 13, No. 2, March-April 2009 PDF
“Taking Control of Your Documents”, for Document Freedom Day, March 25, 2009 ODFPDF
“The World of ODF”, a workshop given at the Tshwane Institute of Technology, June 2008 ODFPDF
“The Social Life of Forms”, a presentation given at the Tshwane Institute of Technology, June 2008 ODFPDF
“ODF Interoperability – The Price of Success”, a presentation given at the OpenOffice.org Conference in Barcelona, September 2007 ODFPDFVideo
An interview with Patrick Durusau, Chair of the ODF Metadata Subcommittee, about metadata enhancements in ODF 1.2, July 2007 MP3
“ODF Programability – What we need & What we have”, a presention given at the OASIS Symposium in San Diego, April 2007 ODFPDF
“Open by Design: The Open Document Format for Office Applications”, with Erwin Tenhumberg and Donald Harbison, CEPSIS Upgrade, Vol. VII, No. 6, December 2006 PDF
“An OpenDocument Developers Kit (ODDK)”, presented at the KDE “aKademy” conference in Dublin, September 2006 ODFPDF
“A Proposal for an ODF Toolkit”, March 2006 ODFPDF
Juvenilia
“Love in Medieval Literature: The Transformation of the Lancelot Legend” HTML
“Harmonices Mundi: A Look at Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington’s Cosmos” HTML
All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest.
— Friedrich Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty (1960)
