{"id":1017,"date":"2011-05-05T21:21:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T01:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2d823b65bb.nxcli.io\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2011-05-06T08:20:02","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T12:20:02","slug":"te-things-about-odf12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/te-things-about-odf12.html","title":{"rendered":"Ten Things You Didn&#8217;t Know About ODF 1.2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some little known facts, all of them true, but only some of them amusing, and even then only just so, about ODF 1.2, <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.oasis-open.org\/archives\/tc-announce\/201103\/msg00003.html\">recently approved<\/a> as a Committee Specification by the OASIS ODF TC:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>In producing OASIS ODF 1.2, we had 184 Technical Committee meetings, not including the numerous subcommittee meetings.<\/li>\n<li>During the development of ODF 1.2, the active TC membership grew by 78%.<\/li>\n<li>The  ODF TC , during the ODF 1.2 work, had 76 members, from 17 countries,  representing 23 companies or organizations, as well as 17 individual  members.\u00a0 The sun never sets on the ODF TC.<\/li>\n<li>ODF TC members received 14,655 emails from the TC&#8217;s email list while working on ODF 1.2, including 474 notes with a post-script (PS), 113 with a post-post-script (PPS) and 13 with a post-post-post-script (PPPS), suggesting a new phrase for derangement:\u00a0 &#8220;going postscript&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>ODF 1.2 has been out for public review a total of 210 days.<\/li>\n<li>The ODF TC resolved 1,822 public comments while working on ODF 1.2.\u00a0 We read every one of them.<\/li>\n<li>ODF 1.2 says &#8220;shall&#8221; 628 times, but says &#8220;please&#8221; only 14 times, making it one of the most discourteous specifications around.<\/li>\n<li>ODF 1.2 has 72 external normative references and 16 external non-normative references.<\/li>\n<li>If you printed out all of ODF 1.2 and laid the pages end-to-end, it would be approximately 20% taller than the Eiffel Tower.\u00a0 You would also probably be arrested.<\/li>\n<li>ODF 1.2&#8217;s OpenFormula knows how many imperial pints will fill a cubic light year.\u00a0 But please, drink only in moderation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some little known facts, all of them true, but only some of them amusing, and even then only just so, about ODF 1.2, recently approved as a Committee Specification by the OASIS ODF TC: In producing OASIS ODF 1.2, we had 184 Technical Committee meetings, not including the numerous subcommittee meetings. During the development of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-odf","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1688,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/1688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}