{"id":1848,"date":"2011-09-30T19:41:34","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T23:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2d823b65bb.nxcli.io\/?p=1848"},"modified":"2011-10-12T11:26:29","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T15:26:29","slug":"odf12-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/odf12-approved.html","title":{"rendered":"ODF 1.2: Approved as an OASIS Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"

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To quote the immortal words of Otis B. Driftwood,\u00a0 “Let joy be unconfined. Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlor”.<\/p>\n

The day has finally arrived.\u00a0 Open Document Format (ODF) 1.2 has been approved<\/a>.\u00a0 It is now an OASIS Standard<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you are regular reader of this blog, you know all about ODF 1.2, the enhancements we’ve made with OpenFormula,<\/a> with RDFa\/RDF XML semantic metadata<\/a>, the digital signature support<\/a>, etc.\u00a0 I’ve discussed this all before, on this blog and at conferences.<\/p>\n

Most likely your office suite already supports ODF 1.2 today. \u00a0 If not, ask your vendor when they will be adding support for it.<\/p>\n

ODF 1.2 is a large standard,\u00a0 in four volumes, totaling 1217 pages.\u00a0 It was the work of many hands, over a four year period. \u00a0 I’d like to acknowledge some of the many who contributed to the success of this standard, with apologies in advance for any inadvertent omissions.<\/p>\n

First, credit goes to the editors of the ODF 1.2: Michael Brauer, Dennis Hamilton, Eike Rathke, David A. Wheeler and especially Patrick Durusau.\u00a0 With a document of this size and complexity, the work of an editor is as much an engineering exercise as technical writing task.\u00a0\u00a0 Hats off to our editors for their their accomplishment.<\/p>\n

Many companies enabled their experts to participate on the ODF Technical Committee, including prominent technical contributions from Sun\/Oracle, IBM, Novell, Microsoft, Nokia and others.<\/p>\n

Open source projects should be especially proud of the contributions made to this standard by their project members, especially Gnumeric, KOffice, Calligra Suite, AbiWord, OpenOffic.org, LibreOffice, WebODF, lpOD and the ODF Toolkit.<\/p>\n

In some cases,\u00a0 participation of technical experts was sponsored by organizations such as NLnet<\/a> and the Friends of Open Document<\/a>\/Open Document Fellowship<\/a>, and their support is gratefully acknowledged.<\/p>\n

A full list of TC members who contributed to ODF 1.2, as copied from Appendix B of the standard:<\/p>\n

Chieko Asakawa, Waldo Bastian,\u00a0 Thorsten Behrens, Nathaniel Borenstein,\u00a0 Michael Brauer,\u00a0 Pete Brunet, Manuel Cano,\u00a0 Suresh Chande,\u00a0 Robin Cover,\u00a0 Pierre Ducroquet, Jerome Dumonteil,\u00a0 Patrick Durusau, Cherie Ekholm,\u00a0 Ezer Farhi, David Faure, Jean Gouarne,\u00a0 Andreas J. Guelzow, Bettina Haberer, Dennis E. Hamilton, Bart Hanssens, Donald Harbison, Mingfei Jia,\u00a0 Bob Jolliffe, Peter Junge, Kazmer Koleszar,\u00a0 Peter Korn, Jirka Kosek, Robin LaFontaine, Marcus Lange, David LeBlanc,\u00a0 Fong Lin,\u00a0 Jun Ma, Yue Ma,\u00a0 John Madden,\u00a0 Doug Mahugh,\u00a0 Ben Martin, James Mason, Tristan Mitchell, Duane Nickull,\u00a0 Michael Paciello, Ganesh Paramasivam,\u00a0 Eric Patterson,\u00a0 David Pawson, Steven Pemberton, Stephen Peront,\u00a0 Asokan Ramanathan, Eike Rathke,\u00a0 Florian Reuter,\u00a0 Janina Sajka, Svante Schubert, Charles Schulz, Richard Schwerdtfeger, Douglas Schepers, Wei Guo Shi,\u00a0 Michael Stahl,\u00a0 Yan Shi, Jomar Silva,\u00a0 Frank Stecher,\u00a0 Hironobu Takagi, Malte Timmermann,\u00a0 John Tolbert,\u00a0 Elias Torres,\u00a0 Warren Turkal,\u00a0 Jos van den Oever, Alex Wang, Robert Weir,\u00a0 Oliver-Rainer Wittmann,\u00a0 David A. Wheeler, Cheng XiuZhi,\u00a0 Panrong Yin, Kohei Yoshida,\u00a0 Helen Yue,\u00a0 Jin YouBing, Thorsten Zachmann,\u00a0 Thomas Zander and Pine Zhang.<\/p>\n

ODF 1.2 obviously built on the previous work in ODF 1.1 and ODF 1.0, so it is fair to acknowledge as well those who laid the foundation that we built upon:<\/p>\n

Daniel Brotsky, Jerome Dumonteil,\u00a0 Charles Schulz,\u00a0 Jerry Berrier,\u00a0 Donglin Wang,\u00a0 Rui Zhao,\u00a0 Stephen Noble, John Madden, Chieko Asakawa, Nathaniel Borenstein, Pete Brunet, Yue Ma, Richard Schwerdtfeger, Robert Weir, Zhi Yu Yue, John Barstow, Patrick Durusau, Michael Paciello, Janina Sajka, David Clark, Waldo Bastian, James Mason, David Faure, Jody Goldberg, David Pawson, Michael Brauer, Peter Korn, Lars Oppermann, Eike Rathke, Svante Schubert,\u00a0 Frank Stecher,\u00a0 Malte Timmermann, Daniel Bricklin,\u00a0 Daniel Carrera,\u00a0 Bruce D’Arcus,\u00a0 Gary Edwards,\u00a0 Elmar Geese,\u00a0 Sam Hiser,\u00a0 Michael Kleinhenz,\u00a0 Tomas Mecir,\u00a0 Thomas Metcalf,\u00a0 Stefan Nikolaus,\u00a0 Florian Reuter,\u00a0 Daniel Vogelheim, David A. Wheeler,\u00a0 Chris Nokleberg,\u00a0 Paul Grosso,\u00a0 Tom Magliery,\u00a0 Doug Alberg,\u00a0 Paul Langille, John Chelsom, Monica Martin, Jason Harrop, Uche Ogbuji,\u00a0 Lauren Wood, Simon Davis,\u00a0 Mark Heller and Phil Boutros.<\/p>\n

The work of the ODF TC was complemented and amplified by a larger community of related committees and organizations, including the OASIS ODF Adoption TC<\/a>, the OASIS ODF Interoperability and Conformance TC<\/a>, the ODF Alliance<\/a>, the OpenDoc Society<\/a> and OpenForum Europe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’d like to also acknowledge the many who who submitted comments during the unprecedented 270 days that ODF 1.2 was under public review, with notable contributions from Regina Henschel, Leonard Mada, Michiel Leenars, Norbert Bollow, Casper Boemann,\u00a0 N\u00e9meth L\u00e1szl,\u00a0S\u00f8ren Roug, and someone known to us only as “Ronnie the Bonnie”.\u00a0 We also received, via the comment list and via official defect reports, valued contributions from ISO\/IEC JTC1\/SC34 technical experts, including Alex Brown (UK), Murata Makoto (Japan) and Jesper Lund Stocholm (Denmark).<\/p>\n

My personal thanks as well to the OASIS staff, especially Chet, Robin, Mary, Carol, Jane, Laurent and Jamie, for their constant support.<\/p>\n

Finally,\u00a0 a special thanks Michael Brauer, whose diligent efforts and leadership as ODF TC Co-Chair, made ODF 1.0, 1,1 and 1.2 possible, and whose legacy lives on into our work on ODF 1.3.<\/p>\n

When work first started on ODF 1.0, back in December, 2002,\u00a0 the idea of having an open standard for office documents was radical. Every word processor had its own format, and most formats were undocumented or had documentation available only under anti-competitive licenses.\u00a0 ODF challenged that status quo and shook the palace walls of companies whose business models relied on ensuring that your<\/strong> documents were the source of their<\/strong> vendor lock-in.\u00a0 In some places the walls crumbled.\u00a0 Today having an open standard document format is considered to the norm.\u00a0 We’re all open standards supporters now, at least in words.<\/p>\n

So a time to celebrate this important accomplishment.\u00a0 There will be no OASIS ODF TC next week.\u00a0 We’ll take the week off from ODF work.\u00a0 But we’ll be back at it the following Monday. \u00a0\u00a0 We need to start preparing a submission to ISO\/IEC JTC1, to refresh ISO\/IEC 26300:2006.\u00a0 And we continue work on producing a first draft of ODF 1.3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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