{"id":920,"date":"2010-04-03T20:37:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T00:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2d823b65bb.nxcli.io\/?p=920"},"modified":"2010-04-12T13:33:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T17:33:59","slug":"weekly-links-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/weekly-links-5.html","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Links #5"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"diigo-linkroll\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/software.newsm8.com\/making-the-grade-with-the-open-document-format\">Making the Grade With the Open Document Format<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">&#8220;HOSEF conducts a monthly \u2018Open Source Pizza\u2019 so that people can learn more about what is happening with Free and Open Source Software. Th\u0456\u0455 presentation is about the adoption of the Open Document Format by the University of Hawaii\u2019s College of Education.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a style=\"color: #000 !important; text-decoration: none !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/rcweir\">tags<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/rcweir\/ODF\">ODF<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/developerworks\/lotus\/library\/symphony-odfdom-pt2\">ODFDOM for Java: Simplifying programmatic control of documents and their data, Part 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">&#8220;ODFDOM for Java provides a lightweight Java API for developers who want to create, access, and save ODF documents without having to gain detailed knowledge of the full ODF standard specification.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a style=\"color: #000 !important; text-decoration: none !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/rcweir\">tags<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/rcweir\/ODF\">ODF<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greeklug.gr\">Home Page | Association of Greek Users and Friends of FS \/ OSS<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">&#8220;Today, on the occasion of the international Document Freedom Day, the Association  of Greek Users and Friends of Free Software \/ Open Source Software and Free   Software Foundation Europe take the occasion to request from the Greek Government  the immediate, comprehensive and mandatory adoption of the OpenDocument<br \/>\nFormat (ODF) and other Open Standards for the Greek public sector.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a style=\"color: #000 !important; text-decoration: none !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/rcweir\">tags<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/rcweir\/ODF\">ODF<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/opensource.com\/government\/10\/3\/odf-setting-standard-office-documents-public-sector\">ODF: Setting the standard for office documents in the public sector | opensource.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">&#8220;With Document Freedom Day 2010 approaching, this is a good opportunity to consider the reasons why the public sector has increasingly opted for ODF, the document freedom that it enables, and why ODF is an essential feature of any \u201copen\u201d eGovernment strategy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a style=\"color: #000 !important; text-decoration: none !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/rcweir\">tags<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/rcweir\/ODF\">ODF<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/dmahugh\/archive\/2010\/03\/29\/sc34-meetings-stockholm.aspx\">Doug Mahugh : SC34 Meetings, Stockholm<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">&#8220;WG6\u2019s work was mostly focused on the errata for ODF 1.0 and the creation of an amendment to ISO\/IEC 26300 in response to OASIS\u2019s submission of ODF 1.1 to JTC1.  There was a full room for the meeting, with over 30 attendees including several participating by telephone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a style=\"color: #000 !important; text-decoration: none !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/rcweir\">tags<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/rcweir\/ODF\">ODF<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/brucebyfield.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/31\/why-i-support-document-freedom-day\">Why I support Document Freedom Day \u00ab Off the Wall<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">&#8220;Today is Document Freedom Day, a promotion of non-proprietary standards like Open Document Format. Around the world, small groups of free and open source software (FOSS)users are holding events to educate others about the importance of this issue, and The Free Software Foundation has launched a campaign to encourage supporters to politely refuse attachments sent in proprietary formats like Microsoft Office\u2019s. And, inevitably some people are saying these efforts are useless \u2013 and proving that they miss the point.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a style=\"color: #000 !important; text-decoration: none !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/rcweir\">tags<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/rcweir\/ODF\">ODF<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/press.redhat.com\/2010\/03\/31\/celebrate-document-freedom-day\">Red Hat News | Celebrate Document Freedom\u00a0Day!<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">&#8220;Today marks the annual observance of Document Freedom Day (DFD), a global day for document liberation. Red Hat is proud to support this grassroots effort to educate the public about the importance of Open Document Formats and Open Standards. Fostering open standards and encouraging innovation support Red Hat\u2019s core values. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a style=\"color: #000 !important; text-decoration: none !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/rcweir\">tags<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/rcweir\/ODF\">ODF<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/lwn.net\/Articles\/381143\">OpenOffice.org celebrates Document Freedom Day [LWN.net]<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">&#8220;March 31st is Document Freedom Day (DFD), a day for document liberation marked around the world. It will be a day for us all to educate our friends and neighbours of the importance of open document formats. OpenOffice.org uses the OpenDocument Format (ODF), and that means at least one hundred million people around the world use it at home, at work, at school: everywhere. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a style=\"color: #000 !important; text-decoration: none !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/rcweir\">tags<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/rcweir\/ODF\">ODF<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/odf.cenatic.es\">ODF Plugfest &#8211; Granada 2010<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">&#8220;La hist\u00f3rica capital andaluza ha sido elegida para celebrar la tercera edici\u00f3n del congreso mundial ODF Plugfest, que tendr\u00e1 lugar del 15 al 17 de abril en la Universidad de Granada organizado por NOiV del Gobierno de Holanda, Fedict del Gobierno de B\u00e9lgica, CENATIC (Centro Nacional de Referencia de Aplicaci\u00f3n de las Tecnolog\u00edas de la Informaci\u00f3n y la Comunicaci\u00f3n basadas en Fuentes Abiertas), la empresa especializada en interoperabilidad OPENTIA, y la Universidad de Granada, bajo el amparo del comit\u00e9 de estandarizaci\u00f3n ODF de OASIS. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a style=\"color: #000 !important; text-decoration: none !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/rcweir\">tags<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/rcweir\/ODF\">ODF<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fsf.org\/news\/why-im-rejecting-your-email-attachment\">Why I&#8217;m rejecting your email attachment \u2014 Free Software Foundation<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">&#8220;The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today launched a campaign calling on all computer users to start politely rejecting email attachments sent in secret and proprietary formats: for freedom and the good of the web!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a style=\"color: #000 !important; text-decoration: none !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/rcweir\">tags<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/rcweir\/ODF\">ODF<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/goinggnu.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/31\/document-freedom-day\">Document FreeDom Day \u00ab Going GNU<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">&#8220;All the IT world is revolving around the Documents. Documents are the carriers of the Information. And when those Documents are in the proprietary format like DOC,XLS,PPT, DocX, XLSX, PPTX, we are bounded to a specific software to open those files \u2013 MS Office. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a style=\"color: #000 !important; text-decoration: none !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/rcweir\">tags<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/rcweir\/ODF\">ODF<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.odfalliance.org\/blog\/index.php\/site\/dfd2010_chrismoore\">Document Freedom Day Interview with Chris Moore, CIO, City of Edmonton<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">&#8220;Several municipal governments in Canada have recently made great strides towards embracing open standards, and open document formats.  In honor of Document Freedom Day (DFD) 2010, the ODF Alliance interviewed Chris Moore, CIO of the City of Edmonton, and one of the leading-edge CIOs in the region.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a style=\"color: #000 !important; text-decoration: none !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/rcweir\">tags<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/rcweir\/ODF\">ODF<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/students.coe.hawaii.edu\/@api\/deki\/files\/168\/=ODFIntro.swf\">ODF Video Tutorial (12 minutes, Flash)<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">&#8220;Learn more about file format standards, what ODF is, advantages for using ODF, and more! &#8220;<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a style=\"color: #000 !important; text-decoration: none !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/rcweir\">tags<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/rcweir\/ODF\">ODF<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\">Diigo<\/a>. 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