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Posted in America, Apple, Europe, Google, Microsoft, Office Suites, Open XML, OpenDocument, OpenOffice, Standard, Wikipedia at 6:01 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: Overview encompassing 3 weeks of ODF progress and victories
IT has been a long time since our last ODF update, so here is a long post catching up with key events and developments.
According to Peter Krantz, a seminar on ODF took place at Copenhagen Business School one week ago. Bart Hanssens and others noticed it and Hanssens has added this event to the ODF Web site at XML.org.
=> ↺ According to Peter Krantz | ↺ Bart Hanssens | ↺ others | ↺ added | ↺ event
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Date: 12 Jan 2010 – 09:30 – 15:00 Event Type: Conference
According to published reports in Norwegian and in English, Norwegian Broadcasting moves to OpenOffice.org and ODF. This is great news, but it’s nowhere as big as the news from Munich, which was mostly covered in German (rarely in English). Coverage includes:
=> ↺ published reports in Norwegian | ↺ in English | ↺ Norwegian Broadcasting moves to OpenOffice.org and ODF | ↺ in English
Umstieg auf ODF in der Stadtverwaltung München komplettODF es el formato de documentos oficial en MunichMünchner Verwaltung hat auf offenes Dokumentenformat umgestelltMunchen áttér ODF-reMünchen Linux/Open Source projektje jobban fut mint valahaODF es el formato de documentos oficial en MunichODF es el formato de documentos oficial en MunichODF es el formato de documentos oficial en MunichMunich se inunda de documentos ODFMunich trabaja oficialmente con ODFODF es el formato de documentos oficial en MunichMunich completa la migración al formato ODFMunich completa la migración al formato ODF[Alemania] ODF es el formato de documentos oficial en MunichLiMux: München erreicht weiteren MeilensteinUmstieg auf ODF in der Stadtverwaltung München komplett
There is a lot more about this coming from individual people, with one person saying: “congrats to the #limux team for the complete switch to #odf #linux”
=> ↺ saying
Wikipedia has been updated to reflect on this and the debate carries on. Over in Denmark, a decision on open standards was said to be on the eve of a final decision after the scandals. According to a rough translation from Denmark, Midtjylland is turning to ODF and possibly leaving Microsoft Office. They cite problems with interoperability between Microsoft’s versions of Office. So typical.
=> ↺ has been updated to reflect on this | ↺ the debate carries on | ↺ said to be | the scandals | ↺ a rough translation from Denmark
Some people still wonder what software is good for ODF support and Sun releases ODF Plugin 3.1 for Microsoft Office, which includes support for ODF 1.2. Microsoft itself supports MSODF, which is not ODF [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7].
=> ↺ still wonder | ↺ ODF Plugin 3.1 for Microsoft Office | ↺ includes support for ODF 1.2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7
There is also freeware and GPL-licensed software that adds ODF support to Microsoft Office.
=> ↺ freeware | ↺ GPL-licensed software | ↺ adds ODF support to Microsoft Office
Drupal’s support of ODF was mentioned here before, but here it is again in some blog posts and in the ODF Web site, sitting there alongside another new page about OfficeReader (also see OffiViewer).
=> ↺ support of ODF | ↺ in some blog posts | ↺ in the ODF Web site | ↺ another new page | ↺ OffiViewer
“Jesper Lund Stocholm and his friends from Microsoft are generally still trolling ODF, as usual.”Sander Marechal adds an anonymiser to Officeshots and the Microsoft provocateur Jesper Lund Stocholm trolls such a feature nonetheless.
=> ↺ adds an anonymiser to Officeshots | Microsoft provocateur Jesper Lund Stocholm | ↺ trolls such a feature nonetheless
Jesper Lund Stocholm and his friends from Microsoft are generally still trolling ODF, as usual. It seems as though Alex Brown and his buddies from Microsoft are bound to make another BSI fiasco. The Internet never forgets.
=> ↺ generally | ↺ trolling ODF | ↺ Alex Brown | ↺ his buddies from Microsoft | ↺ another BSI fiasco | never forgets
A Microsoft-sponsored ODF seminar (yes, from the company that attacks ODF) is to take place, according to Microsoft’s ODF-hostile trolls. Unlike IBM for example, Microsoft still wishes to eliminate ODF. That’s just its business objective.
=> ↺ Microsoft-sponsored ODF seminar | ↺ ODF-hostile trolls | ↺ IBM for example
Over in Brazil, there is a debate about ODF [OGG]. A rough translation of some coverage says that the “The director of the ODF Alliance Jomar Silva, @Homembit, was a guest at the table discussion on memory International Seminar of the Forum of Brazilian Digital Culture.”
=> ↺ in Brazil | ↺ a debate about ODF | ↺ rough translation of some coverage
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Over in the UK, the OSA’s Mark Antony is told that politicians can be believed “they’re sincere when Whitehall is running on Ubuntu & documents on govt. websites are available in ODF…”
=> ↺ is told
“Currently, Microsoft does not properly support ODF and it still treats it like a second-class citizen.”SJVN has his personal interpretation of the impact of the i4i decision [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]. “Maybe in the aftermath of the i4i decision,” he argues, everyone will “just have to bite the bullet & support ODF.” Currently, Microsoft does not properly support ODF and it still treats it like a second-class citizen. Google too has some catching up to do, based on D. R. Evans, not to mention Apple, which has been helping Microsoft against ODF. As one person put it earlier this month, “ISO’s current defect report for ISO 29500 (OOXML) has 809 pages. That are 71 pages more than the full specification of ODF 1.1! !” Miguel de Icaza helped Microsoft address some of these errors, but since then he has been crowned and named Microsoft MVP [1, 2]. He’s like part of that company.
=> ↺ his personal interpretation | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | ↺ has some catching up to do | ↺ not to mention Apple | helping Microsoft against ODF | ↺ put it earlier this month | 1 | 2
The UX OpenOffice.org blog marks the beginning of the new year and reports from the UX meeting in Hamburg [1, 2] while ZDNet Germany writes about KOffice 2.1.1 (there’s more about Lotus Symphony). Bart Hanssens writes about ODF content at FOSDEM. He is preparing a talk and he has also uploaded a new draft of ODF 1.1 Interop Profile. His colleague Dennis Hamilton is happy about it.
=> ↺ marks the beginning of the new year | ↺ 1 | ↺ 2 | ↺ writes about KOffice 2.1.1 | ↺ more about Lotus Symphony | ↺ writes about ODF content at FOSDEM | ↺ preparing a talk | ↺ uploaded a new draft of ODF 1.1 Interop Profile | ↺ is happy about it
Our reader The Mad Hatter is making valuable information future-proof right about now:
Open Formats – I’m Moving all Mom’s Poetry to Open Document Format[...]Of course if you do want access to Mom’s poetry, you can just go to OpenOffice.Org, and download Open Office at no cost. There’s no reason you can’t have both Microsoft Office and Open Office installed on the same computer.
In summary, even though there are no major ODF events, this international standard continues to develop and be adopted all around the world. █
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