[odf-discuss] Fwd: ODF Alliance Newsletter

[marbux]

I appreciatively note that the Alliance's Global ODF Policy white
paper publicizes the Fellowship's Applications and Precedents pages.
Thank you, Marino.

Best regards,

Marbux

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From: Marino Marcich <mmarcich at odfalliance.org>
Date: Nov 9, 2006 12:09 PM
Subject: ODF Alliance Newsletter
To: marbux at gmail.com


Alliance Statement Regarding Microsoft/Novell Collaboration on Interoperability
Concerning document format compatibility, the Microsoft and Novell
promised to "work together on ways for OpenOffice and Microsoft Office
system users to best share documents, and both will take steps to make
translators available to improve interoperability between Office Open
XML and OpenDocument formats." Novell has also indicated that it will
develop the code necessary to bring support for Office Open XML
(OOXML) into OpenOffice, distribute the planned OOXML plug-in in their
edition of OpenOffice, and participate in the OOXML translator
project.
Alliance Statement - http://www.odfalliance.org/press/Release%2020061103.pdf
Novell Statement - http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/fileformats.html
Microsoft/Novell Press Release -
http://www.novell.com/news/press/item.jsp?id=1196

Alliance Details Global Policy Adoption and Cost Savings of ODF
The Alliance published two valuable new resources. A Global View of
ODF Policy describes the steps being taken by governments worldwide
that are considering or committed to ODF and open standards.
Preliminary Cost Assessments of Migrations to ODF-Supporting
Applications contains a summary of a variety of studies that quantify
the potential cost savings of adopting office software based on ODF.
Alliance Release - http://www.odfalliance.org/press/Release20061109.pdf
A Global View of ODF Policy -
http://www.odfalliance.org/resources/GlobalViewODFPolicy.pdf
Preliminary Cost Assessments -
http://www.odfalliance.org/resources/PrelimCostAssess20061109.pdf

ODF v1.1 Approved Incorporating Accessibility Enhancements
OpenDocument v1.1, which incorporates accessibility-related
enhancements, has been approved unanimously as an OASIS Committee
Specification. OpenDocument v1.1 is an official OASIS specification
now and available for implementation. Next up is ODF v1.2 dealing with
spreadsheet formula and other enhancements like metadata, which could
be completed as early as mid 2007.
ODF v1.1 Documentation -
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office#odf1
Peter Korn's Summary of Accessibility Advances in 2006 -
http://blogs.sun.com/korn/

ISO/IEC 26300 Now Under Publication
Officially approved as an international standard by ISO/IEC in May
2006, ODF is now an "international standard under publication" --
Stage 60 in ISO parlance.
ISO Stagetable - http://www.iso.org/iso/en/widepages/stagetable.html#60

ODF Applications Support Update: 1) phpMyAdmin v2.9.0; 2) Open eBook
Publication Container Format v1.0; 3) wikiCalc 0.96
Export functionality to OpenDocument Text and OpenDocument Spreadsheet
are among the improvements contained in just-released Version 2.9.0 of
phpMyAdmin, a web administration tool for MySQL databases.......The
International Digital Publishing Forum released a new standard for
packaging a digital publication, the Open eBook Publication Container
Format (OCF), which specifies a ZIP-based packaging format that is an
extension of OASIS' ODF....wikiCalc, the wiki spreadsheet, includes
support for the 109+ computational functions listed on
Openformula.org, part of Open Document Format (ODF).
phpMyAdmin v2.9.0.3 -
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/downloads.php?relnotes=1
OCF v 1.0 - http://www.idpf.org/ocf/ocf1.0/
WikiCalc 0.96 - http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2006/11/wikicalc_featur.html

New Members
Please welcome the following new members: The Knowledge Trust (USA);
MNCC Open Source Special Interest Group (Malaysia); Nederlandse Linux
Gebuikers Groep (The Netherlands); Open at work (Belgium); Qindel
(Spain); AFUL (France); Foundation for a Free Information
Infrastructure (FFII)(Germany); Radio Popular (Portugal); Intraneia -
Sistemas de Informação, Lda. (Portugal); SCIDERALLE (France); Pixart
SRL (Argentina); OpenAdvantage (UK); Technetra Corporation (USA); Free
Software Macedonia; QubeConnect Sdn Bhd (Malaysia); Beijing Jiaotong
University (China); dri - consultoria informática LDA (Portugal);
OpenLX (Indserve Infotech Pvt. Ltd.) (India); SKOSI (Slovak Open
Source Initiative); and Planeta Olea SL (Spain).

******************ODF IN THE NEWS***************************

China's own document standard: A clear message to US IT vendors?
November 9, 2006 at 8:02am
By David Berlind, ZDNet
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=3913

Sun to plug OpenDocument to global summit
31st October 2006
By Kevin Murphy
http://www.cbronline.com/article_news_print.asp?guid=AD0B215C-5207-43F8-9515-581C519D1D84

Open standards group to beat Microsoft at its own game
Government lobbying here we come
The RegisterBy Kieren McCarthy1 Nov 2006 10:04 GMT
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/01/open_standards_coalition/

Greeks bearing gifts
By Edward Macnaghten
Online on: 03/11/2006
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/1848

Where ODF stands in the EU
By: Tom Chance
http://business.newsforge.com/business/06/10/20/1621200.shtml?tid=110

When standards are political -- ODF (the Open Document Format)
The Huffington Post
By James Love October 21, 2006
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-love/when-standards-are-politi_b_32192.html

Leaked letter warns of open source 'threat to eco-system'
By Matthew Broersma, Techworld
http://www.techworld.com/applications/news/index.cfm?newsid=7109


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