[odf-discuss] Items of interest (gleaned from various blogs)

[Jean Hollis Weber]

Conformance and Certification: The ODF Standard and Microsoft's 
Office Open XML Specification, Stephen Walli's blog
http://stephesblog.blogs.com/my_weblog/2007/01/conformance_and.html

Open Standards International Symposium (OSIS), scheduled for 
February 3, 2007, at Yale Law School in New Haven, CT, USA.
http://research.yale.edu/isp/eventsosis.html

Sam explains the importance of this symposium here:
http://fussnotes.typepad.com/plexnex/2007/01/yaleapalooza.html

"Expect this gathering to produce a set of guidelines that can 
become the reference for technology and other standards policies 
globally going forward. The Speakers' List reads like a Who's Who 
from the Standards Hall of Fame..."

3monkeys is running a series of technical articles "that will 
compare ODF and in particular the OpenOffice implementation and 
Microsoft Office and its various data formats".

OpenOffice ODF/.odt compared to Microsoft Word .doc
http://3monkeyweb.com/3monkeys/2006/12/29/openoffice-odfodt-compared-to-microsoft-word-doc/
"...efficiency of the .odt, .doc and .xml formats, with 
particular interest to native and compressible file sizes"

OpenOffice .odt Opened Up - Part 1: Overview
http://3monkeyweb.com/3monkeys/2007/01/12/openoffice-odt-opened-up-part-1/
"...investigate how certain elements of a document effect its 
size and overall efficiency".

Thanks to Sam Hiser and Benjamin Horst for these.

--Jean