The ODF 1.2 specification, which aims to perfect the spreadsheet workflow, has been approved by the members of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)
Read more »Latvia: ODF acceptance mandatory
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Former open source evangelist at Sun, reported on his blog, on a presentation he had given at a conference in Latvia concerning the ODF. Speaking before him, a Latvian government official had made the announcement that, from now on, all government departments in Latvia must accept documents in ODF.
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Office Suite KOffice 2.3.0 Released
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Krita is now ready for professional artist use. A new slide sorter view and a new shape animations feature in KPresenter. Improvements of the core engine and plugins in the support of the OpenDocument Format. Especially text rendering has seen much work. A new report engine used in KPlato and Kexi.
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Leaving the OpenOffice.org project
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Today is a special day. I feel both sad and relieved, happy and somewhat disgusted. I have officially resigned from all my duties, roles and positions inside the OpenOffice.org project.
Read more »MS is Still Trolling ODF and Other FOSS Causes Using Fake ‘FOSS People’
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News about ODF, SC34 which is a farce, and some of the latest heckling from Microsoft proponents who masquerade as pro-openness or impartial
Read more »Divide and Conquer: How Microsoft Fractures Free and Open Source Software, GNU/Linux
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Latest examples of Microsoft's strategy, wherein it sends out affiliates to pretend to be FOSS people and then promote software patent deals, separation between Open Source and Free software, departure from the GPL, promotion of "open" core (proprietary) as "Open Source", and demotion of free/libre platforms like GNU/Linux along with free suites/formats like ODF
Read more »Mark Ballard Shows Why British Government Must Move to ODF as Doorway to Software Freedom
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Calls from within the United Kingdom to facilitate a promised migration to Free software, via international standards such as ODF
Read more »Indonesia is Moving to OpenDocument Format (ODF)
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Another Asian country decides to become vendor neutral when it comes to documents which government agencies handle
Read more »OpenDocument 1.2 available for review for 60 days
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The standard for the OpenDocument office file format is approaching version 1.2. The draft of the standard is now available on the web for public review
Read more »ODF 1.2 Begins Final 60-day Public Review
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A major milestone was reached for the OASIS ODF TC last week. The latest Committee Draft of ODF 1.2 (CD 05) was sent out for a 60-day public review.
Read more »ISO is Irrelevant and British Government Pushed to Support ODF
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New reminder of how Microsoft corrupted international standards and a call for action in the United Kingdom
Read more »Microsoft’s Attack on GNU/Linux and ODF Continues
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Latest new examples of Microsoft playing unfair and distorting facts
Read more »OOXML/ODF - The Next Stage is Unfolding in Norway
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In 2009, Norway decided that ODF was to be used, rather than OOXML, but called for further study and input from the IT industry, and I gather Microsoft put its shoulder to the wheel, and guess what? Now there is a new report (in Norwegian) that compared the two and concludes that neither is suitable, and both should be kept "under observation".
Read more »How to generate and update ODF spreadsheets without OpenOffice
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What if your boss demands a new version of a spreadsheet, with fresh data, every day? Should you enter them manually? No, if your data have a fixed structure and the spreadsheet can be in OpenDocument format (ODF)! If that's the case, it only takes a bit of shell and Perl scripting to generate automatically a new spreadsheet whenever the raw data change.
Read more »Why and how the OpenDocument format can save you a lot of time!
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Beside its openness, there is also one more reason why ODF is great for everybody who must produce a lot of office documents: ODF is really simple to generate or edit automatically. Even if you aren't a professional programmer, it takes very little effort to put together a script that generates or processes in any way texts, presentations or spreadshets in ODF format.
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