Wikis Go Printable
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| The third stage, planned for mid-2008, will be the addition of the
| OpenDocument format for word processors to the list of export
| formats. "Imagine that you want to use a set of wiki articles in the
| classroom. By supporting the OpenDocument format, we will make it easy for
| educators to customize and remix content before printing and distributing it
| from any desktop computer," Sue Gardner explained. This work is funded
| through a US$40,000 grant by the Open Society Institute.
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http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikis_Go_Printable
Major Aussie ISP Telstra BigPond shafts open source OpenOffice
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| Australia’s largest Internet service provider Telstra BigPond has removed the
| free open source office suite OpenOffice from its unmetered file download
| area following the launch of its own, free, hosted, office application,
| BigPond Office.
|
| [...]
|
| Our reader was outraged by Telstra’s move, which he sees as an attack on the
| open source software movement.
|
| “The principle of the matter upsets me,” he said. “The fact that BigPond has
| removed previously allowed open source software is un-ethical. They are
| discriminating against me, even though I pay the same as other customers.
| They are attacking the Free Software movement.”
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http://tech.blorge.com/Structure
%20/2007/12/18/major-aussie-isp-telstra-bigpond-shafts-open-source-openoffice/
Related:
South Africa, Netherlands and Korea striding toward ODF
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| France is making the strongest move to ODF and its native office suite,
| OpenOffice. Nearly half a million government employees are being switched to
| OpenOffice.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1351236114&rid=-50
ODF Alliance hails record growth in application support for ODF
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| In total, there are now more than two dozen ODF-supporting text, spreadsheet,
| and presentation applications announced in the past three months
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http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/10/26/odf-alliance-hails-record-growth-application-support-for-odf/
ODF a National Standard in Korea
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| The proposal for ODF to be accepted as a Malaysian Standard by SIRIM,
| Department of Standards Malaysia and ultimately the Minister of Science,
| Technology & Innovation is dormant for more than a year now. Four months
| after the Malaysian proposal went to sleep, Italy made ODF a National
| Standard. Eight months after that, Korea has followed suit. With this Korean
| news, perhaps the Malaysian proposal will be awakened.
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2007/11/odf-a-national-.html
Obama Voices Support for ODF
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| OpenDocument Format supporters are welcoming presidential hopeful Sen. Barack
| Obama's promise to put government data online in universally accessible
| formats should he be elected.ODF a National Standard in Korea
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2219248,00.asp
Open IT has arrived: US presidential candidates campaigning for it
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| When U.S. presidential candidates start promoting their open-source and
| open-document platforms, you know that the open-source movement has finally
| arrived.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9820884-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
South Africa adopts ODF as govt standard
,----[ Quote ]
| The South African government yesterday announced the adoption of OpenDocument
| Format (ODF) as a standard for government communications.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=$id&src=digg
Malaysia formally embraces open doc format
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| The Malaysian government today announced plans to adopt open standards and
| the Open Document Format (ODF) within the country's public sector.
|
| [...]
|
| In July this year, Japan became the first country in the Asia-Pacific region
| to embrace open software standards. Last August, the United Nations urged
| countries in the region to adopt the ODF.
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62030781,00.htm
Government of Japan Embraces Open Software Standards
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| The OpenDocument Format Alliance (ODF Alliance), the leading organization
| advocating for openness and accessibility to government documents and
| information, today congratulated Japan for adopting a policy under which
| government ministries and agencies will solicit bids from software vendors
| whose products support internationally recognized open standards.
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http://www.govtech.com/gt/126612?topic=117674
Netherlands Picks ODF
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| Frank Heemskerk, Minister of Economic Affairs, announced today that ODF will
| be the standard for reading, publishing and the exchange of information for
| all governmental organisations. The deadline is January 2009.
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http://gotze.eu/2007/09/netherlands-picks-odf.html
OpenDocument and Qt fonts goodness
,----[ Quote ]
| Like South Africa Adopts ODF, German Foreign Office comes out in favor of ODF
| and there are various articles going over how Holland and Belgium are
| steadilly switching governments but also schools over to ODF.
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http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2007/11/10/opendocument-and-qt-fonts-goodness/
Opendocument_adoption
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| Contents
|
| * 1 United States
| o 1.1 Massachusetts
| + 1.1.1 References
| o 1.2 Other states and organizations in the US
| + 1.2.1 References
| * 2 Europe
| o 2.1 EU Definition of an open standard
| o 2.2 United Kingdom
| + 2.2.1 Bristol City Council
| o 2.3 Belgium
| o 2.4 Finland
| o 2.5 Slovakia
| * 3 Other governments
| o 3.1 Australia
| o 3.2 India
| o 3.3 Japan
| o 3.4 Malaysia
| o 3.5 Peru
| o 3.6 Vietnam
| o 3.7 Other
| * 4 See also
| * 5 References
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opendocument_adoption
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