ODF Seminar for Municipalities
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| Seminar on ODF, targeted at municipalities in Belgium.
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| Guest speakers include product managers from various vendors and
| representatives of federal and local governments.
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http://opendocument.xml.org/calendar-event/odf-seminar-for-municipalities
Open Standards definition: Is ODF etched on rock? No, not true
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| Being OOo available in source code, I started digging into it until I found
| the code responsible for index generation. Built a patch for myself and
| solved the index generation problem, at least at my end of the line.
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| [...]
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| What’s the moral? A truly public specification can be upgraded by the public
| at large, provided the suggestion is a sound one.
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http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/04/22/open-standards-definition-is-odf-etch-on-rock-no-not-true/
Recent:
Belgium also stuffed with Microsoft Business Partners?
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| Today was the vote in the Technical Committee in Belgium. The room was full
| of people I had never saw before. But when it comes to vote, the Yes men are
| there.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-48345/belgium-also-stuffed-with-microsoft-business-partners
BE, NL: governments will not use ISO OOXML
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| Asked to comment on last week's ISO approval for OOXML, Fedict's chief IT
| architect, Peter Strickx, said: "There will have to be multiple
| implementations, in order for us not to become dependent on a single vendor.
| It will also have to be compatible with open standards that we already use,
| in this case Open Document Format ODF."
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7562
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