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[News] New Tools Ensure ODF Compliance, Helps Development

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Committee to ensure ODF apps conform to standard

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| IBM, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Google, Novell, Red Hat, the US Department of 
| Defense and the South African Department of Science & Technology are among 
| the organisations participating in the committee. Weir said that the group 
| would continue to welcome participation from all ODF stakeholders.   
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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/16/20081103/ttc-committee-to-ensure-odf-apps-conform-6315470.html

Sun, IBM Launch ODF Tools Initiative

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| Sun Microsystems and IBM are expected Wednesday to announce the Open Document 
| Format Toolkit Union, an open-source project aimed at making it easier for 
| developers to use ODF.  
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/153326/.html?tk=rss_news

ODF Toolkit Union

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| There's a substantial initial code donation there from Sun, including an ODF 
| DOM and a .Net ODF library, all licensed under the Apache License v2. There 
| is also an ODF validator, to help developers check the documents they create 
| are correctly constructed.   
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http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/odf_toolkit_union


Recent:

ODF Going Global

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| Marino Marcich of the ODF Alliance pointed out that there are now
| organisations from 62 countries represented in his membership, and I'm left
| with the strong of impression of a growing global community of practice in
| governments of every kind, both politically and geographically. From small
| roots ODF has grown to both a global movement and a strong technology,
| spreading wherever fair-minded people are willing to take a stand. It's been
| worth the trip.
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http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/odf_workshop_ii


Sweden: ODF made national standard

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| The Swedish Standards Institute (SIS) approved the Open Document Format (ODF)
| as a national standard, the ODF Alliance reported this week.
|
| "Sweden now joins Brazil, Croatia, Italy, South Korea, and South Africa as
| countries whose national standards bodies have formal approved this
| standard", the ODF advocacy organisation writes in this week's newsletter.
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http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/content/view/1247/4/lang,en


Brazil begins using the Open Document Format

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| The Brasília Protocol (now translated to English) started the process of
| implementation of the Open Document Format (ODF) within the Brazilian
| Government. The Protocol was signed during the opening of CONSEGI 2008 by
| Bank of Brazil, Serpro, Dataprev, Post Office and Telegraph State Company
| (ECT), INPE (Institute of Spacial Researches), INPI (Institute of
| Intellectual Property), Ministry of Exterior Relations and others. All the
| institutions who signed the protocol are assuming the commitment to use the
| ODF standard, make it available to society-at-large, exchange documents
| between themselves in this format and to share solutions in open format. The
| news is on ODF Alliance website.
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http://news.northxsouth.com/2008/09/28/brazil-begins-using-the-open-document-format/


ODF approved as Swedish Standard

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| Without making a press release or public announcement the Swedish Standards
| Institute has formally approved ODF 1.0 as a national standard. Only the “SS”
| prefix in SS-ISO/IEC 26300:2008 give away the status of the document.
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http://www.peterkrantz.com/2008/odf-approved-as-swedish-standard/


Brazilian Government Formalizes its Intention to Adopt ODF

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| Some very significant bodies of the Brazilian Government and government-owned
| corporations have just signed an agreement to adopt Open Document Format as
| their standard format for the exchange of electronic documents.
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http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/thompson/2008/08/28/brazilian-government-adopts-odf/


Melaka City Council's OSS migration and savings

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| In our ongoing series of Free and Open Source Software deployments in
| Malaysia, OpenMalaysiaBlog is proud to highlight the efforts of the City
| Council of Melaka. They were one of the first few departments to migrate
| completely to OpenOffice.org (98% of their 300 hundred seats. They need to
| retain a few copies of MS Office for some difficult proprietary files). Back
| in 8 December 2006, the Mayor of Melaka, Y.Bhg. Dato’ Haji Zaini bin Mohd
| Nor, presented "Successful Deployment Of OpenOffice In The Public Sector
| Seminar" and was very enthusiastic about OpenOffice.org.
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2008/08/melaka-city-cou.html


The State of Kedah moves to OpenOffice.org

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| A case study submitted to the Open Source Competency Center by the Center of
| Information Technology, Office of the Chief Minister and State Secretary of
| Kedah, has indicated that OpenOffice.org has been installed in 70% of the
| computers in the Kedah state government agencies. There are currently 2,202
| installed seats and by the looks of it, the numbers will just keep rising!
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2008/08/case-study-on-t.html


The entire State of Pahang moves to OpenOffice.org

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| Its just been made official that the State of Pahang is migrating all its
| productivity suites to OpenOffice.org. This succint memo from the State
| Secretary of Pahang entitled "Perlaksanaan Penggunaan Perisian OpenOffice.Org
| Di Semua Agensi dan Pentadbiran Negeri" (translated: "Implementation of
| OpenOffice.org suite in all State Agencies and Administrative centres")
| outlines the reasons for migrating, the benefits and how to proceed.
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2008/08/the-entire-stat.html


French hospital migrates to OpenOffice.org

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| According to this French article, the French hospital of Thiers is migrating
| its 150 desktops to OpenOffice.org in order to spend money on training
| instead of licenses.
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http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/french_hospital_migrates_to_openoffice


Huge Success for the ODF Community

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| OpenOffice.org, which is just one implementation of ODF, is currently being
| downloaded more than 1.2M times per week and being distributed by popular
| hardware products like the Asus Eee PC. Government organizations around the
| world are adopting OpenOffice.org and/or ODF and have started to help each
| other with their adoption challenges. Thus, ODF has become a "market force"
| that can't be ignored anymore. Thus, again, congratulations and thank you to
| all the people who have contributed to the success of OpenOffice.org and ODF
| so far! Well done!
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http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/huge_success_for_the_odf
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