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Award: Free Software Movement’s clarification
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| Activists of the Free Software Movement clarified that the recent reports in
| a section of the press saying that the withdrawal of Open Document Format
| (ODF) Alliance award to IT@School executive director Anvar Sadath had some
| political connotations, were completely misplaced.
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http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Award
+Free+Software+Movement%E2%80%99s+clarification&artid=8uiTNf9jBug=&SectionID=lMx/b5mt1kU=&MainSectionID=lMx/b5mt1kU=&SEO=&SectionName=tm2kh5uDhixGlQvAG42A/07OVZOOEmts
Recent:
Introducing Planet ODF
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| I have an early Document Freedom Day present for you. Planet ODF is a feed
| aggregator based on Sam Ruby's Planet Venus, which itself is a refactoring of
| Planet 2.0.
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/03/introducing-planet-odf.html
ODF Alliance Award Winners Announced
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| The OpenDocument Format (ODF) Alliance today recognized Vitorio Furusho from
| Parana, Brazil and Anvar Sadath from Kerala, India for their contributions to
| ODF community development and education.
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http://www.odfalliance.org/blog/index.php/site/odf_alliance_awards/
Fort Worth legislator pushes for open format in state documents
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| In recent years, a host of free programs using an open-source format called
| OpenDocument have emerged that allow users to create and edit office
| documents. Popular ones include OpenOffice.org and Google Docs, both of which
| can open files in most Microsoft Office formats.
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http://www.star-telegram.com/metro_news/story/1266591.html
Open Source, Open Standards and Re-Use: UK Government Policy
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| The UK Government has made it clear that Open Source and Open Standards, with
| a focus on re-use of software development and deployment, is to clearly and
| unequivocably be part of the decision-making for UK Government I.T.
| procurement and contracting. Also part of the policy is a clear committment
| to engage with the Free Software community and to actively encourage the
| development of "Government-Class" Free Software products.
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http://www.advogato.org/article/1002.html
The 21st ODF Toolkit Scenario
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| Back in 2006 I gave a short in talk at a KDE conference in Dublin on the
| topic of "A Standard ODF Object Model", essentially laying out my thoughts on
| why we needed an "ODF Toolkit". As part of that presentation I listed "20
| Prototypical App Dev Scenarios", my attempt to enumerate all the fundamental
| patterns of use for ODF. I did a blog post on this list later that year.
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/02/21st-odf-toolkit-scenario.html
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