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The State of ODF in OASIS
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| A few statistics you might find interesting on the level of participation in
| OASIS TC's related to ODF, based on a tally I did this morning:
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| * The three ODF TC's have 81 members from 28 corporations/organizations,
| as well as 9 individual members. This count does not include the even
| larger number of OASIS members who are "observers" in these TC's.
| * Large companies with participants in these TC's include IBM, Google,
| Sun, Microsoft, Nokia, Oracle, Intel, RedHat, etc. a virtual "Who's Who"
| of the tech sector.
| * Members reside in 13 different countries.
| * 16 TC members are also members of their JTC1 or JTC1/SC34 NB's. A total
| of 7 NB's currently have members in the ODF TC's.
| * The TC's and SC's had 95 meetings in 2008 and their current schedule
| calls for a combined 10 hours of teleconferences per month.
| * The main ODF TC had 439 person-hours of meetings in 2008.
| * The mailings lists for the TC's received 2,594 posts in 2008, including
| 95 agendas and 95 meeting minutes.
| * ODF's public comment list received 603 comments in 2008.
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| So 2008 was a good year, with robust participation from a wide range of stake
| holders in the development, maintenance and promotion of ODF in OASIS.
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/01/state-of-odf-in-oasis.html
Recent:
LCA2009: Why ODF should be the chosen one
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| It is difficult to know whether Louis Suarez-Potts, community manager at
| OpenOffice.org, was conscious at any point today of the irony of criticising
| proprietary software while making a presentation using a MacBook.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/22826/1090/
Four alternatives to Microsoft Office
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| Microsoft Office is so common that very few computer users are even aware
| that there are many good, and often free, alternatives to the software. Here
| are four of the better alternatives.
|
| OpenOffice.org
|
| This has to be the number one alternative to Microsoft Office. The open
| source productivity tool includes all of the features offered by MS Office
| but for free. Version 3.0 of OpenOffice was released earlier this year and it
| includes full compatibility with documents created in Microsoft Office, the
| biggest stumbling block to switching to a new office suite.
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http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Software/6436.html
ODF Annual Report 2008
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| The OpenDocument Format Alliance (ODF Alliance) is an
| organization of governments,
| academic institutions, associations and
| industry dedicated to educating policy makers, IT
| administrators and the public on the
| benefits and opportunities of ODF. Launched in March
| 2006, the ODF Alliance includes 584
| member organizations in 63 countries.
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http://www.odfalliance.org/resources/Annual-Report-ODF-2008.pdf
Open Document Format Has Been Accepted By 16 Governments
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| The Open Document Format continues to gain ground with governments as the
| format in which they wish to create important documents, despite Microsoft's
| Office format, OOXML, being recognized as an international standard as well.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/enterpriseapps/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=XVB21TSOTSDSSQSNDLPCKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=212700444&_requestid=293222&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_Windows&_requestid=442662
http://tinyurl.com/99y9um
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