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PARTICIPATE in ODF OLYMPIAD 2009
http://www.odfolympiad.org/
[fosscomm] Submissions to ODF Olympiad 2009 open today 20th September 2009
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| As you are all well aware , Open Document Format is an
| important standard for ensuring computer literacy and is
| fundamental to enabling computer education globally. ODF
| Olympiad was started on the advice of the then President
| of India, Shri Abdul Kalam, with the view to bring
| awareness regarding the open source amongst the schools.
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| We have been receiving overwhelming response from schools
| across the globe including countries like India, Malaysia,
| Indonesia, Nepal . We strongly believe that this contest
| will help the government and the schools in faster
| adoption of ODF . (The new FOSS based Informatics
| Practices curriculum, introduced by CBSE this year is one
| of the examples of the step towards this initiative. )
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http://lists.fosscom.in/pipermail/network-fosscom.in/2009-September/001427.html
IBM Gives MS Office the Boot, Moves to OpenDocument Format
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| Though Lotus Symphony is free to use (after providing a
| name and emailâfake credentials work fine), it is based on
| the OpenOffice.org 1.x source code, which was licensed more
| liberally than the current version and as a result, IBM is
| under no legal obligation to provide source code for any
| modifications. (Effective with OOo 3.0, source code is
| licensed under LGPL, requiring any additions to the source
| also be published.)
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http://www.openmediaboston.org/node/920
Recent:
DK: Municipality uses OpenOffice and saves a million DKK per year
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| The Danish municipality of Gribskov has saved two million DKK, about 270,000
| euro, over the past two years by switching the public administration and
| schools to OpenOffice, Michel van den Linden, responsible for IT in the
| municipality says in an interview with the Danish IT news site Computerworld.
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http://www.osor.eu/news/dk-municipality-uses-openoffice-and-saves-a-million-dkk-per-year
DK: Telecom Agency offers open source desktop to staff
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| The Danish National IT and Telecom Agency (ITST), part of the ministry of
| Science, Technology and Innovation, has started offering its staff the choice
| between a GNU/Linux based desktop or a proprietary desktop, announced
| Christian Lanng, head of the agency's IT and Infrastructure division, at its
| conference on open source and public administrations, held in Copenhagen on
| 19 March.
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http://www.osor.eu/news/dk-telecom-agency-offers-open-source-desktop-to-staff
Sanders expert report is ready
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| Helge Sander, Danish Minister of Science and Technology
| earlier this year asked an expert committee to look into
| the technical and legal implications of the introduction of
| two standards for documents in the government. The report
| is now ready.
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| [...]
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| In addition, the ISO approval of OOXML is concidered as the
| final conclusion that the OOXML is an open and appropriate
| standard. This despite the fact that even Dansih Standards
| recognizes that the approval process was perhaps not
| completely clean and OOXML might not be quite as qualified
| as it seems.
|
| The experts completely ignores the world around us. I
| believe that we in Denmark can't take such decisions
| without first looking around us. The countries which we
| usually compare ourselves with, may have been through
| similar problems. But the report is also completely
| ignoring this.
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http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2008/12/sanders-expert-report-is-ready.html
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