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ODF: Setting the standard for office documents in the public sector
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| The rise of ODF and demand on the part of
| governments for âopennessâ in formats and
| interoperability of applications has
| coincided â not coincidentally in my view â
| with a surge in offerings (desktop, web-
| based, mobile) in the office productivity
| space, providing the public sector for the
| first time in recent memory with greater
| choice and potential cost savings. It is no
| wonder that more governments are jumping on
| the ODF bandwagon.
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http://opensource.com/government/10/3/odf-setting-standard-office-documents-public-sector
Document Freedom Day 2010
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| I think something becomes inevitable when
| the positive aspects are overwhelming.
| Consider Marion Marchichâs points in favor
| of ODF:
|
| * Avoiding lock-in
| * Thinking beyond the desktop
| * Ensuring long-term access
| * Saving money
| * Creating meaningful documents
| * Enabling interoperability
|
| Not only are these all things that users
| want, but they are things that are inherent
| in an open format, and which incur
| additional effort to achieve (if they are
| even posssible) in a closed proprietary
| format!
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http://www.the-source.com/2010/03/document-freedom-day-2010/
Presentations: The death of complexity
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| I donât know about you, but the
| presentations I create today are much
| simpler in design than those I created ten
| years ago. For example, I now never create
| presentations that include
|
| * animation and builds
| * slide transitions
| * sound
| * video
|
| [...]
|
| So just how much is really needed to create
| and represent presentations like those
| above? For the representation question, an
| appropriate query would be âwhat subset of
| the OpenDocument Format (ODF) is necessary
| to include all the information necessary,
| and nothing more?â.
|
| The creation side can vary quite a bit.
| Assuming you are using ODF, it would be
| possible though tedious to use a text
| editor and command line tools to create a
| file. I wouldnât want to do that and would
| expect something with a better user
| interface to make slide creation and reuse
| easy.
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http://www.sutor.com/c/2010/03/presentations-death-complexity/
BIS 3.0 Upgrade Successful with OpenDocument Support
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| With BIS 3.0, your BlackBerry now supports
| the following: OpenDocument presentations
| (.odp), OpenDocument spreadsheets (.ods),
| OpenDocument text (.odt), OpenDocument text
| templates (.ott) and Windows Media Audio
| (.wma).
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http://www.blackberrycool.com/2010/03/29/bis-3-0-upgrade-successful-with-opendocument-support/
Open Ballot: will a campaign to promote Theora and open codecs be a success?
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| A recent campaign to add more videos to
| Wikipedia is being used to try and push the
| advantages of the open source Theora video
| format over those encumbered by patents.
| For our imminent podcast, we're asking
| whether you think this campaign will work
| despite poor results in a recent quality
| comparison, or whether this issue is less
| about quality and more about freedom.
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http://tuxradar.com/content/open-ballot-will-campaign-promote-theora-and-open-codecs-be-success
Document Freedom Day 2010 in The Netherlands
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| Document Freedom Day is a global day for
| document liberation. It will be a day of
| grassroots effort to educate the public
| about the importance of Open Document
| Formats and Open Standards in general.
| Every year on the last wednesday in March,
| we celebrate his day. This year in The
| Netherlands in conferencecentre "Het
| Brandpunt" in Baarn, the former residence
| of the Dutch queen, we will have five
| speakers who will talk about the importance
| of open documents and open standards for
| the Dutch government.
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http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/133540/index.html
Groups in eleven EU member states participate in Document Freedom Day
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| In at least eleven EU member states, groups
| promoting the use of open standards and
| open source software, are preparing for
| Document Freedom Day, 31 March. With
| workshops, presentations and
| demonstrations, they aim to make computer
| users aware of open formats for electronic
| documents. Many groups will focus on public
| administrations and governments.
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http://www.osor.eu/news/groups-in-nine-eu-member-states-participate-in-document-freedom-day
Introduction to Document Freedom Day
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| This year on March 31, along with more than
| 200 groups in 60 countries, we will observe
| the third Document Freedom Day. This
| grassroots effort aims to educate the
| public about the importance of open formats
| and open standards.
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http://opensource.com/life/10/3/introduction-document-freedom-day
ODF Plugfest
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| The third in a series of plugfests, aimed
| at lead developers of commercial and open
| source ODF implementations, experts from
| local and regional governments, members of
| the OASIS TC's and other stakeholders.
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http://opendocument.xml.org/calendar-event/odf-plugfest-0
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