OpenDoc Society brings together individuals and organisations with a stake or interest in the openness and future of documents to learn from each other and share knowledge - about core technologies, available tools, policy issues, transition strategies, legal aspects and of course the latest innovations. Whether you are a developer, publisher, decision maker, educator, vendor, IT manager, academic, writer, archivist or just an involved citizen - OpenDocSociety.org brings you together with interesting like-minded people to learn from and cooperate with. OpenDoc Society is supported by a large number of organisations .

 The initiative for OpenDoc Society was taken by a number of individuals from various sectors of society, including science, education and research, software vendors, open source communities, arts and government. We are open to new countries and organisations to join. OpenDoc Society wants to build local human networks of experts and stakeholders in ODF from all areas. It want to be a leading organisation in spreading knowledge about ODF to society at large, through publications, workshops, masterclasses, tutorials for developers, decision makers, users and other stakeholders. It wants to foster and strengthen the ecosystem around ODF: from enterprise content management, assistive software for the visually impaired up to readers for cell phones and game consoles.

ODF support in Office 2007: end of an era

On Tuesday April 28 2009 Microsoft released SP2 of Office 2007, making its flagship Office product the last of the major office suites to move to ODF. "In a way it is the end of an era," says Bert Bakker, chair of OpenDoc Society. "Vendor based formats have dominated the last twenty five years of IT to the extreme point where billions of investments in software - even in entirely unrelated areas - were steered not by technical and security considerations but by what was used on the desktop productivity suites."

• Here comes Officeshots.org
• OOXML published
• NATO chooses ODF as mandatory standard
• Microsoft to support ODF not OOXML in Office 2007

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