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Open Document Format (ODF) is an OASIS/ISO-standardised, vendor neutral file format that enables cross-platform collaboration between people and many different types of applications - from Office suites to server software. ODF is mature, future-proof and clean - as well as very versatile and user friendly. It provides a drop-in replacement for historically more troublesome proprietary file formats such as .doc, .wpd, .xls and .rtf. An increasing number of governments - such as the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Brazil and Denmark - are moving away from such single vendor-based file formats and have started using this international open standard. Be part of the revolution and join OpenDoc Society. |
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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. |
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| 14 May ODF workshop, Utrecht, The Netherlands | | 19 May ODF Seminar for Municipalities, Schoten, Belgium | | 30-31 May eLiberatica, Bucharest, Romania | | 28-31 May LinuxTag, Berlin, Germany | | 11-15 August Balisage 2008, Montreal, Canada | | 14-17 Oct. OOoCon 2008 2008, Beijing, China | |
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If you like what OpenDoc Society is trying to achieve, or if you want to learn more about this key technology and the state of the art technologies that use it, why not join? Membership fees are very low, and membership is even free for not-for-profits, open source projects, academic institutes and charities. Organisations are also welcome to join as participants, at similar attractive fees. If you want to start a chapter of OpenDoc Society in your region, contact us at:
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or contact Michiel Leenaars at NLnet foundation:
Michiel Leenaars
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1098 VA Amsterdam
Netherlands
Phone: +31 (0)20 8884251
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In the pressRead about OpenDoc Society in the global media, e.g. New York Times, China Post, The Guardian, Cuba Headlines... Continue Podcasts available The podcasts and presentations from the launch event in the Royal Library in The Hague are available! Hear Patrick Durusau (editor of ODF), ir. Karel de Vriend (Head of IDABC), Dr. Peter Vandenabeele (Fedict, Belgian Federal Government), Bert Bakker (director of CMC) and Frank Heemskerk (minister of Foreign Trade of The Netherlands) talk about the sea of documents and ownership of your own content, open standards in public administration, the rationale for the foundation of OpenDoc Society and the state fo interoperability. Continue Board announced The founding board of OpenDoc Society will consist of Bert Bakker (director of Center for Media and Communication - chair), Michiel Leenaars (director ISOC.nl, manager at NLnet foundation and policy advisor at the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research - secretary) and Bob Goudriaan (financial specialist and informal investor - treasurer). South-African Government chooses ODF Open Document format (ODF) became an official standard for South African government communications as of October 24th. The ODF standard is included in the government's Mininimum Interoperability Standards for Information Systems in government (MIOS). In the foreword to the document, department of public service and administration minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, says that "this updated version of MIOS contains an explicit definition of open standards as well as the inclusion of the ISO Open Document Format". ODF is one of three formats specificed for "Working Office Document formats". These are: UTF-8/ASCII formatted text, OpenDocument Format and comma separated values. http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1838 |
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