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What is ODF?
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.
 
About OpenDoc Society

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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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."

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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: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or contact Michiel Leenaars at NLnet foundation:

Michiel Leenaars
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1098 VA Amsterdam
Netherlands
Phone: +31 (0)20 8884251
Cell phone: +31 (0)6 27050947

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Calendar
March 24 - 26, 2010 SC34 plenary meeting, Stockholm, Sweden
April 15 - 17, 2010 ODF Plugfest, Granada, Spain
June 21 - 25 20102010 Semantic Technology Conference, San Jose, USA.
August 2, 2009 XML for the Long Haul: Issues in the Long-term Preservation of XML, Montreal, Canada
August 3-6, 2009 Ballisage, Montreal, Canada
August 31 - September, 3rd 2010 OpenOffice.org conference, Orvieto, Italy
October 14 - 15, 2010 ODF Plugfest, Brussels, Belgium
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