OpenDocument's 2nd Anniversary

By tomorrow, on May 1^st, two years will have passed since OpenDocument v1.0 was approved as an OASIS Standard. A good time to look back to what happened in the past two years, which is far more than I would have ever expected two years ago. I will try to give an overview of the events that happened regarding ODF the last two years below, but since so many things happened, it is not unlikely that I have overlooked the one the other event.

05/2005: OpenDocument (ODF) v1.0 was approved as an OASIS Standard.
09/2005: OASIS submitted ODF v1.0 to ISO.
01/2006: The OASIS OpenDocument Technical Committee (TC) launched its Accessibility Sub Committee.
03/2006: The OASIS OpenDocument TC launched its Formula SC.
03/2006: The OASIS ODF Adoption TC was founded.
04/2006: The OASIS OpenDocument TC launched its Metadata SC.
05/2006: OpenDocument was approved by ISO, were it became ISO/IEC 26300:2006.
05/2006: The Accessibility SC published the Accessibility evaluation of ODF v1.0.
09/2006: opendocument.xml.org was launched.
09/2006: The Metadata SC published the Metadata Use Cases and Requirements document.
02/2007: The ODF v1.1 specification, which integrates the findings of the accessibility evaluation, was approved as an OASIS Standard.
03/2006: The ODF Alliance was launched, starting with 36 member organizations.
01/2007: The OpenOffice.org ODF Toolkit Project was launched.
02/2007: Sun released the StarOffice 8 Conversion Technology Preview 1.0 for Microsoft Word, which adds ODF support to Microsoft Word.
03/2007: The ODF Alliance one year after its foundation has more than 370 members from 51 nations.
On an ongoing basis:
- Several ODF supporting groups and software projects were launched, for instance the OpenDocument Fellowship and the OpenDocument Foundation.
- The number of ODF (and OOo) deployments was and still is increasing. Overviews are available at opendocument.xml.org, the ODF Alliance, or the OpenDocument Fellowship.
- The number of products that support ODF is increasing constantly. Overviews can be found at opendocument.xml.org or Wikipedia.
- The OASIS OpenDocument TC and its sub committees have won many new members.

It will be interesting to see where we are in two more years.

tags: iso26300 odf opendocument