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Monday, 30 Apr 2007
Michael Brauer
By tomorrow, on May 1st, 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
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Friday, 05 Jan 2007
Michael Brauer
Bob Sutor commented IBM's "no" vote for the ECMA Office Open XML file format a month ago in his blog as follows: "ODF is about the future, Open XML is about the past. We voted for the future." (see here for the full blog entry).
This comment reminded me of a similar statement I made myself a couple a times in the past: "ODF is designed for the future, not the past.".
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Thursday, 21 Dec 2006
Michael Brauer
In the last couple of days, I have spent some time on reworking the XML project's web pages.
The page whose content changed most is the start page. It now contains a full list of the XML project's sub projects, as well as new references to opendocument.xml.org, the OASIS OpenDocument TC's web page, and to ISO.
The pages that list the project's modules and those that list filters, tools, articles and reports have been re-created in the OpenOffice.org Wiki. This should make it much easier to keep them up to date. If you are aware of a filter or an article that should be listed there, send us a note on the dev@xml.openoffice.org mailing list, and we will add it.
New in the Wiki is a list of the topics the XML project is working on, and of the topics where we are looking for contributors. Don't hesitate to contact us, if you are interested in contributing to one of these topics, or some other topic related to our project.
The last change effects the navigation in the pages. Like the API and UDK projects, the XML project now uses the “project_tools.html“ feature to enhance the navigation toolbar on the left side of the start page. We are using this to provide a direct access to the information in the Wiki. (Kay, thank you very much for the hint that the navigation bar is customizable).
I wish all of you Merry Christmas and a happy new year!
tags: iso26300 odf opendocument openoffice.org xml
Friday, 01 Dec 2006
Michael Brauer
The OpenDocument ISO standard is now published. It's official name is ISO/IEC 26300:2006.
You may get a copy of it in the ISO store. The OASIS version is of cause still available at the OASIS web site.
tags: iso26300 opendocument
