Donnerstag Mai 08, 2008

New ODF API available
A new ODF API just became available. A first preview version of ODFDOM has just been released.
( Mai 08 2008, 01:56:13 PM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [0]

Freitag Mai 02, 2008

"ODF Validation for Dummies"
Here is Rob Weir's answer to Alex Brown's validation test.
( Mai 02 2008, 07:10:12 PM CEST ) Permalink

Mittwoch April 30, 2008

"Wiki page for OpenOffice adoption in Malaysia"
I just became aware of this "Wiki page for OpenOffice adoption in Malaysia". Very cool! I hope I'll soon find some time to copy the names to the OpenOffice.org "Market Share Analysis" wiki page and/or "Major OpenOffice.org Deployments" wiki page.
( Apr 30 2008, 01:40:03 PM CEST ) Permalink

Dienstag April 29, 2008

ODF Development using Perl, Python, Java, PHP, Ruby, etc.
In case you're a developer and are looking for libraries simplifying ODF development with technologies like Perl, Python, Java, PHP, Ruby, etc., you should check out this summary of ODF tools and libraries. BTW, most of these efforts are open source projects. Thus, if you have a little bit of spare time, feel free to join the projects!
( Apr 29 2008, 07:48:44 PM CEST ) Permalink

Freitag April 25, 2008

ODFDOM to become available in May 2008
I already mentioned jOpenDocument today. Here is another piece of news for developers. A first preview release of ODFDOM will become available in May 2008. In case you don't know what ODFDOM is, check out the ODFDOM wiki page on OpenOffice.org.
( Apr 25 2008, 02:39:24 PM CEST ) Permalink

"A pure Java library for OASIS Open Document files manipulation"
More and more ODF tools and libraries are emerging. I just came across jOpenDocument which sounds promising. On the homepage it describes itself as "A pure Java library for OASIS Open Document files manipulation". Developers should also keep their eyes open for more news from the OpenOffice.org ODF Toolkit Project. In addition, there are ODF tools available for Perl developers and for PHP developers (check out this and this). BTW, if you know of any tools for ODF development or applications supporting ODF, make sure they are listed at opendocument.xml.org.
( Apr 25 2008, 10:41:33 AM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [1]

ODF Seminar for Municipalities
On May 19th there will be an ODF seminar for municipalities in Schoten (Belgium). More details can be found here.
( Apr 25 2008, 10:27:38 AM CEST ) Permalink

Mittwoch April 23, 2008

City of Munich and German Federal Foreign Office start collaboration
According to this German article, the City of Munich and the German Federal Foreign Office have started to collaborate on the implementation of their open source and open standards strategies. I would not be surprised if other organizations decided to join the "alliance" as well. Anyway, very cool to see government organizations collaborate regarding the usage of open source and open standards.
( Apr 23 2008, 04:38:39 PM CEST ) Permalink

Dienstag April 22, 2008

ODF now national standard in South Africa
Great news from South Africa:
"Open Document Format (ODF) has been approved as a South African national standard by the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS).
According to Bob Jolliffe, of the Department of Science and Technology, ODF was approved on Friday last week, after a long evaluation process by the SABS department dedicated to standards assessment, Stanza (South African Standards)."
Found here.
( Apr 22 2008, 02:34:52 PM CEST ) Permalink

ODF development effort for KOffice sponsored
According to this announcement, the Dutch NLnet foundation decided to sponsor the ODF development effort for KOffice. Great news for the larger ODF ecosystem!
( Apr 22 2008, 02:31:43 PM CEST ) Permalink

Dienstag April 08, 2008

Gartner about ODF
"Silver said the market share for the Linux operating system and applications that use the Open Document Format is small but growing fast in emerging markets, where consumers and businesses lack large technology budgets. "They're much more price sensitive and don't have a pre-existing installed base that locks them into commercial products," said Silver [Gartner analyst Michael Silver]."
Found here.
( Apr 08 2008, 02:27:52 PM CEST ) Permalink

Mittwoch März 19, 2008

Germany upgrades ODF to "recommended"
The new version 4.0 of the document "Standards and Architectures for eGovernment Applications" (SAGA) by the German Ministry of the Interior now recommends ODF for text documents. In SAGA 3.0 ODF was listed as "under observation". Nice to see ODF being upgraded by the SAGA expert group!
( Mrz 19 2008, 05:50:30 PM CET ) Permalink

Freitag Februar 15, 2008

Dutch "government ISV" adds ODF support
If I understood this Dutch article correctly, the Dutch ISV Centric, which seems to very active in the public sector, is adding ODF support to their applications. Apparently the adoption of ODF by the City of Heerenveen and the City of Groningen had some impact on the decision.
( Feb 15 2008, 12:39:40 PM CET ) Permalink Kommentare [1]

Dienstag Januar 29, 2008

Arcor introducing web conferencing with ODF support
According to this German article, Arcor is introducing a new phone and web conferencing solution which supports sharing ODF documents among participants.
( Jan 29 2008, 02:26:15 PM CET ) Permalink

Montag Januar 28, 2008

Yet another reporting tool with ODF support
"Adding FastReport VCL to your application is a breeze. You need to put several necessary components on the visual form, then connect to needed data sources and make a report form. It's as easy as working in Corel Draw. The end user who got FastReport VCL in an application can edit templates and available reports, convert reports to 15 formats (such as PDF, XLS, RTF, and ODF), and send reports by email directly from the application."
Found here.
( Jan 28 2008, 03:40:45 PM CET ) Permalink Kommentare [1]