Tuesday September 30, 2008 
The collected occasional commentary by Peter Korn, Accessibility Architect at Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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Peter Korn's Weblog The collected occasional commentary by Peter Korn, Accessibility Architect at Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
Tuesday September 30, 2008 odt2dtbook, Vincent, and Dominique take gold[This seems to be the month of medals - perhaps it has something to do with the recent Olympics in Beijing...] I just heard that Vincent Spiewak and Dominique Archambault of the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris have "taken the gold" for their work on the ODF to DAISY DTBook OpenOffice.org extension, as part of the Innovation in Open Source Community Award Program. As such, Dominique, Vincent, and the odf2dtbook project share part of the $1 million in Open Source Community award monies. Congratulations Vincent & Dominique! I encourage you to listen to an interview with Sun's Simon Phipps and several of the award winners (including Dominique and Vincent). Also worth checking out is a video showing how to use odt2dtbook to create DTBooks from within OpenOffice.org. Regular readers may recall that I first mentioned this work last May, just a few days after Vincent posted the extension on the new OpenOffice.org extensions website. Since then the various versions have been downloaded thousands of times, enabling many many people to publish DAISY books without having to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on proprietary authoring environments. Truly a worthy project! (2008-09-30 20:26:47.0) Permalink Comments:
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