Committees

OpenDocument is advanced by three Committees within OASIS:

• The OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) Technical Committee defines the specification as an open, XML-based file format for office applications. For more information, see the Committee charter and member list.

• The OASIS OpenDocument Format (ODF) Adoption Committee members collaborate to provide expertise and resources to educate the marketplace on the value of OpenDocument. By raising awareness of the benefits offered by OpenDocument, the Committee increases the demand for and availability of OpenDocument-conforming products, resulting in a greater choice of tools and platforms and expanding the OpenDocument community of users, suppliers, and developers. For more information, see the Committee charter and member list.

• The OASIS Open Document Format Interoperability and Conformance (OIC) Committee helps implementors create applications that conform to ODF. The OIC TC works to ensure that the growing number of ODF-compliant applications are able to interoperate. For more information, see the Committee charter and member list.

All three Committees operate under the RF on Limited Terms Mode of the OASIS IPR Policy.

OASIS Sponsor members represented on these Committees include:

• Adobe Systems
• Google
• IBM
• Intel
• Microsoft
• Novell
• Oracle
  
• Sun Microsystems
• U.S. Department of Defense

All Committees invite participation from new members. See Join OASIS for details.