Louis Suarez-Potts, an employee of Sun Microsystems, was speaking at the Australian national Linux conference in Hobart about the OpenDocument Format and OpenOffice.org and the reasons for using it. He argued strongly for the use of ODF in order to prevent lock-in, pointing out that people should start thinking about the consequences of trusting their data to proprietary formats. He gave the example of coal; 50 years ago nobody had ever given a thought to what the burning of coal would do to the environment and now the effects were being felt.

The OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications Technical Committee has approved ODF 1.0 Errata 01. The errata document includes references to ODF 1.0 Second Edition (ISO/IEC 26300) and N0492, the Japanese National Body comments.

Governments increasingly turn to OpenDocument Format as ODF Alliance marks unprecedented 2008.

AbiSource Corporation is to receive funding to improve the ODF compatibility of AbiWord,
the free software word processor. AbiSource Corporation, a company created by some of the AbiWord developers a few months ago, was approached by the Dutch non-profit organisation NLnet which was interested in seeing AbiWord gain better compatibility with the OpenDocument format. This would in turn would boost AbiWord's compatibility with OpenOffice.org.

IBM, Virtual Bridges and Canonical have announced availability of a Linux-desktop solution designed to drive savings by amplifying Lotus collaboration software and Ubuntu to a larger user base through virtualization.