The OASIS ODF Technical Committee invites you to help define the feature set of the next revision of ODF to follow version 1.2. Help us take "ODF-Next" to a higher stage of document evolution. Be creative. Push the envelope. Be provocative. Change the paradigm. Start a revolution. The only limits on our vision are our own.

NLnet, a philanthropic (private) not-for-profit organisation, has picked Identity, privacy & presence and Open Document Format as the two main areas it will focus its funding on in the next year and beyond. With these two themes the foundation wants to actively pursue the further enhancement of online privacy and standardisation in open document formats.

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.