The OpenDocument Fellowship has just updated its page that tracks government decision to adopt OpenDocument Format. Decisions to adopt OpenDocument have been announced or are pending in at least 40 nations around the globe. The page notes that the pace of ODF adoption has accelerated to an extent that comprehensive tracking of such decisions is no longer feasible.

Upgrade's VII/6 issue, which includes a monograph devoted to the OpenDocument format is now available online. Upgrade is the digital journal of CEPIS (Council of European Professional Informatics Societies). The article was guest edited by Jesús Tramullas-Saz, Piedad Garrido-Picazo and Marco Fioretti.

The English version is available now and the Spanish version, which will be published in Novática, the journal of the Spanish CEPIS society ATI (Asociación de Técnicos de Informática) will be available online soon.

by Carol Sliwa, Computerworld

Xandros, Inc. and O3Spaces, B.V., provider of O3Spaces Workplace collaboration for OpenOffice.org, StarOffice and MS Office, announced an agreement to provide OpenDocument and MS Office document collaboration, management and retention services for the forthcoming release of Xandros Server 2.0 - Standard Edition. O3Spaces Workplace provides any office user with a professional out-of-the-box extension for team and project collaboration. The O3Spaces plug-in for Xandros Server 2 will be available via the Xandros Networks update facility in April 2007.