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This is the official community gathering place and information resource for the OpenDocument Format (ODF) OASIS Standard (ISO/IEC 26300). Suitable for text, spreadsheets, charts, graphs, presentations, and databases, ODF frees documents from their applications-of-origin, enabling them to be exchanged, retrieved, and edited with any OpenDocument-compliant software or tool. This is a community-driven site, and the public is encouraged to contribute content.
Texas, Minnesota Eye Move to ODF
News: Submitted by carolgeyer on Wed, 2007-02-07 00:19. Last updated on Wed, 2007-02-07 00:21.
by Elizabeth Montalbano, InfoWorld
Paris plans to distribute 175,000 copies of OpenOffice to students
News: Submitted by carolgeyer on Fri, 2007-02-02 21:33. Last updated on Fri, 2007-02-02 21:35.
Region Ile de France (the country's capital city region, which includes Paris) announced plans to distribute 175,000 USB keys with Openoffice.org, Firefox, Thunderbird, and other open source software to high school students of the region. OpenOffice.org will be installed in every high school, allowing students to use the same software at school and at home. This is considered a major step forward for OpenDocument in France.
See the official PR (in French).
See the official PR (in French).
Open XML Translator for Microsoft Word Available
News: Submitted by carolgeyer on Fri, 2007-02-02 20:19. Last updated on Fri, 2007-02-02 20:22.
by Elizabeth Montalbano, InfoWorld
Novell Brainshare 2007
Event: Submitted by aclark on Tue, 2007-01-30 16:49. Last updated on Thu, 2007-08-23 13:43.
Location:
Salt Lake City, Utah, USADate:
18 Mar 2007 - 04:00 - 23 Mar 2007 - 13:00Event Type:
ConferenceNew ODF Toolkit Project announced by OpenOffice.org
News: Submitted by erwintenhumberg on Tue, 2007-01-23 15:20. Last updated on Tue, 2007-01-23 15:26.
A new ODF Toolkit project has just been announced by OpenOffice.org. Details about the project can be found on the project homepage and in Jürgen Schmidt's blog entry. The ODF Toolkit project should make it easier for developers to add ODF support to their applications.