Tag Archive for 'standard compliance'

An ODF Plugfest a Day Take the Doctor Away

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Roberto Galoppini
on July 1, 2009
in File Format, Italians do it and OpenOffice.org
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The Dutch government is showing the way to go: the Minister for Foreigng Trade Frank Heemskerk opened the now famous ODF Plugfest saying that a joint course of action for developing effective ODF support in each other’s products is needed.

Last week the Italian government announced a joint effort with Sun Microsystems to foster the use of StarOffice by local public administrations, but the press release doesn’t mention either ODF or open standards. Improvements are needed, the lack of a European coherent strategic vision towards standards’ compliance.

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ODF Interoperability: Rough Consensus and Running Code

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Roberto Galoppini
on June 22, 2009
in Europe eGov, File Format and OpenOffice.org
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Rajiv Shah and Jay Kesan wrote the paper “running code as part of an open standards policy” arguing that the “running code” requirement - i.e. multiple independent, interoperable implementations of an open standard - should be part of governments’ open standards policies.

Last week the Dutch government hosted the first ODF plugfest: creators, implementors and end-users met up to improve OpenDocument interoperability for real, and it worked out well.

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