InitMarketing Customers Win Open Source Prizes, DCOS Statement on Procurement, PenOffice 3.1 supports Handwriting, Mozilla funds Theora Development: open source links, 29-01-2009

Two InitMarketing Customers Win Open Source Business Award – Two Initmarketing customers won prizes. I was partially involved with Stephen Walli to write todoyu business plan, and I really enjoyed it!

Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards (DCOS) Statement on Procurement in Support of Interoperability and Open Standards – On line the text of “The Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards (DCOS) Statement on
Procurement in Support of Interoperability and Open Standards” emerging from the 2008 IGF in Hyderabad. It includes a list of endorsers, to join it send an email to igf-dcos[at]keionline.org.

PenOffice 3.1 adds tablet PC handwriting support to OpenOffice.org 3.0 – PhatWare has released a new version of PenOffice, a handwriting recognition utility for touchscreen based computers running Windows. It costs $59.95 though.

why open video?Mozilla has given a $100,000 grant towards development of the Theora open video technology. Looking forward to see if it helps to make it a real standard.