The eight ODF Plugfest will take place on April 19th and 20th 2012 in Brussels (Belgium). This Plugfest is a two day interoperability workshop on open document exchange formats hosted by Mi...
https://robertogaloppini.net/2012/04/05/odf-interoperability-brussels-odf-plugfest-19-20-april-2012/
The second ODF Interoperability Workshop held in Orvieto gathered together more than 30 ODF experts, developers and stakeholders from public administrations to improve ODF interoperability. Peopl...
https://robertogaloppini.net/2009/11/13/second-odf-plugfest-notes-from-the-first-day/
Two days ago in Orvieto we announced that in two weeks the open source and open standards world will converge in Orvieto (Italy). The second ODF Plugfest (2-3 Nov) will open the week, bringing...
https://robertogaloppini.net/2009/10/24/openofficeorg-and-odf-plugfest-conference-2009/
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...
https://robertogaloppini.net/2009/07/01/an-odf-plugfest-a-day-take-the-doctor-away/
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 implem...
https://robertogaloppini.net/2009/06/22/odf-interoperability-rough-consensus-and-running-code/
The Italian OpenOffice.org Association (PLIO), welcomes the fact that Microsoft Office 2007 now natively support the Open Document Format, the file format for electronic office documents ...
Free Software Foundation Europe one year ago introduced the Document Freedom Day, and also this year a global day for document liberation is scheduled for 25 of March. The initiative promotes onl...
https://robertogaloppini.net/2009/02/15/open-standards-document-freedom-day-is-back-some-thoughts/
Today the OMAT conference hosted the “Standards and Interoperability“ session, and for the second time this year Adobe, Microsoft and the Italian OpenOffice.org community were discuss...
https://robertogaloppini.net/2008/11/13/open-standards-does-omat-bring-luck-to-interoperability/
Sun along with IBM announced the availability of the ODF Validator – a tool that validates files against ODF ISO/IEC 26300, ODF v.1.1 and ODF v1.2 – as part of a broader initiative th...
https://robertogaloppini.net/2008/11/07/open-standards-suns-odf-validator-and-the-odf-toolkit-union/
Now in Malaga is taking place the Open Source World Conference – an international gathering that after five editions is beginning to be considered as a must within the sector. This aftern...
https://robertogaloppini.net/2008/10/21/open-formats-the-importance-to-be-called-an-open-standard/