http://fussnotes.typepad.com/fr0mat/ official blog of the OpenDocument Foundation en-US Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:18:04 -0500 http://www.typepad.com/ noofficial blog of the OpenDocument Foundation http://fussnotes.typepad.com/fr0mat/2007/11/gary-gives-some.html http://fussnotes.typepad.com/fr0mat/2007/11/gary-gives-some.html ... in response to discussions on ZDNet ... 2.2.1.1. da Vinci here gary.edwards - 11/03/07 Thank you John. Just because we are garage challenged doesn't mean we can't find the back door to the big house :) The larger issue... CDF Sam Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:18:04 -0500 http://fussnotes.typepad.com/fr0mat/2007/11/press-coverage-.html http://fussnotes.typepad.com/fr0mat/2007/11/press-coverage-.html Ryan Paul (Ars Technica) segphault@arstechnica.com "OpenDocument Foundation Drops Support for ODF, backs obscure W3C format CDF" Katherine Noyes (ECT) "OpenDocument Foundation Abandons Namesake Format" Mary Jo Foley (ZDNet) "ODF Infighting Could Help OOXML" Liz Montalbano (ComputerWorld) "ODF backer abandons file... CDF Sam Sat, 03 Nov 2007 10:52:38 -0400 http://fussnotes.typepad.com/fr0mat/2007/08/game-over-odf.html http://fussnotes.typepad.com/fr0mat/2007/08/game-over-odf.html Our difficulties with the direction of ODF development at the OASIS TCs will be easier for our friends and competitors to understand with Gary & marbux's post on LinuxWorld, "Game over for OpenDocument?" (July 23, 2007). There is in particular... Massachusetts ITD ODF the Plugin Sam Mon, 06 Aug 2007 11:20:51 -0400 http://fussnotes.typepad.com/fr0mat/2007/03/novaticaupgrade.html http://fussnotes.typepad.com/fr0mat/2007/03/novaticaupgrade.html Gary, Sam & marbux of the OpenDocument Foundation contributed an extensive article to the ODF issue of Novatica-Upgrade magazine (November-December 2006). The hardcopy and early online versions came out at first in Spanish, and are now offered in PDF in... ODF Sam Sat, 24 Mar 2007 10:43:53 -0400 http://fussnotes.typepad.com/fr0mat/2007/03/the_danes_pick_.html http://fussnotes.typepad.com/fr0mat/2007/03/the_danes_pick_.html John Gøtze, lecturer at Copenhagen Business School and influential member of the Open ePolicy Group, writes in the Danish online journal for IT professionals, Version2, about the OpenDocument Foundation's ODF Plugin work (which includes the ODF Plugin for MS Office,... the Plugin Sam Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:53:00 -0400 http://fussnotes.typepad.com/fr0mat/2007/02/running_on_odf_.html http://fussnotes.typepad.com/fr0mat/2007/02/running_on_odf_.html Gary's post covers the OpenDocument Foundation's ideas of perfect conversion fidelity developed for Massachusetts ITD's requirements. Read in extensive detail here about how the Microsoft Office Open XML format works, its built-in limitations of interoperablity and how the Foundation's da... ODF the Plugin Sam Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:58:42 -0500 http://fussnotes.typepad.com/fr0mat/2007/02/odf_as_the_perf.html http://fussnotes.typepad.com/fr0mat/2007/02/odf_as_the_perf.html Gary's post is long but edifying, covering how to add native ODF capabilities to MS Office via the OpenDocument Foundation's ODF Plugin for MS Office. ODF the Plugin Sam Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:49:46 -0500 http://fussnotes.typepad.com/fr0mat/2006/11/cto_is_blogging.html http://fussnotes.typepad.com/fr0mat/2006/11/cto_is_blogging.html Florian Reuter has started blogging. His first blog entry (14 Nov 2006) mentions his recent work background and clarifies his employment with Novell and his ongoing contributions to the work of the OpenDocument Foundation. Follow Florian's feed (RSS, Atom) for... ODF the Plugin Sam Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:17:44 -0500 http://fussnotes.typepad.com/fr0mat/2006/07/plugin_default_.html http://fussnotes.typepad.com/fr0mat/2006/07/plugin_default_.html The Foundation's ODF Plugin permits users or administrators to set MS Word to default to the ISO OpenDocument Format (.odt). Fig. 1: (Word 2003) Under Tools -> Options, Save tab in Word, you can change the default to .odt as... RFi the Plugin Sam Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:43:41 -0400 http://fussnotes.typepad.com/fr0mat/2006/07/plugin_transpar_1.html http://fussnotes.typepad.com/fr0mat/2006/07/plugin_transpar_1.html The Foundation's Plugin for Word permits the user to save a text document within the Word application in the ISO OpenDocument Format (.odt). Fig. 1: (Word 2000) File -> Save As wizard now includes the .odt extension as if it... RFi the Plugin Sam Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:09:08 -0400 nonadult