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"[W]e should all be pushing and saving documents as much as possible in the ODF file format. When you send a file out, you could send it in ODF, if the other person doesn't have it yet, then write yours in ODF, and then save later to another format, but send both pushing that person to ODF also (viral acceptance). Make ODF the default. Always import and work again in ODF."

"This article introduces the OpenDocument Format (ODF) and ODF Toolkit and the methodology for including the toolkit in your IBM® WebSphere® Portal 6.1 environment. We also show how to create an ODF solution for your IBM Lotus® Symphony™-generated ODF documents for an integrated WebSphere Portal and IBM Lotus Quickr™ environment."

"ODF .NET is Open Document Format API for .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework. ODF .NET supports Open Document Format standard as defined in the OASIS Open Document Format. ODF .NET allows you to write applications to create, modify and parse text documents and spreadsheets. The API is written in 100% managed C# code."

"a number of organizations and ODF implementors are working together to organize a second ODF Plugfest in parallel with the upcoming OpenOffice.org Con 2009, that will take place in Orvieto (Italy) in November. Tentative dates for the ODF Plugfest are 2-3 of November, stay tuned for more."

Version 0.9 of this ODF Python library has been released * Updated to ODF 1.1. * A csv2ods program * The ability to load ODF 1.2 files * Online manual (though not complete)

"I spent the last week in the beautiful Italian city of Orvieto in Umbria, a little over 100 km north of Rome. The reason for that was that something called the ODF Plugfest was arranged by the dutch organization Opendoc Society. The Opendoc Society is interested in spreading the OpenDocument Format (ODF) and in interoperability between different applications using ODF. I was there as a representative for the KOffice community and also for my company KO GmbH that sells services around KOffice and OpenDocument. With me from the KOffice community was Jos van den Oever, also from KO, and Thomas Zander from Nokia."

""We are glad to become part of OpenDoc Society," says Italo Vignoli, a member of The Document Foundation's steering committee, "Because we feel that the association's work of promoting interoperability between ODF implementations and sharing knowledge about best practices, fits together well with the mission of The Document Foundation to provide a full-featured Open Source productivity tool with strong ODF support. Interoperability is something that we - as a community - have to work on together and, with its fostering of events such as ODF plugfests and tools like Officeshots.org, OpenDoc Society has been a driving factor in this area"."

"Alternatively, I would have expected Microsoft to deal with confusing bits of the ODF specification by referring to existing implementations. How did OpenOffice.org deal with formulas in ODF 1.1? If nothing else, I would have liked to see the Excel team provide users with a pop-up dialog advising that their ODF spreadsheet formulas had been stripped out."

"The ODF Internationalization Test Suite includes more than 200 tests illustrating how to convert an ODF document to a translation file (like PO or XLIFF)."

"I think ODF is a very complex issue and maybe thats the reason why I did not find one movie that was getting the topic accross in a nice way. Most talks about ODF are highly technical or theoretically. I wish we would have something like some short 2-3 minute scenes where it is shown why MS Office is bad and OO.org and ODF is good."

"Be sure and make the upcoming free Web version of Office 2010 work with the world-standard Open Document Format (ODF) and the open source OpenOffice and its related alternatives from Day 1. The rest of the world believes in ODF and its lovely file compatibility to make it much easier for users anywhere to share their documents without vendor lock-in and problems. You began working on this in earnest with Office 2007 Service Pack 2, but its time to really hit the ball a mile. No more half attempts just to try to score some points. Instead, make ODF compliance a key feature and watch Office 2010 head out of the sales park. Besides, imagine the goodwill generated by such a statement of cooperation. Just do it."

"Be sure and make the upcoming free Web version of Office 2010 work with the world-standard Open Document Format (ODF) and the open source OpenOffice and its related alternatives from Day 1. The rest of the world believes in ODF and its lovely file compatibility to make it much easier for users anywhere to share their documents without vendor lock-in and problems. You began working on this in earnest with Office 2007 Service Pack 2, but its time to really hit the ball a mile. No more half attempts just to try to score some points. Instead, make ODF compliance a key feature and watch Office 2010 head out of the sales park. Besides, imagine the goodwill generated by such a statement of cooperation. Just do it."

Rob Weir - From ODF pre-1.2 to ODF 1.2

"I would have expected Microsoft to deal with confusing bits of the ODF specification by referring to existing implementations. How did OpenOffice.org deal with formulas in ODF 1.1? If nothing else, I would have liked to see the Excel team provide users with a pop-up dialog advising that their ODF spreadsheet formulas had been stripped out."

"Orvieto last week hosted the second ODF Interoperability Workshop, an international event bringing together ODF implementers from all over the world. My talk "open standards and interoperability" opened the first session on day 1, just after Fabio Pistella - President of the Italian National Center for ICT in Public Administrations (CNIPA) - welcomed the international audience."

"While you can create and save documents in the OpenDocument format using OpenOffice.org, KWord, or AbiWord, there are other ways to generate ODF files. odtwriter, for example, can help you to quickly convert plain text files formatted using reStructured Text markup into odt (OpenOffice.org Writer-compatible ODF) documents."

"Your life would be easier if there were a document format that all word processors could use freely, that was created in open debate, publicly documented, and widely accepted as a standard. That's what a group called OASIS set out to create, and in 2006 their "Open Document Format" (ODF) was adopted as an international standard. Lots of word processors, free and commercial, adopted ODF and pledged to support it"

"This morning, i had some opportunity to discuss this issue with Betti Alisjahbana, ex president director of IBM Indonesia, which is now head of AOSI (Indonesian Open Source Association). Her team has been aware of this issue and they have started to move on to make ODF as the standard for office document format. The process might take some time, but at least, there is a significant progress since AOSI was born last year."

"Oracle is a key supporter of open standards such as ODF and we believe this only strengthens that stance. This acquisition could prove fruitful for Open Office and ODF support in the enterprise. Both Oracle and Sun's commitments to open standards based products and services that enable customer choice and effective integration amongst the variety of technology it takes to run a business is a win for technology consumers."

"The ODFDOM Toolkit API is a framework written in Java and designed to provide an easy common way to create, access and manipulate OpenDocument format (ODF) files, without requiring detailed knowledge of the ODF specification. The purpose of these tutorials is to get you started with the toolkit as quickly and easily as possible."