+1 for Apache OpenOffice 3.4Read more in the official announcement. You can download Apache OpenOffice 3.4 now, from http://download.openoffice.org/ Tell your friends. And welcome home. Related posts: An Invitation to Apache OpenOffice Apache OpenOffice: How to Get Involved First release of the Apache ODF Toolkit Related posts:
08/05/2012, source: Rob Weir: An Antic Disposition Celebrate Document Freedom Day
26/03/2012, source: Open Document - Online Community for the OpenDocument OASIS Standard Ending the Symphony ForkWhat is a fork? A fork is a form of software reuse. I like your software module. It meets some or many of my needs, but I need some additional features. When I want to reuse existing functionality from another software product, I generally have four choices: If your module is nicely designed and extensible, [...] Related posts:
02/02/2012, source: Rob Weir: An Antic Disposition First release of the Apache ODF ToolkitThe Apache ODF Toolkit 0.5 (incubating) release is now available for download. Detailed change notes are also posted. The ODF Toolkit is a Java library for reading, writing and creating ODF documents. It is entirely in Java and does not require that you install a desktop editor like OpenOffice. It operates directly on the file [...] Related posts: 26/01/2012, source: Rob Weir: An Antic Disposition Shakespeare to Tim Tebow: Top Hourly Wikipedia Pages for 2011I had grand plans. This was supposed to be a cool looking visualization. Over 2011 I downloaded nearly a terabyte of raw Wikipedia page access stats. And recently I had a python script running for 3 weeks around the clock crunching the data. This was going to be cool. But I ran out of time [...] Related posts: 19/12/2011, source: Rob Weir: An Antic Disposition ODF 1.2: Approved as an OASIS StandardTo quote the immortal words of Otis B. Driftwood, Let joy be unconfined. Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlor. The day has finally arrived. Open Document Format (ODF) 1.2 has been approved. It is now an OASIS Standard. If you are regular reader of this [...] Related posts:
01/10/2011, source: Rob Weir: An Antic Disposition An Invitation to the Apache ODF ToolkitPerhaps overlooked in all the excitement generated by the move of OpenOffice.org to Apache was the fact that a parallel move is occurring with the ODF Toolkit. A few weeks ago we submitted a proposal to Apache to start a new project based on the Java components that were until then hosted by the ODF [...] Related posts:
15/08/2011, source: Rob Weir: An Antic Disposition ODF Plugfest, BerlinI attended the 6th ODF Plugfest took place in Berlin a few weeks ago, hosted by the German Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI) and the Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi). It followed the pattern of previous events, a two-day event, with the first day dedicated to technical interop activities among implementors, followed [...] Related posts: 10/08/2011, source: Rob Weir: An Antic Disposition LibreOffice conference
19/07/2011, source: Open Document - Online Community for the OpenDocument OASIS Standard 6th ODF Plugfest
13/07/2011, source: Open Document - Online Community for the OpenDocument OASIS Standard ODF Symposium
24/06/2011, source: Open Document - Online Community for the OpenDocument OASIS Standard An Invitation to Apache OpenOfficeAs you have probably heard, Oracle has followed through with their earlier promise to move OpenOffice.org to a purely community-based open source project. OpenOffice is moving to Apache. Id like to offer you my own thoughts on this new opportunity and what it means. I recommend also the insights of my colleagues Ed Brill and [...] Related posts:
01/06/2011, source: Rob Weir: An Antic Disposition Gwenell Doc: A Small and Fast ODF Text EditorToday I look at Gwennel Doc, an ODF-based text editor for Microsoft Windows. In interesting attribute of Gwennel is its small size and fast speed. It can load and display the 792 page ODF 1.2, Part 1 specification in around 2 seconds, using an executable that is around 1/4 the size of that document. [...] Related posts: 26/05/2011, source: Rob Weir: An Antic Disposition PJ, Goodbye and Good LuckThere was a time when daggers were drawn on Linux and its demise was plotted in dark detail. At that hour stepped out a shieldmaiden with a blog, and that blog was Groklaw. Eight years later, we hear the news that Groklaw will cease new postings after May 16th. My sadness in hearing this news [...] Related posts: 10/05/2011, source: Rob Weir: An Antic Disposition The ODF Podcast 004: David A. Wheeler on OpenFormula
06/05/2011, source: Open Document - Online Community for the OpenDocument OASIS Standard Ten Things You Didn’t Know About ODF 1.2Some little known facts, all of them true, but only some of them amusing, and even then only just so, about ODF 1.2, recently approved as a Committee Specification by the OASIS ODF TC: In producing OASIS ODF 1.2, we had 184 Technical Committee meetings, not including the numerous subcommittee meetings. During the development of [...] No related posts. 06/05/2011, source: Rob Weir: An Antic Disposition OASIS ODF 1.2 Committee Specification ApprovedA few quick ODF updates. We have a number of projects moving forward at multiple levels. First, just last week the OASIS ODF TC approved the ODF 1.2 Committee Specification. This is the highest level of approval we can give to the specification in the technical committee. As some of you probably know, most standards [...] Related posts:
25/03/2011, source: Rob Weir: An Antic Disposition The ODF Podcast 003: The Co-Chairs of the ODF TC
21/03/2011, source: Open Document - Online Community for the OpenDocument OASIS Standard Best Practices for Authoring Interoperable ODF DocumentsIn the OASIS ODF Interoperability and Conformance TC we have recently started work on a new document, a Committee Note which will be called, Best Practices for Authoring Interoperable ODF Documents. I will be the editor for this document. If you are not yet familiar with a Committee Note, it is a new category of [...] Related posts: 10/03/2011, source: Rob Weir: An Antic Disposition The BSA’s New CandlemakersThe Business Software Alliance (BSA) is at it again. They are claiming that new UK Cabinet Office policy in favor of open standards the kind of standards that the web is built on and which has created billions in new economy jobs is actually a bad thing, since it would (according to the [...] No related posts. 03/03/2011, source: Rob Weir: An Antic Disposition 5th ODF Plugfest
26/12/2010, source: Open Document - Online Community for the OpenDocument OASIS Standard ODF usergroup started
22/11/2010, source: Open Document - Online Community for the OpenDocument OASIS Standard Simple Java API for ODF Announced
01/11/2010, source: Open Document - Online Community for the OpenDocument OASIS Standard ODF Plugfest presentations published
22/10/2010, source: Open Document - Online Community for the OpenDocument OASIS Standard ODFDOM - the new opensourced multi-tiered API for the ISO OpenDocument FormatODFDOM is the name of the upcoming free OpenDocument framework sponsored by Sun Microsystems Inc. It will be the next evolutionary step after AODL and Odf4j. Designed together with their architects with the intent to provide an easy lightwork programming API for the ODF developer community. ODFDOM is meant to be portable to any object-oriented language. The first pre-version of the Java 5 reference implementation of ODFDOM is planned to become available under LGPL3 in May 2008. 25/04/2008, source: Svante Schubert's blog |
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