Author Archive

Advent Resource #13: Oasis Open Document Essentials

odf-essentialsOASIS OpenDocument Essentials is a comprehensive book about the Open Document Format (ODF), published by O’Reilly under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.

The book covers the following topics: the Open Document

Advent Resource #12: Rob Weir on ODF

ieee-weirOpen Document Format (ODF) is the native file format of LibreOffice, and of many other enterprise and personal productivity applications. ODF is an XML-based open standard file format for office documents, such as

Advent Resource #11: ODF vs OOXML

odf_220-03aAndy Updegrove is a standards advocate, and has supported ODF since its inception. He is the author of Consortium Info, and of the related blog about standards.

Between November 2007 and January 2008 he has summarized in a series of five blog

Advent Resource #10: ODF Guide for Migrations to LibreOffice

rio-grande-os-implementation-guideODF Guide, a reference document for open standards implementation” (PDF) has been published in July 2015 by Governo do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, General Department, Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications.

The 70

Advent Resource #9: TDF Blog Planet

TDF Blog Planet is one of the best resources to stay updated with the project, and get to know some of the most active contributors through their writings.

Contributors to the planet are: Akshay Deep, Andras Timar, Andreas Mantke, Andrzej Hunt, Björn Michaelsen, Caolán McNamara, Cedric Bosdonnat, Charles Schulz, Chris Sherlock, Christoph Noack, Collabora Community, Cor Nouws, Daniel Bankston, David Ostrovsky, David Tardon, Dennis Roczek, Efe Gürkan Yalaman, Eike Rathke, Eilidh McAdam, Florian Effenberger, Florian Reisinger, Fridrich Strba, Goran

Advent Resource #8: Ask LibreOffice

askAsk LibreOffice serves as a collaborative platform on which LibreOffice users, volunteers, developers, and other community members can come together to ask and answer questions about LibreOffice, TDF, and related matters.

The easiest way to contribute