Berlin, December 14, 2016 – The Document Foundation announces the new Extensions & Templates website, which offers an improved user experience to both developers and end users: https://extensions.libreoffice.org. The resource is now based on the latest version of the Plone open source Content Management System, and has been both coordinated and developed by Andreas Mantke, deputy member of the board at The Document Foundation.…
13 Dec 2016
Advent Resource #13: Oasis Open Document Essentials
OASIS 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 Format; the meta.xml, styles.xml, settings.xml, and content.xml Files; Text Document Basics; Text Documents, Advanced; Spreadsheets; Drawings; Presentations; and Charts.
The book helps to understand how to extract data from Open Document files or how to convert data to Open Document Format, or simply find out how the format works.…
13 Dec 2016
Mike’s marketing activities, July – December 2016
Donations to The Document Foundation help us to maintain a small team, working on various areas of the project including documentation, user interface design, quality assurance, release engineering and marketing. I help out with the latter, and as we come towards the end of 2016, I want to talk about some of the things I’ve been working on in the last six months.…
12 Dec 2016
Advent Resource #12: Rob Weir on ODF
Open 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 spreadsheets, text documents, and presentations. ODF is application-, platform-, and vendor-neutral, and thereby facilitates broad interoperability of office documents.
ODF is the only true standard file format for office documents, but is still lesser known than proprietary file formats, although countries such as UK, France, the Netherlands and Sweden in Europe and Taiwan in Asia have recognized it as the preferred file format for government documents.…
12 Dec 2016
Advent Resource #11: ODF vs OOXML
Andy 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 posts what he has defined “a standards war of truly epic proportions: the ongoing (at the time), ever expanding, still escalating conflict between ODF and OOXML, a battle that is playing out across five continents and in both the halls of government and the marketplace alike”.…
10 Dec 2016
Advent Resource #10: ODF Guide for Migrations to LibreOffice
“ODF 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 page document has been edited by Gustavo Buzzati Pacheco, a long time member of the Brasilian community, and now a member of TDF Membership Committee.…