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SOUTH AFRICA, BRAZIL, INDIA, VENEZUELA APPEAL OOXML VOTE; DENMARK
PROTESTS; LEGAL CHALLENGE IN UK

South Africa, Brazil, India and Venezuela have officially appealed
ISO's vote on Microsoft's OOXML (DIS 29500), leaving OOXML in limbo
until officials in the ISO/IEC hierarchy determine how to resolve the
complaints. South Africa's appeal cites instances both before and
during the Ballot Resolution Meeting held on Feb 25-29 2008 in which
the ISO/IEC JTC1 directives were not followed, voices concern over the
circumvention of the consensus-building process by large
organizations, and challenges the validity of the final
vote...Brazil's appeal raises additional objections to those cited by
South Africa, including the failure to allow the Brazilian delegation
to present its proposal regarding "legacy" formats and the failure to
deliver the final text of DIS 29500 as required under the
directives...IEC spokespersons confirmed the receipt of formal appeals
from India and Venezuela, though the exact nature of the complaints
was not known...Denmark's Open Source Leverandørforeningen (OSL)
lodged an official complaint to the ISO vice president and Danish
Standard managing director Jacob Holmblad urging ISO to reconsider
OOXML in light of the violation of the directives... The UK's Unix and
Open Systems User Group (UKUUG) mounted a legal challenge to a British
Standards Institute decision to approve the fast-tracking of OOXML.
South Africa --
http://www.tectonic.co.za/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/dis-29500-appeal-letter-iso-2008-0-22.pdf
Brazil --
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20080529150227123
India --
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/146468/india_and_brazil_file_appeals_against_ooxml_standardization.html
Venezuela --
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39427754,00.htm
Denmark --
http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/ISO_complaint_May08.pdf
United Kingdom --
http://www.ukuug.org/ooxml/

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ODF ALLIANCE CALLS ON MICROSOFT TO ACT ON ITS COMMITMENT TO IMPLEMENT
SUPPORT FOR ODF

In a statement, the ODF Alliance greeted with skepticism Microsoft's
announcement of its intention to include support for ODF in the first
half of 2009, noting that "the proof will be whether and when
Microsoft's promised support for ODF is on par with its support for
its own format," while citing the announcement as a reflection of "the
strong demand from customers worldwide, especially governments, for
access to ODF...".

ODF Alliance Statement --
http://www.odfalliance.org/press/Release20080521-microsoft-odf.pdf
ConsortiumInfo.org Analysis --
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20080521092930864

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NEW YORK REPORT RECOMMENDS STATE BEGIN ACCEPTING DOCUMENTS IN OPEN
FORMATS, INTEGRATE OPENNESS IN PROCUREMENT POLICIES
A report published by the New York State's Office of the CIO and the
Office for Technology -- "A Strategy for Openness: Enhancing E-Records
Access in New York State" -- concerns issues that feature prominently
in the growing public debate over document formats, including choice,
cost and mandating in procurement. By far the most thorough review and
analysis of the issue to date, the report found that increased numbers
of formats for doing the same office tasks increase complexity, add to
costs, and do not increase choice. Calling for harmonization between
ODF and OOXML, the report concludes that "the use of single,
standardized formats increases efficiencies and furthers compatibility
and interoperability," and requests that New York State "be added to
the list of those who are asking proprietary vendors to directly
support document formats such as ODF or other formats that maintain
the same level of ODF's openness." The report notes that "despite
expressly being asked, not one of the 114 commentators cited a single
study finding higher costs after migration to open format solutions."
The report recommends a process culminating in April 2009 that will
determine specific changes to procurement policies to "integrate
openness... as one of the most desired features" and other
requirements to allow state agencies to begin accepting office suite
documents in open formats.
New York State Report --
http://www.oft.state.ny.us/policy/esra/erecords-study.htm
ODF Alliance Statement --
http://www.odfalliance.org/press/Release20080522-ny-records-report.pdf

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APPEAL LAUNCHED FOR HAGUE DECLARATION ON DIGITAL RIGHTS
A new international group, the Digital Standards Organization
("Digistan"), has launched an appeal for signatories to a declaration
calling on governments to: procure only information technology that
implements free and open standards; deliver e-government services
based exclusively on free and open standards; and use only free and
open digital standards in their own activities. The Hague Declaration
is premised on the idea that more and more of our basic freedoms
(speech, association, assembly, etc..) are exercised on the Internet.
Full and effective participation in government and society, and indeed
access to public services, education and opportunity, is therefore
increasingly dependent upon access to electronic communications. As
such, the declaration calls on governments to ensure affordable, equal
access to the Internet, recognizing the unique role that free and open
digital standards can play in ensuring this result.

http://www.digistan.org/hague-declaration:en

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JOIN THE PUBLIC DISCUSSION ON ODF IMPLEMENTATION, INTEROPERABILITY,
AND CONFORMANCE
Conformance to the ODF specification and interoperability among
ODF-supporting applications is essential. You can help. Join the
discussion list regarding the creation of a new OASIS ODF
Implementation, Interoperability and Conformance (IIC) Technical
Committee. Anyone, including OASIS members and non-members, may
subscribe to the list by sending a message to:
oiic-formation-discuss-subscribe en lists.oasis-open.org. The preliminary
statement of scope for the TC includes providing a means for
implementers to create applications which adhere to the ODF
specification and are able to interoperate. As such, the TC may
publish conformance test suites to confirm the interoperability of
ODF-supporting applications and produce a set of implementation
guidelines, among other deliverables. Discussion on the e-mail list
will be open for 90 days.
OASIS OIIC Discussion List --
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/oiic-formation-discuss/200806/msg00001.html

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NEW OR IMPROVED ODF APPLICATIONS SUPPORT

Document to DAISY DTBook Translator v0.0.4 is an OpenOffice.org
plug-in for the creation of "talking" DAISY books for people with
print impairments --
http://blogs.sun.com/korn/entry/openoffice_org_plug_in_for
IBM's Lotus Symphony 1.0, a suite of free, ODF-supporting software
tools for creating and sharing documents, spreadsheets and
presentations, now includes an optional, fee-based service to support
the needs of organizations --
http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.jspa
IBM's Lotus Foundations Start is a complete, ODF supporting software
appliance that provides the essential software a business needs to
focus on running the business --
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/foundations/start/
IBM, Novell and Avnet have teamed up to develop IBM Open Collaboration
Solution, which uses ODF-supporting software running on Novell's Suse
Linux --
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200806030016DOWJONESDJONLINE000003_FORTUNE5.htm
Microsoft announced its intention to provide support for ODF in MS
Office 2007 by the middle of 2009 --
http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2008/may08/05-21ExpandedFormatsPR.mspx
ODFXSLTRunner is a new tool in the ODF Toolkit project that allows you
to apply an XSLT stylesheet to an ODF document without extracting
streams from the ODF package, and without having to update the ODF
package files with the result of the transformation --
http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/odfxsltrunner_a_new_tool_in

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NEW ALLIANCE MEMBERS
Please welcome the following new member: Network Design & Integration (USA).

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EVENTS CALENDAR

XML Standards in Government Workshop [17-20 June 2008, Tshwane Univ.
of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa]
http://www.dst.gov.za/invite/
Red Hat Summit [18-20 June 2008 - Boston, MA]
http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/2008/
OpenOffice.org Conference (OOoCon 2008)[5-7 Nov 2008 - Beijing, China]
http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2008/

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ODF IN THE NEWS

N.Y.'s CIO Urges Interoperable, Vendor-Neutral Document Format [K.C.
Jones, InformationWeek]
http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/enterpriseapps/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208200342
Alliance Weighs In on Microsoft Interoperability in Education [Dave
Nagel, The Journal]
http://www.thejournal.com/articles/22639
NY commits to open formats as MSFT supports ODF [Richard Koman, ZDnet]
http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3836
Microsoft's ODF support points to OOXML challenges [Elizabeth
Montalbano, IDG News]
http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=17511773-17A4-0F78-31DD0C9EFEAAB15D
Brazil protests ratification of OOXML [Tom Espiner, CNET News.com]
http://news.cnet.com/Brazil-protests-ratification-of-OOXML/2100-1013_3-6240580.html?tag=news.1
EU will probe Microsoft's ODF move [Gregg Keizer, ComputerWorld]
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=desktop_applications&articleId=9088220&taxonomyId=86&intsrc=kc_top
Forget file formats. The battle is Sharepoint [Matt Asay]
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9949736-16.html
Louis Suarez-Potts: OOXML Has Zero Effect On ODF [Swapnil Bhartiya,
EFY News Network]
http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/26489/news.htm
OpenOffice 3.0 beta : Can it finally replace Microsoft Office?
[Preston Gralla, ComputerWorld]
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9085920&pageNumber=2
UK agency says Microsoft hurts student interests [David Lawsky, Reuters]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/7514478
Eliminating the 'Software Tax' by Using ODF [Erwin Tenhumberg, itv.sys-con.com]
http://internetvideo.sys-con.com/read/498422.htm
Microsoft OOXML: Dead Format Walking [Jason Brooks, eWeek]
http://blogs.eweek.com/brooks/content/office/microsoft_ooxml_dead_format_walking.html
Dutch Gov releases Open Source tool: Converts Microsoft docs to ODF
[Stewart Meagher, The Inquirer]
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/05/27/dutch-gov-releases-open-source
IIT Bombay, Microsoft at loggerheads over standards [Leslie D`Monte,
Business Standard]
http://www.business-standard.com/common/news_article.php?autono=324294&leftnm=8&subLeft=0&chkFlg=
The Embrace, Extend, Extinguish of ODF Begins? - Updated [Groklaw]
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080524063506630
The Fall of Microsoft Office [Anders Bylund, The Motley Fool]
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2008/05/27/the-fall-of-microsoft-office.aspx
IBM to Sell Support for Rival to Microsoft Office [Reuters]
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Enterprise-Apps/IBM-to-Sell-Support-for-Rival-to-Microsoft-Office/
Your Second Economic Stimulus Check Is On Its Way [Phil Shapiro]
http://blogs.pcworld.com/communityvoices/archives/2008/06/your_second_eco.html

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