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Democracy and XML

Nov

2007

I’m in the US (Washington, Boston, Washington) from 26 Nov to 7 Dec. I have been invited to come over to Washington, DC, to attend a researchers and practioners meeting in the Deliberative Democracy Consortium, which will be held Thu-Sat this coming week. After that, I go to Boston for the XML 2007 conference. Pop quiz: At which of these events will there be discussions about erosion of trust? (hint)

Something IS Rotten in the State of Denmark

May

2007

Leif Lohdal is blogging much more continuously about the Danish open standards situation than I am. Time for me to catch up. On 24 April, the Danish Open Source Business Association and the Danish IT Industry Association arranged a conference in Parliament, from which I reported (in Danish, like most of the following links) over at Version2. Peter Strickx made a good presentation (soundtrack) about the situation in Belgium. On the same day, Prosa and Version2 arranged a debate meeting about document standards. They had ...

Get the ODF Monograph

Mar

2007

UPGRADE, the European Journal for the Informatics Professional, has just published an Open Document Format Monograph. The monograph is published on behalf of CEPIS by NovÃ¡tica (ATI, Spain), in English and in Spanish. The English version is available online: download as PDF, see content and summaries. The Spanish version is out in print and soon online. I warmly recommend the monograph’s articles. I’m of course pleased about my contribution (announced earlier), but recommend reading several of the others first. These are the articles: OpenDocument Standard ...

ISO confirms

Mar

2007

In a statement to me (on behalf of Danish Version2), ISO’s Manager of Communication Services, Roger Frost, has cordially confirmed Computerworld’s story. Not that I doubted Computerworld’s Eric Lai, but I just wanted to make sure. Frost writes: ISO and IEC are to issue ISO/IEC DIS 29500 (ECMA-376) “Office Open XML File Formats” in the near future for a five-month fast-track ballot by the participating members of the ISO/IEC joint technology committee ISO/IEC JTC 1, Information technology, and by all member bodies of ISO and ...