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Jul

2009

As indicated in a 140 char note on Twitter, I’m leaving Europe. For a month, that is. I am going on a flight/roadtrip, part work, part vacation. Locationwise roughly as follows: Toronto from July 17th to 25th. Washington, DC from July 26th to 31st. Ottawa from July 31st to August 6th. Boston from August 7th to 14th. oh, and then a stopover in Iceland: ReykjavÃk from August 14th to 18th. Along the way I will attend The Open Group’s 23rd Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference in ...

Good Enough Standards? No Way 4

Jan

2008

Two of my students (Michael and SÃ¸ren) did an interesting small project about the “document format war” in december, and we had a good discussion at the exam here this week. They’d interviewed three key actors in the Danish OpenXML/ODF-debate, and presented a very decent, if slightly biased, analysis. But bias seem to be the menu of the day everywhere in the document debates. Burton Group’s Whatâ€™s Up, .DOC? ODF, OOXML, and the Revolutionary Implications of XML in Productivity Applications was bashed for being biased. ...

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)

Netherlands Picks ODF 7

Sep

2007

(Updated 20 September)Â Just heard this news from the Netherlands: On behalf of the Dutch government, Frank Heemskerk, Minister State Secretary of Economic Affairs, announced today that ODF will be the standard for reading, publishing and the exchange of information for all governmental organisations. The deadline is January 2009. Heemskerk’s announcement is just one of several initiatives about the use of open standards and open source software in Dutch government. Dutch announcement: Ministerie van Economische Zaken – Verplicht gebruik open standaarden bij overheid More in ...