OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC

I'm not sure how much you've been tracking this, but this is the culmination of length public consultation and review process, leading to the selection of OASIS ODF 1.2 as the standard for office documents. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/open-document-formats-selected-to-meet-user-needs Details:   https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-standards-for-government/sharing-or-collaborating-with-government-documents Regards, -Rob

Congratulations to all of you. That is quite a feather in your cap.  /chet On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 1:07 PM, < robert_weir@us.ibm.com > wrote: I'm not sure how much you've been tracking this, but this is the culmination of length public consultation and review process, leading to the selection of OASIS ODF 1.2 as the standard for office documents. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/open-document-formats-selected-to-meet-user-needs Details:   https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-standards-for-government/sharing-or-collaborating-with-government-documents Regards, -Rob -- /chet  ---------------- Chet Ensign Director of Standards Development and TC Administration  OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society http://www.oasis-open.org Primary: +1 973-996-2298 Mobile: +1 201-341-1393  Check your work using the Support Request Submission Checklist at  http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/47248/tc-admin-submission-checklist.html   TC Administration information and support is available at http://www.oasis-open.org/resources/tcadmin Follow OASIS on: LinkedIn:     http://linkd.in/OASISopen Twitter:         http://twitter.com/OASISopen Facebook:   http://facebook.com/oasis.open

What exciting news! I'm crowing about it on the OASIS Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ pages and OpenDocument XML.org. Congratulations! On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Chet Ensign < chet.ensign@oasis-open.org > wrote: Congratulations to all of you. That is quite a feather in your cap.  /chet On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 1:07 PM, < robert_weir@us.ibm.com > wrote: I'm not sure how much you've been tracking this, but this is the culmination of length public consultation and review process, leading to the selection of OASIS ODF 1.2 as the standard for office documents. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/open-document-formats-selected-to-meet-user-needs Details:   https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-standards-for-government/sharing-or-collaborating-with-government-documents Regards, -Rob -- /chet  ---------------- Chet Ensign Director of Standards Development and TC Administration  OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society http://www.oasis-open.org Primary: +1 973-996-2298 Mobile: +1 201-341-1393   Check your work using the Support Request Submission Checklist at  http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/47248/tc-admin-submission-checklist.html   TC Administration information and support is available at http://www.oasis-open.org/resources/tcadmin Follow OASIS on: LinkedIn:     http://linkd.in/OASISopen Twitter:         http://twitter.com/OASISopen Facebook:   http://facebook.com/oasis.open -- Carol Geyer Senior Director, OASIS +1.781.425.5073 x209 (Office) +1.941.284.0403 (Cell) Subscribe to OASIS News and interoperate IoT newsletter Follow OASIS on: LinkedIn:     http://linkd.in/OASISopen Twitter:         http://twitter.com/OASISopen Facebook:   http://facebook.com/oasis.open YouTube:     http://www.youtube.com/oasisopen

On Tuesday 22 July 2014 13:07:45 robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote: > I'm not sure how much you've been tracking this, but this is the > culmination of length public consultation and review process, leading to > the selection of OASIS ODF 1.2 as the standard for office documents. > > https://www.gov.uk/government/news/open-document-formats-selected-to-meet-us > er-needs I am over the moon! Now the UK is compatible with the Netherlands (and vice versa)! Let's hope more nations will follow. Cheers, Jos

Hi, these are great news for the ODF ecosystem and the ODF adoption. It is motivating to continue our great work. Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards Oliver-Rainer Wittmann -- Advisory Software Engineer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IBM Deutschland Beim Strohhause 17 20097 Hamburg Phone: +49-40-6389-1415 E-Mail: orwitt@de.ibm.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH / Vorsitzende des Aufsichtsrats: Martina Koederitz Geschäftsführung: Dirk Wittkopp Sitz der Gesellschaft: Böblingen / Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294 From:         robert_weir@us.ibm.com To:         "OASIS OpenDocument TC List" <office@lists.oasis-open.org> Cc:         "Carol Geyer" <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org>, "Laurent M Liscia" <laurent.liscia@oasis-open.org> Date:         22.07.2014 19:13 Subject:         [office] UK Cabinet Office announced their standard:  OASIS Open Document Format 1.2 Sent by:         <office@lists.oasis-open.org> I'm not sure how much you've been tracking this, but this is the culmination of length public consultation and review process, leading to the selection of OASIS ODF 1.2 as the standard for office documents. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/open-document-formats-selected-to-meet-user-needs Details:   https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-standards-for-government/sharing-or-collaborating-with-government-documents Regards, -Rob