Developers Gather for ODF Day at the KDE Community aKademy 2006 Conference
The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) Desktop Linux (DTL) group, NLnet, and the KDE open source development community recently hosted an ODF Day at aKademy 2006. This year the leading open source developers from the KDE community were joined by senior technical staff member representatives from Intel and IBM for a day of seminars and technical talks on the many facets of software development opportunities enabled by the new ISO/IEC 263000 (OpenDocument Format) international standard.
Dr. Barbara Held, presently serving as Enterprise and Industry Directorate-General of the European Commission Program for Interchange of Data between Administrations (IDA), stated in her keynote address, "In the view of the European administrations and Member States, the ODF standard is at the very top of the pile by far from all other proposed open standards."
The Interoperable Delivery of pan-European eGovernment Services to Public Administrations, Businesses and Citizens (IDABC) promotes open document formats for European eGovernment services. The European administrations require accessibility, sustainability, independence, and scalability of document solutions.
Open Document Format (ODF) is not just a file format for personal productivity application suites such as OpenOffice, Koffice, or IBM Workplace. for personal productivity application suites such as OpenOffice, Koffice, or IBM Workplace. The power of ODF is that any open source and/or commercial software application can generate ODF document data and when combined with other applications that implement ODF support, deliver new business value in highly collaborative and interoperable solutions.
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