May 2008
4 posts
ODF / XML experts confirmed
The xml workshop to be held at TUT is starting to take shape with both Patrick Durusau thanks to Sun Microsystems and Steve Pepper thanks to the Meraka Institute confirmed as speakers. With more experts promised from IBM and Microsoft this should be an event not to be missed.
round up
We are hoping to host an xml workshop from the 17th to the 20th of June at the Tshwane University of Technology, i have attended a few meetings in this regard. There will no charge for attending and we are hoping to get heavyweights like Steve Pepper, Patrick Durusau and Bob Jolliffe. So far we are on track and it looks like we will have an interesting workshop. Microsoft announced that they will...
SA appeals ISO decision
Our National Standards body has appealed against the OOXML DIS 29500 ballot vote in ISO / IEC, the story is covered by tectonic , Andy Updegrove, and Steve Pepper. It will be interesting to see how the ISO technical management board deals with this well constructed argument against the decision. If there are any other national bodies or SC’s that have appealed as well, I would like to hear...
round up for last week
I’m in Namibia this week attending the IST Africa conference and have had some connectivity issues so I have not been able to update this blog until now. On Wednesday I met with members from Sun, and we discussed sun’s support for our ODF implementation and the offer that Sun has made to government. The offer to the whole of government of Staroffice is covered in this article . I...