Today I’ve had very gratifying day, because it was my “first time” three times:
This morning, during the CONGED, I had the opportunity to participate for the first time on a debate about ODF and OpenXML with Microsoft (or almost). Microsoft could not send any employee to participate, but sent Leandro Jekimim, a researcher from UNESP-Bauru […]

I am very happy and excited about the marathon that I will face over the next 45 days.
The agenda of talks / discussions / panels will be as follows:
03/10 - VI CONGED (Southern Cone Congress of Data and Metadata Management Technologies) - Curitiba, Parana
09 and 10/10 - II ODF Workshop - Pretoria - South Africa
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I enjoy to read the announcement made by IBM, making public its new “IT Standards Policy”.
I think that it’s very important to publish such a policy, because from now on, the decisions made and actions taken by the company in the field of standardization may be more clearly understood and analyzed. Moreover, it is up […]

In 2006, my colleagues from ODF Alliance India very successfully organized a national ODF presentation contest, focused on teenage students.
This year, they are organizing the ODF Olympiad 2008, which will involve teenage students around the world.
The rules, orientations and more information about the Olympiad can be found here.
I also would like to ask to everyone […]

A few days ago, I wrote a blog entry stating that we need a new international standardization body. In this post, I would like to share some of my ideas regarding how to include more people, the general public, in international standardization efforts. I really hope to have  your contributions here (post a comment), because […]

I’ve written before telling what I think about the ISO’s attitude, rejecting the appeals to OpenXML approval (btw, until the present day we haven’t received ISO’s  “official response” in Brazil… just the press release).
As far as I know, the countries that sent the appeals do not intend to appeal again, despite this be possible under […]

It was published today on ISO’s website a press release announcing that “…The two ISO and IEC technical boards have given the go-ahead to publish ISO/IEC DIS 29500, Information technology – Office Open XML formats…”, stating that “…None of the appeals from Brazil, India, South Africa and Venezuela received the support for further processing of […]

In order to clarify to the general public the impacts of open standards for office documents on Communications Networks, Sergio Amadeu (Cásper Líbero College) recorded a chat with me (Jomar Silva) and Deivi Kuhn (SERPRO) to talk about the  currently existing office document standards and their importance.
On the video, that can also be accessed here, […]

I haven’t posted anything in recent days on my blog because I’m anxious and tense about the appeals that were sent to ISO regarding OpenXML (and when I am anxious and tense, usually I’m not very rational with the stuff I write).
Next Monday is the the deadline to members of ISO’s TMB and IEC’s SMB […]

A SAP application expand the list of ODF supporting applications.
I am very happy to recommend everyone to read this post, from Erwin Tenhumberg’s blog (former Sun Microsystems now Open Source Program Manager at SAP), where he shows step by step how to export data from SAP to a spreadsheet in ODF.
The list of applications that […]