OpenOffice [1] 1.1 beta now supports DocBook [2] Import/Export as indicated by the feature list [3].
[1] http://www.openoffice.org
[2] http://www.docbook.org/
[3] http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/1.1beta/features.html
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ZZ/OSS at LinuxTag 2003, July 10-13
ZZ/OSS will be present at LinuxTag 2003 [1], Europe’s largest Open Source traid fare. Sandro will introduce CONESYS [2] at a Session [3] within the LinuxTag free congress[4] at July 11.
[1] http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html
[2] http://www.conesys.net
[3] http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/de/conferences/talk.xsp?id=44
[4] http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/de/conferences/free.html
OSAF receives $98,000 grant
Some good news form the OSAF Website: “We are pleased to announce that the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has agreed to provide a $98,000 grant to fund a planning project to extend OSAF’s Chandler software application to meet the information technology needs of higher education. The Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF) originally planned for its new Personal Information Manager application to target individual and small-to-medium business users that need a better tool to manage and share their email, contacts, calendars and notes. Based on expressions of significant interest from the higher education community, OSAF, with support of the Mellon Foundation, is undertaking a study of how to address administration, scalability, and security issues of that segment.” [1]
[1] http://www.osafoundation.org/MellonAnnouncement_Mar-31-2003.htm
Peter F. Drucker: Knowledge Work and Knowledge Society
A brief introduction to the Knowledge Society[1] by Peter F. Drucker[2] from a speech at Harvard where he discusses the chances and drawbacks of a Knowledge Society.
[1] http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/ifactory/ksgpress/www/ksg_news/transcripts/drucklec.htm
[2] http://www.innovation-award.ca/about_peter.html
Website of German Green Party Foundation on WSIS
The Heinrich Böll Foundation (foundation of the German Green Party) has put up a Web site[1] on the World Summit on the Information Society.
WSIS – The World Summit on the Information Society
The World Summit on the Information Society[1] will be held in two phases. The first phase of WSIS will take place in Geneva hosted by the Government of Switzerland from 10 to 12 December 2003. The second phase will take place in Tunis hosted by the Government of Tunisia, from 16 to 18 November 2005.
Communications Rights in the Information Society (CRIS)
Communications Rights in the Information Society (CRIS)[1] is a campaign to ensure that communication rights are central to the information society and to the upcoming World Summit to the Information Society (WSIS). The campaign is sponsored and supported by the Platform for Communication Rights, a group of NGOs involved in media and communication projects around the word.
1dok – Open Document Format
1dok.org[1] works on an open standard for free and unimpeded exchange of electronic documents via internet.
OASIS Open Office XML Format
In case you haven’t already heard: The OASIS standardization organization founded a TC to create an open, XML-based file format specification for office applications.[1]
[1] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office
Weblog Collaboration
Sam Ruby describes some of the currently popular techniques used to promote collaboration and group forming via weblogs.[1]
Ben Hammersley put together some information on TrackBack and its variants.[2]
Urs Gehrig has many more blogs on Weblogs.[3]
[1] http://www.intertwingly.net/stories/2003/01/17/cohesion.html
[2] http://www.benhammersley.com/archives/003862.html
[3] http://www.circle.ch/blog/c12.html
