The thirteenth ODF plugfest will take place in Rome (Italy) on October 10 + 11th 2017, hosted by city of Rome and with support from Forum Standaardisatie (an independent governmental organisation in The Netherlands supported by the ministries of Economic Affairs and of the Interior and Kingdom Relations)) and organised by OpenDoc Society.
OpenDocument Format is the world's leading document standard for exchanging content across office applications. The ODF plugfests are an ongoing series of vendor-neutral events, bringing together implementers and stakeholders of the standard. The goal is to achieve maximum interoperability by running scenario-based tests in a hands-on manner and discuss new and proposed features of the ODF specification.
The thirteenth ODF plugfest will take place in Rome (Italy) on October 10th/11th 2017, hosted by the city of Rome and organised by OpenDoc Society. Representatives from commercial and open source products, members of the OASIS ODF TC's and technical experts from national and regional governments will be present. Previous plugfests were held around Europe since 2009.
You can read more about the 2017 Rome ODF plugfest or about previous plugfests.
12th ODF plugfest in Paris
11th ODF plugfest in The Hague
10th ODF plugfest in London
9th ODF plugfest in Berlin
The eighth ODF plugfest took place in Brussels (Belgium) on April 19th/20th 2012, the venue was kindly provided by Microsoft Corporation, vendors of the best-selling Office product line and the Windows operating system.
The 7th ODF plugfest took place in The Netherlands on November 17/18th 2011, hosted by the Netherlands in Open Connection government programme, OpenDoc Society and the Dutch ODF government usergroup.
You can read more about the Gouda plugfest or check out the presentations from speakers such as Joris Gresnigt (Forum Standaardisatie), Fridrich Strba (Libvisio project), Thorsten Zachman (Nokia), Jos van den Oever (KO Gmbh), Cor Nouws (The Document Foundation), Oliver-Rainer Wittmann (IBM), Bart Wessels (Microsoft) and more.
About the plugfests
The first ODF plugfest was held in the Hague in 2009, and was launched by the Netherlands minister of Foreign Trade Frank Heemskerk. Previous plugfests were held at The Hague (Netherlands), Orvieto (Italy), Granada (Spain), Brussels (Belgium), Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead (UK) and Berlin (Germany).
About ODF
Open Document Format (ODF) is an international family of standards that is helping to store and process information more efficiently. ODF transcends specific applications and providers, and replaces legacy formats such as .doc, .wpd, .xls and .rtf. ODF is not only more flexible and efficient, but also future proof. ODF can help you regain control over your documents (read more...)
OpenDoc Society
OpenDoc Society brings together individuals and organisations with a stake or interest in the openness and future of documents to learn from each other and share knowledge - about core technologies, available tools, policy issues, transition strategies, legal aspects and of course the latest innovations. Whether you are a developer, publisher, decision maker, educator, vendor, IT manager, academic, writer, archivist or just an involved citizen - OpenDocSociety.org brings you together with interesting like-minded people to learn from and cooperate with. OpenDoc Society is supported by a significant number of organisations (continue reading...)
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