Activities
ODF Preferences
The ODF Alliance has also been very active in lobbying U.S. State and International governments on ODF issues to promote legislative mandates for the use of the ODF document format. The ODF Alliance has provided public testimony in the following fora:
- 2008 April 9: Testimony before the Government Reform Committee, State of Texas;
- 2007 February 7: Newsletter to ODF Alliance Members;
- 2007 April 17: AB 1668 California Assembly Bill: Bill Analysis.
Anti-OOXML
During late 2007 though 2008, the ODF Alliance was focused on lobbying ISO members in order to prevent OOXML from being accepted by ISO.
- Ongoing: OOXML Updates and Analysis;
- 2007 June 7: "ODF Alliance posts documents about OOXML/OpenXML/whatever";
- 2008 February 25: Open Forum Europe Geneva Conference.
Read more about this topic: Open Document Format Alliance
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