Open Office
Open Government Comes to the Department of State: The Office of the ...
By Stephanie Williams, Mandy Chalou, Joseph Wicentowski
Embracing Government transparency, the Office of the Historian at the Department of State is publishing its entire archive of U.S. Government documents online. Adopting cutting edge open source technologies the Office has revamped its workflow and developed new digital publishing tools to enhance access to government documents.
[Publish Date: February 22, 2010]
Speaker: Jeff Nigbur: Open Government and Government 2.0 Online Conference ...
Sergeant Jeff Nigbur is the lead Public Information Officer for the Utah Department of Public Safety. He oversees public information activities for all divisions within the department, including the Utah Highway Patrol, Utah State Crime Lab, Driver License Division, Bureau of Criminal Identification, Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST), Utah Division of Homeland Security and the State Fire Marshal. Jeff has had the opportunity to deal with many high profile cases such as the Crandall Canyon Mine Disaster, Milford Flat Fire, the Jared Massey Tasing, the USU Van Roll-Over and many other media / awareness campaigns. Jeff received his Associates of Science degree in Criminal Justice in 2004 from the Salt Lake Community College. He also has a Bachelors degree in Criminal Justice Administration from the University of Phoenix. Jeff is currently a motor squad instructor, DPS dive team master diver, and member of S.E.R.T., the Utah Dept. of Public Safety’s SWAT team.
[Publish Date: December 10, 2009]
Speaker: Joseph Wicentowski: O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing ...
Joseph Wicentowski joined the Office of the Historian in 2007 as a historian in the Policy Studies Division, after receiving his Ph.D. in History from Harvard University, where he focused on the history of modern East Asia. He leads the technical development of the Office of the Historian’s new website (http://history.state.gov), as well as internal research tools and workflow management tools. He designed the new XML-based workflow for publishing the Foreign Relations of the United States series online (using the TEI schema) and created the office’s website using the eXist open source native XML database. He is actively engaged in the open government data, open source XML communities and continues to develop new content and new tools for historical research, teaching, and publishing.
[Publish Date: February 22, 2010]
Tracing through a page-break style-inheritance problem with Office 2007 SP2 ...
By Rick Jelliffe
In which I open the ODF 1.1 spec in Office 2007 SP2, immediately discover a bug with page breaks, trace it through the standards, find a workaround, then find the standard is not as clear as it should be.
[Publish Date: May 26, 2009]
Local forums to implement high-speed networks (broadband): proposal open ...
By Andy Oram
I've posted a proposal titled Local forums to implement high-speed networks (broadband) to a forum on open government put up by the White House. I ask this blog's readers to tell other people who might be interested, and vote up the proposal if you like it. The Open Government Dialog site where this proposal appears is part of the White House's implementation of the Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government that Obama signed on his first day in office. Hundreds of ideas have already been posted. Many are very specific and some look quite worthy, but I think mine stands out for the reasons listed in my justification.
[Publish Date: May 24, 2009]
An Open Letter to Microsoft, IBM/Lotus, Corel and others on Lodging Old ...
By Rick Jelliffe
This is an open letter to all companies who achieved market success in the 1980s and 1990s with PC-based applications. The recent controversy over ODF and Office Open XML at ISO shows both that there is substantial interest in document...
[Publish Date: March 17, 2008]
Adobe Opens-Up Acrobat.com Presentations - InsideRIA
By Andrew Trice
[Publish Date: May 27, 2009]
Why open source developers can be more productive, and other tales from a ...
By Andy Oram
Google likes hiring programmers who contribute to open source projects because they're more self-motivated. On open source projects, volunteers may be assigned tasks, but often they recognize a need and propose to fill it. This and many other interesting topics came up at the party celebrating the opening of Google's larger Cambridge, Massachusetts office.
[Publish Date: May 14, 2008]
Open Solaris User Group Meeting Recap: Open Source, Virtualization, and ...
By Noah Gift
Last night I went to my first Open Solaris User Group meeting. It was located at the Sun Office in Alpharetta, Georgia, and I learned quite a bit about the new roadmap for Solaris. The new roadmap at first glance, seems to...
[Publish Date: April 09, 2008]
Speaker: Stormy Peters: OSCON 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, July 20 - 24, ...
Stormy Peters currently works as the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. Stormy joined the GNOME Foundation from OpenLogic where she set up their OpenLogic Expert Community. Previously, Stormy worked at Hewlett-Packard (HP) where she founded and managed the Open Source Program Office that is responsible for HP's open source strategy, policy and business practices. Stormy joined HP as a software engineer in the Unix Development Lab after graduating from Rice University with a B.A. in Computer Science.
[Publish Date: July 20, 2009]
Blue Sun? What an IBM acquisition of Sun means for software - O'Reilly
By Kurt Cagle
Sun's software side of the acquisition ledger, especially by IBM, has been rather oddly overlooked, given that it will likely have major implications for software development and cloud computing for years. Sun's software holdings cover five primary areas - Java, Solaris, mySQL, Open Office, and Sun's recently acquired QLayer cloud infrastructure. Understanding how IBM could potentially ramp up (or destroy) each of these gives some interesting insight into the real value of IBM's potential software acquisitions.
[Publish Date: March 23, 2009]
Experiments with numbering and horizontal rule in AbiWord - O'Reilly Broadcast
By Rick Jelliffe
I loathe making documents with numbered headings or any kind of definite design in Word Processors. I find numbered headings and lists annoying in Word at best, maddening in Open Office at worst, so I have been using AbiWord today. If you want to take a design-driven approach, then most Word Processors just suck. AbiWord is a non-nonsense, calm-feeling free WP not targeted at very large documents. It has a native XML format pretty simple for transformations into and out of, and basic ODF and OOXML import/export.
[Publish Date: September 01, 2009]
