A few months ago, I was at home drinking a beer and playing guitar when a blues riff  appeared on my mind. I immediately hooked my acoustic-electric guitar to my notebook and recorded the riff idea using a free software that is super versatile and useful called Audacity (besides being the “Swiss Army knife” of […]

On the May 1st, it was celebrated the fifth anniversary of the ODF 1.0 approval by OASIS ODF TC, and many interesting texts have been published since then. I waited a few days to post mine, and I see I did well, because now I can do an overview of what was written on the […]

As if the dirty things he did with Brazil during the OpenXML BRM in ISO wasn’t sufficient, now Alex Brown suggests in his blog that Brazil shouldn’t be a SC34 member at JTC1. Reason: Brazil did not send delegates to the SC34 WG’s meeting in Paris last week!
Seeing that I was nominated as one of […]

It’s been over a year and a half I wrote about the unfortunate events that occurred in the last days of the OpenXML’s BRM, when the Brazilian delegation was prevented by the BRM convenor (Alex Brown) brought out a major proposal related to the binary documents (legacy) mapping for OpenXML.In short, Microsoft claimed throughout the […]

I started today the exhausting task of reading the OpenXML corrigendas and amendments that will be in ISO in the next two months, and it just reminded me of one crucial question unanswered about OpenXML: Who fooled who?More than two months ago, was reported a process that Microsoft has lost regarding patent infringement in OpenXML […]

Last week, Sérgio Amadeu published an excellent text about the Brazilian National Conference of Communication and in the text, he lists what he considers the rights of citizens in communication through digital networks.
On past weekend, I met with him and some friends, and agreed that the drafting of a statement like this is very important, […]

I spent the entire last week in Brasilia, participating in the ODF Workshop and CONSEGI 2009 and I would like to share with you here some things that I saw, heard and spoke there.The ODF Workshop 2009 lasted one and a half days (25 and 26 August) and with average attendance over 40 people on […]

No, the title doesn’t refer to any part of the specification, but refers to the “ecosystem” that is currently formed around ODF.  Two years ago when the topic was ODF, there were only three types of people in world:
1 - Those who didn’t knew ODF.
2 - Those […]

The FISL 10 (International Forum of Free Software) was for me the best FISL ever, and I  consider myself a veteran on this event (yes, I’d anonymously circulated in the crowd on some past FISL editions and the atmosphere of freedom that I’ve breathe there gave me the courage and force to face the battles […]

On the past years, we’ve seen a lot of mess on the standardization world, and in my opinion most of that mess just happened because “World has changed” but normalization fellas don’t.
Most of those folks are working with standardization since I was born (1974), and I recognize that it isn’t an easy task to understand […]