I received a lot of messages from many people in recent days with comments or asking my opinion about the announcement made last week, that Microsoft was publishing the “technical details” of their ODF implementation. In first place, I would like to warn everyone that the extensive document published is nothing more than the ODF […]

On the first days of this month, during the third edition of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF 2008) in India, a document / agreement was developed by a group of experts on open standards and government representatives which commits its signatories to the adoption of open standards by 2010:
 
Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards (DCOS) Agreement […]

I am publishing this post almost three months later than my initial plan, mainly because the past three months were very complicated ones.
There are many “open standards” definitions, and this great amount of interpretations or views about the subject, allowed distortions to make possible that almost anything on IT market could be classified as an […]

As most of you already know, I spent the month of October in a marathon of speeches about ODF. During the marathon, I had the opportunity to attend some presentations about Microsoft Interoperability and would like to share with you here some information about that cool experience (the post is long but worth a read).
The […]

They did a better event (as if it was possible).
The Latinoware 2008 managed to be better than the previous edition, which makes us very anxious to Latinoware 2009.
I met with old friends and made many new friends all over Latin American continent. It was also very good to know some faces behind the emails.
ODF was […]

One of the best organized Open Source conference that I’ve ever attended (I won’t said that it was “the best” to not annoy my friends from FISL and Latinoware, OK:) ).
Despite the number of participants (over 8,000) and speakers (over 250), they had an organization that had really left me open-mouthed. One of the things […]

I attended last week’s ODF Workshop in South Africa, and I really enjoyed the event. It was an excellent opportunity to meet people who work with ODF in governments around the world, exchange experiences on migration, talk about the new features on ODF 1.2 and talk a lot about other things that I really appreciate […]

Last week, 1st of October, was held in Seoul (Korea) a meeting of SC34, the JTC1 committee responsible for standards as the ODF and OpenXML.
At this meeting, Brazil was represented by Microsoft.
I and several other members of our committee protested against this indication, but we had our protests silenced by the Director of ABNT (Brazilian […]

Today I’ve had very gratifying day, because it was my “first time” three times:
This morning, during the CONGED, I had the opportunity to participate for the first time on a debate about ODF and OpenXML with Microsoft (or almost). Microsoft could not send any employee to participate, but sent Leandro Jekimim, a researcher from UNESP-Bauru […]

I am very happy and excited about the marathon that I will face over the next 45 days.
The agenda of talks / discussions / panels will be as follows:
03/10 - VI CONGED (Southern Cone Congress of Data and Metadata Management Technologies) - Curitiba, Parana
09 and 10/10 - II ODF Workshop - Pretoria - South Africa
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