[Foss4g2008loc] SA to adopt ODF and GML as government standards

Gavin Fleming GavinF at mintek.co.za
Fri Oct 26 04:48:44 EDT 2007


Hi all

 

In line with its Open Source / Open Standards policy, the SA government
has made ODF, GML and various other open standards national standards
for all government communication. See message and article below. The
Tectonic article has a link to the official pdf with all the detail. 

 

Gavin

 

________________________________

From: Quinn Reynolds 
Sent: 26 October 2007 09:45 AM
Subject: MLUG - For interest: SA to adopt ODF as government standard

 

ODF is the "Open Document Format", a file standard for spreadsheets,
word processor documents, and other office productivity applications.
It's similar to Microsoft's .xls, .doc, etc formats, only open for
anyone to implement :-)

ODF is the primary document format of the open source OpenOffice suite.

http://tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1838

Cheers,
Quinn

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