Old news items (2005-2006)
6 July 2006
Microsoft has bowed to the public’s demand for OpenDocument support! Microsoft announced an open source project to write an OpenDocument plugin for Microsoft Office. We would like to thank all the thousands of people representing over 300,000 computers who signed the petition begun by the OpenDocument Fellowship in October 2005.
10 May 2006
A printed version of the OpenOffice 2.0 Migration Guide from the OOoAuthors group has been published.
3 May 2006
ISO and IEC approve OpenDocument as an international standard (ISO/IEC 26300).
22 Apr 2006
A printed version of the OpenOffice 2.0 Draw Guide from the OOoAuthors group has been published.
3 Mar 2006
We are founding members of the OpenDocument Format lliance
24 Jan 2006
We are selling a printed version of J. David Eisenberg’s book OASIS OpenDocument Essentials.
13 Nov 2005
We are selling printed versions of two books about OOo2.0 written by the OOoAuthors group:
Getting Started with OpenOffice.org 2.0
OpenOffice.org 2.0 Writer Guide.
20 Oct 2005
Demand OpenDocument campaign launched by OpenDocument Fellowship.
16 Oct 2005
The first General Meeting of the membership was held on 15-16 Oct 2005.
Minutes are here.
8 Sept 2005
Effective today, we are incorporated.
Post last updated 07 Feb 2007.
