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I mentioned this a a month ago, but that was, well, a month ago, and the deadline is tomorrow. The XML 2007 Call for Papers ends tomorrow. Proposals need to include speaker information, a short abstract, and a suggestion for…

Here is my free advise to headline writers: please use “Maybe” for the countries that vote “No with comments” on DIS 29500 (Office Open XML). Those are effectively the four major votes that can be given on an ISO standard…

You’ve probably seen it. IBM’s Rob Wier’s 2006 diagram comparing the number of pages of various standards versus the time they spent in committee. It makes its appearance unchallenged regularly: indeed IBM (the vendor of a closed source office suite…

Vote “No”? But aren’t I supposed to be Microsoft’s biggest fanboy? Well, what I mean is a conditional approval, not a rejection. There are some things that can be fixed and should be fixed, and an ISO Ballot Resolution Meeting…

Fedora Commons - About - News Fedora Commons today announced the award of a four year, $4.9M grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to develop the organizational and technical frameworks necessary to effect revolutionary change in how scientists,…

The deadline for the National Bodies to vote on DIS 29500 Office Open XML (fast-tracked from Ecma 376) is coming up on September 2: this is the vote that comes at the end of the 5 month review, which is…

It was perhaps inevitable - having turned the geospatial Earth into an animated, zoomable extravaganza, Google has turned its gaze skyward. With Google Sky, the tens of thousands of Hubble based images (as well as those of more prosaic Earth-bound…

This decade has seen a tectonic shift in technology: the new information applications which are succeeding are those in which information is based on simple topics; the new document major document formats are those which allow the packaging of a…

I don’t normally like using this column for promoting my other projects, but I’m weighing this against the fact that I actually have some interesting news to pass on. Thus, my apologies for the self-aggrandizements - I think you may…