Organizations

Open Standards organisations

OpenRAW by Khairil Yusof — last modified 2006-02-13 10:23 PM

OpenRAW is a Working Group of photographers and other people interested in advocating the open documentation of digital camera RAW files.

OpenDocument Format Alliance by Khairil Yusof — last modified 2006-03-10 12:20 PM

The alliance works globally to educate policymakers, IT administrators and the public on the benefits and opportunities of the OpenDocument Format, to help ensure that government information, records and documents are accessible across platforms and applications, even as technologies change today and in the future.

The Free Standards Group by Khairil Yusof — last modified 2004-09-11 05:16 PM

The Free Standards Group is an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the use and acceptance of free and open source software by developing and promoting standards. Key Free Standards Group projects include the Linux Standard Base (LSB), OpenI18N, LANANA and the new Accessibility Workgroup. Supported by leaders in the IT industry as well as the open source development community, the Free Standards Group fulfills a critical need to have common behavioral specifications, tools and ABIs across Linux platforms.

Linux Standard Base Project by Khairil Yusof — last modified 2004-09-11 05:22 PM

LSB's mission is to develop and promote a set of standards that will increase compatibility among Linux distributions and enable software applications to run on any compliant system. In addition, the LSB will help coordinate efforts to recruit software vendors to port and write products for Linux.

Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards by Khairil Yusof — last modified 2004-09-11 05:23 PM

OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is a not-for-profit, international consortium that drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. The consortium produces more Web services standards than any other organization along with standards for security, e-business, and standardization efforts in the public sector and for application-specific markets. Founded in 1993, OASIS has more than 3,000 participants representing over 600 organizations and individual members in 100 countries.

Technical Distinctions of ODF and OOXML by Khairil Yusof — last modified 2007-05-04 07:06 AM

This document reviews the ODF and OOXML formats. It examines some of the nuts and bolts as to how the files are actually formed and the technical merits or otherwise of what is created.