Wikipedia to Support ODF
The Wikimedia Foundation, the organization responsible for the Wikipedia, has announced plans to support ODF export from the MediaWiki wiki engine. From the press release: “This technology is of key...
View ArticleVentureCake on OpenOffice 3
OpenOffice.org 3.0 is coming this fall, and many people are already starting to get excited about it. VentureCake is excited about its PDF import, native Mac OS X Aqua interface, and more: “We love...
View ArticleOOo Extensions: Wiki Publisher
The OpenOffice.org Extensions ecosystem continues to grow. In fact, the OOo development team has adopted a strategy of providing some core functions as extensions, in order to keep the code base...
View ArticleODF Wiki
Combining two of my interests, Kay Ramme of Sun has created “ODF@WWW,” an ODF Wiki. It includes some of the capabilities I had envisioned in my post about an OpenOffice wiki extension, and adds some...
View ArticleChandler User Stories
It’s been a long time since I mentioned OSAF or Chandler here, but the project continues to develop and grow and progress toward a 1.0 release. The website (built on TWiki) has a section I just noticed...
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ODF@WWW Wiki Becomes an Official Incubator Project
ODF@WWW, Kay Ramme’s wiki project built on OpenOffice and ODF, has been accepted as an official incubator project, Ramme announces. He presented it at the recently-concluded OpenOffice.org Conference...
View ArticleFoswiki Arrives
After a rift in the TWiki project led to a fork, the new version has chosen its name and formally launched as Foswiki, for “Free and Open Source Wiki.” Foswiki’s project goals are: “Foswiki promises...
View ArticleFoswiki 1.0 Beta Series
Foswiki, the heir of TWiki, has released some first betas for the version 1.0 landmark release after its forking from TWiki. Kenneth Lavrsen emailed the list to inform us of the first beta, writing: It...
View ArticleLotus Symphony Wiki
IBM has been a significant promoter of two of my major interests: wikis (specifically for corporate intranet content management) and OpenOffice.org (specifically, IBM’s “distro” of it called Lotus...
View Article25 Highly-Anticipated Open Source Releases
ComputerWorld publishes a lengthy piece titled 25 Highly-Anticipated Open Source Releases Coming This Year. It’s a roundup of some major open source project releases scheduled for the rest of this...
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