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Berlin 2007

"The Promise of ODF to the Practical Realities of Implementation"

Welcome to the site for the 2nd International ODF User Workshop on 9-10 October 2008 in Pretoria. The event, hosted by South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs in collaboration with the ODF Alliance, will bring together officials from governments around the world that have already made the move to ODF or are actively considering how best to utilize an open format to preserve access to documents and increase choice of software for governments and citizens alike – and save money in the process.

ODF has come of age in 2008. Since the first ODF workshop in Berlin in October 2007, governments have moved from policy adoption and are now down the road to implementation. Our conference tracks this year will include:

• Implementation and Migration – Lessons Learned & Best Practices

• Interoperability – Adherence to ODF, Implementation Guidelines & Test Suites

• ODF 1.2 – Metadata, Spreadsheet Formula, Digital Signatures and More: What's New with ODF?

• Applications Support – Thinking Inside and Outside the Office Productivity Suite

The workshop will take place at the Department of Science & Technology (DST) Building (Building no. 53 - CSIR South Gate Entrance), 627 Meiring Naude Road, Brummeria 0001 (Pretoria), South Africa (map).  For more information, please contact Marino Marcich