If you are a software user who is not also a government/enterprise policy maker or software developer, the most important thing to note is that the Free Software OpenOffice.org suite will be a reference implimentation of any standard. Your use of this tool today will help promote international standardization in this area, so please download and install this suite today (Note: It is Free, so well worth the price!).
The following are the relevant links:
- OASIS Open Office XML Format TC Note "Open Office XML Format" means this is an Open format. OpenOffice.org is a specific office suite that will just happen to adopt this format, but it will not be the only suite using this format.
- OpenOffice.org Inter Office Suite Collaboration - " This site will contain up to date information on the ongoing quest for standardisation amongst the various open office suites. It is hosted at OpenOffice.org and is meant to be the home for all office developers interested in this effort, particularly GnomeOffice, KOffice and OpenOffice.org. We hope to find many possible areas where we can collaborate, and hopefully share code. "
- CoverPages.org: XML File Formats for Office Documents - reference documents for
oasis-open project.
- 1doc.org started work towards a single document exchange format - ultimately deciding that the OpenOffice.org format was the best start.
- Free Standards Group - Supported by the development community and IT industry leaders, the Free Standards Group is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating the use and acceptance of open source technologies through the development, application and promotion of standards.
- International Components for Unicode
- The Free standards Group Open Internationalization Initiative