ODF India Alliance

What is ODF

The OpenDocument format (ODF), short for the OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications, is an open document file format for saving and exchanging editable office documents such as text documents (including memos, reports, and books), spreadsheets, databases, charts, and presentations. This standard was developed by the OASIS industry consortium, based upon the XML-based file format originally created by OpenOffice.org, and ODF was approved as an OASIS standard on May 1, 2005. A draft for the ISO ISO/IEC 26300 was approved on May 3, 2006.

About ODF Alliance

As documents and services are increasingly transformed from paper to electronic form, there is a growing problem that governments and their constituents may not be able to access, retrieve and use critical records, information and documents in the future. To enable the public sector to have greater control over and direct management of their own records, information and documents, the ODF Alliance seeks to promote and advance the use of OpenDocument Format (ODF).

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.

More information can be found at the official website www.odfalliance.org.

About ODF India Alliance

ODF Alliance which seeks to promote and advance the use of OpenDocument format (ODF) as a key element of desktop and web-based document creation as well as use within a Service Oriented Architecture for governments to construct and deliver online government services based on open standards. To accomplish this objective, an India chapter of the Alliance was formed on March 14, 2006, which will :

• Identify, support and promote governments, agencies and public organizations worldwide embracing ODF.
• Work closely with governments and organizations to facilitate their adoption of policies that embrace ODF, and to help implement these policies.
• Provide a unified industry voice on the need for and benefits of ODF, including a repository of white papers and other materials that demonstrate its critical value.

The India chapter current members include: NIC, CDAC, NISG, IIT, IIM, OSSRC, IBM, Sun, Redhat, Novell, TCS, Oracle.

Achievements

Three cheers for ODF-india team! India has voted in favour of ODF ( Open Document Format ) on april 28th. All credit goes to efforts taken by our ODF-india team. The poll received 100% votes from Permanent members. Now Open Document Format is ISO / IEC standard ( Document reference ISO/IEC DIS 26300 ).

Applications supporting ODF

We have a list of various application softwares supporting Open Document Format. The list can be found here.

Join ODF India Alliance

Membership in the Alliance is open to all organisations that are committed to its mission. To join the Alliance, sign-up your company or organization here.

Upcoming Events

ODF India Seminar on June 23 .                                            Agenda                                 
The National Seminar on Open Document Format is being held to focus on the impact of ODF on India and the Indian governments, as well as to increase the awareness of the issue. The seminar is being hosted by the Department of Management Sciences, IIT Delhi, alongwith NIC. More information is here.

ODF wiki

We have created a wiki page so that anyone who is willing to contribute can have place to post his information. You can access the ODF page in OSSRC wiki here.