OpenDoc Society - The Hague, October 23rd 2007

Kris Buytaert writes:

Next week, October 23th, the official founding meeting of OpenDoc Society will take place in The Netherlands Royal Library in The Hague.

OpenDoc Society aims to bring together individuals and organisations with a stake or interest in the openness and future of documents to learn from each other and share knowledge, both from technical, legal, practical or even political background.

An increasing number of governments - such as the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Brazil and Denmark - are moving away from such single vendor-based file formats and have started using ODF.

Join them there!

A second meeting will be announced later to take place in Gent, Belgium.

The founding meeting of OpenDoc Society will be held on Tuesday October 23rd 2007 in the aula of the Royal Library in The Hague, The Netherlands between 15.00 and 17.00 o'clock (doors open at 14.30). The programme includes prominent speakers such as Frank Heemskerk (minister of Foreign Economic Affairs of The Netherlands), dr. Karel de Vriendt (Head of IDABC, European Commission) and Patrick Durusau (chair of INCITS V1 and one of the editors of the Open Document Format standard). Afterwards we will celebrate with drinks and some fine food.
You are invited!