Rob's summary is characteristically excellent. But I'd like to add: ODF 1.2 marks a milestone, to be sure, but also point of departure. What comes next? Meanwhile, at OOoCon, on 2 September, in Budapest, we'll be conducting a demonstration of ODF 1.2. The idea is to have a narrative that scopes the power and flexibility of the format and that lift it from being only an office suite. As I've long argued and insisted, even, the tools of production, like OOo, give users remarkable power to do things that exceed the narrow imagination constituting the "office". But acting on our imagination and making sure that others (including ourselves, later) can act on our acts is hardly trivial. It never has been.
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