VESA : the LCD TV wall mount standard !

https://www.avsupports.com/page.asp?pageidx=117
The standards provide specific guidelines of the mounting hole pattern placement, screw size, and guidelines for the mounting pad or mounting apparatus to be utilized by equipment manufacturers based on a the size of the screen and monitor's weight.Additional details can be found by ordering the specific FDMI mounting design specification directly from the VESA organization or going to their website at www.vesa.org

In my day VESA was just a video standard and plasma & LCD TVs hadn't been invented yet !

http://www.openxmlcommunity.org/
We believe that Open XML can help spark an explosion of innovation and investment, which will bring great benefits for customers and the broad ecosystem, in the years to come. We support Open XML becoming an ISO standard.

http://openxmldeveloper.org/
Announced March 21, 2006, the Open XML Formats Developer Group was initially founded by 40 organizations from around the world to provide a technical forum for developers who are interested in using the Ecma International-developed Office Open XML file formats. Membership in the community is open to anyone free of charge to enable broad development with the formats, regardless of platform. Below are further details on the community’s goals, developers who are involved in working with the Office Open XML formats, and quotes about the value of the community and the formats.

The Tango Desktop Project defines an icon style guideline to which artists and designers can adhere. A sample implementation of the style is available as an icon theme based upon a standardized icon naming specification. In addition, the project provides transitional utilities to assist in creating icon themes for existing desktop environments, such as GNOME and KDE.

or find even more icons @ http://www.iconfinder.net/

Is anyone using Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) v1.0 ?

How good useful is it ?

See also

• http://xml.coverpages.org/dita.html
• DocBook.org
• Eliot Kimber: How Did You Decide Between DocBook, DITA, or Custom DTDs?
• "DITA for DocBook: Implementing the Darwin Information Typing Architecture for DocBook." 
• OASIS DocBook TC web site
• DocBook Open Repository Project
• "DocBook XML DTD"

ODF compared against OOXML

EOOXML Objections

http://www.grokdoc.net/index.php/EOOXML_objections

OOXML and ISO: Fact and Fancy

from
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/

Tuesday, February 13 2007 @ 06:04 AM PST

Given that there has been a fair amount of information, disinformation, and supposition flying around, I thought that I should share some additional details that I've learned relating to the contradictions received by JTC 1 regarding Ecma 376 (nee MS OOXML). 

OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC ODF) which is used by Sun OpenOffice.org
http://www.odfalliance.org/

IS NOT THE SAME AS

Office Open XML (EMCA OOXML) which is used by MS Office
The British Standards Institute, which represents the UK with the International Standards Organisation, has issued what is called a "contradiction" to Microsoft's specification.

See also
OOXML Fact Sheet
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20070131184453743
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20070206145620473

There are quite a few organisations involved in the Open Document Format (ODF):

OpenDocument XML.org
The official community gathering place and information resource for the OpenDocument OASIS Standard (ISO/IEC 26300). OpenDocument provides a format that enables users of varying office suites to freely exchange documents.

The OpenDocument Foundation, Inc.
A 501c(3) non profit chartered to work in the public interest to support, promote and develop the OASIS OpenDocument File Format affectionately known as "ODf".  

ODF 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 fully and natively accessible across platforms and applications, even as technologies change.

OASIS
Standards are approved within an OASIS Committee, submitted for public review, implemented by at least three organizations, and finally ratified by the Consortium's membership at-large.

ISO/IEC 26300, Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.0
has been designed to be used as a default file format for office applications with no increase in file size or loss of data integrity.

It will allow users to save and exchange editable office documents such as text documents (including memos, reports, and books), spreadsheets, databases, charts, and presentations – regardless of application or platform in which the files were created.

http://www.iso.org/iso/en/commcentre/pressreleases/2006/Ref1004.html

OpenOffice.org uses ODF !