"Younger people will have trouble picturing this, but #Google used to nurture an image of being the “good one” among megacorps; they championed #openstandards (except when they didn’t), supported #opensource projects (until they backstabbed them), and used language that corporate wasn’t supposed to use, like #dontbeEvil (until they,in a true dark comedy move, retracted that motto).
I was always an anarchist, abstractly, but in many ways Google was my political awakening."
https://wordsmith.social/elilla/deep-in-mordor-where-the-shadows-lie-dystopian-stories-of-my-time-as-a-googler

Looking at the Common Alert Protocol (https://docs.oasis-open.org/emergency/cap/v1.2/CAP-v1.2-os.html), for our Service Alerts (https://github.com/cityofcapetown/service-alerts-connector/) - reasonably sure I could do a translation, and just offer it as another output form.

Anyone have any experience, good or bad? It's main proponent has been #Google, and looks like its been soft deprecated

Frage: Haben Sie wirklich die Kontrolle über Ihre Daten? Je nachdem, welche Formate Sie verwenden, könnte die Antwort nein lauten. Hier ist der Grund, warum das Open Document Format (wie es von LibreOffice und anderen Suiten verwendet wird) so wichtig ist:
https://de.blog.documentfoundation.org/2025/05/23/warum-ist-das-open-document-format-odf-so-wichtig/
#openstandards #fedilz #schule #Verwaltung

Question: do you really have control over your data? Depending on the formats you use, that answer might be no. Here's why the Open Document Format (as used by LibreOffice and other suites) is important: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/05/23/why-is-odf-important/ #openstandards

€264 Billion Annually: Asterès Report Quantifies Europe's Digital Dependency.

Time to invest in Europe's #digitalsovereignty, by supporting European industry and digital commons, prioritising #freesoftware and #opensource & #openstandards

That's what the #EuroStack calls for
https://euro-stack.com/blog/2025/5/asteres-report-europe-digital-dependency

#AsterèsReport

Cc @commonsnetwork

"Or wherever you get your podcasts"

is quite possibly the the biggest achievement of open and decentralized standards that everyday folk come across regularly.

(but also, if there's no RSS, it doesnt exist to me)

Open Document Format (ODF) is the standard format in #LibreOffice – but can also be used in many other office suites (including Microsoft's!) And now we're celebrating its 20th anniversary: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/05/09/odf-20th-anniversary-video/ #foss #opensource #openstandards

Popularity ≠ superiority. Proprietary text document formats is yet another proof of Microsoft's crookedness—their subpar products only able to stay afloat by unethical anti-competitive behaviour.

https://ia.net/topics/markdown-and-the-slow-fade-of-the-formatting-fetish

#minimalism #WYSIWYM #Markdown #Microsoft #OpenStandards #LyX #EatTheRich

Open Document Format turns 20, but Microsoft Office still reigns supreme

“It’s been 20 years since the Open Document Format (ODF) became a standard, marking a milestone in the push for open, vendor-neutral file formats — and the beginning of a long but largely unsuccessful attempt to loosen Microsoft Office’s grip on the ...continues

See https://gadgeteer.co.za/open-document-format-turns-20-but-microsoft-office-still-reigns-supreme/

Open Document Format turns 20, but Microsoft Office still reigns supreme

https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-fc090480-85ad0e4d0bf2a1b7

Germany to move to Open Document Format (ODF).

#odf #opensource #openstandards

https://www.slwoods.co.uk/?p=15446

"Der IT-Planungsrat setzt sich dafür ein, dass in der Öffentlichen Verwaltung offene Formate wie das Open Document Format (ODF) zunehmend Verwendung findet und bis 2027 zum Standard für den Dokumentenaustausch wird."

#ODF #OpenStandards #opensource #Deutschland

https://www.it-planungsrat.de/beschluss/beschluss-2025-06

@ezra personally I think #Apple should be forced.to implement #AV1 & #WebM and that @EUCommission could mandate #OpenStandards.

• As for quality, were it not for #patents and espechally #SoftwarePantents, we'd have way better #Codecs, but this way people engineering a #FLOSS #Codec are constantly required to specifically avoid infringement of Patents and other IP by not using anything remotely related to it...

Also if #H265 wasn't #patented and facing #PatentTrolls and #rentseekers we'd see way better quality there as well.

• Cuz #CCSS & #FLOSS can't share code nor expertise at all.

And yes, Apple (#MPEGLA-Member) is at the root of the problem!

The Open Charge Alliance host our CEO, Amanda Brock in a webinar on "Open Source and Open Standards, the Highway to Governance" . Register: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/2505045274670389087 #opensource #openstandards #openuk #openchargealliance

@bjoernsta presenting #savesocial campaign at #ahoy

5 goals to ensuring freedom of expressions
5 goals to strengthening alternative #platforms

#openstandards
#outlinks
#publicmoneypubliccode

Savesocial.eu