The OpenXmlDeveloper.org web site was announced this morning by Bill Gates during his keynote presentation at the Microsoft Office Developer's Conference. The site is the home for a new community, the Open XML Developer Group. This group is dedicated to helping its members developer software that supports the Open XML Formats on a wide variety of platforms. The Open XML Formats are currently going through the Ecma standards process.
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From Brian Jones ...
The group is completely free and open to anyone. There will be tons of content, code snippets, even free tools for working with the files. I'm especially excited about getting a broad range of folks that work on all different platforms. The more diverse the community, the more interesting and valuable the discussions will be. As time goes on, I hope we will see tools for working on all different kinds of platforms.
From Doug Mahugh ...
As people said on Slashdot yesterday, OpenXmlDeveloper.org is 'just informational'. That's right, guys -while others fight political battles and pander to bureaucrats and lobbyists, we're going to 'just' provide lots of specific information to help developers build world-class software around the Open XML Formats. If that's evil, then we're planning to be extremely evil.
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