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Ways of working - experiments and odysseys

Posted by: Fliss Benee, Posted on: 4 March 2015 - Categories: Open standards

...might be applications and approaches that could make your work easier to do and much easier to share. So how was the clinic? I used a web-based presentation app called...

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Learning from each other – the move to open formats

Posted by: Linda Humphries, Posted on: 22 January 2015 - Categories: Open standards

On 14 January we held our first Open Formats Clinic, with around 25 people joining from across government.

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10th ODF Plugfest: keeping track of progress

Posted by: Linda Humphries, Posted on: 16 December 2014 - Categories: Open standards

In July this year, the UK government selected an open standard to use for all editable documents created by government - Open Document Format (ODF). I blogged in November about...

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GDS hosting the 10th ODF Plugfest

Posted by: Linda Humphries, Posted on: 18 November 2014 - Categories: Open standards

We announced in July that we had selected an open standard for sharing or collaborating on government documents – the Open Document Format (ODF).

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Getting to grips with document formats

Posted by: Linda Humphries, Posted on: 7 October 2014 - Categories: Open standards

I’ve got one of those sorts of problems that is nice to have. One that shows me that there is energy and passion to do things right in government.

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Learning by doing at the Festival of Code

Posted by: Siju Salami, Posted on: 15 September 2014 - Categories: Digital and Technology fast stream
Young coders at Bright Futures Centre, MediaCityUK, Manchester

...to a panel of judges. Fifteen outstanding projects made it through to the finals. One example was Miles Per Pound. Using just a vehicle plate number, the web service could...

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Unlocking government documents

Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 23 July 2014 - Categories: Open standards
Linda Humphries and Zaheda Bhorat

Linda Humphries, Head of Open Standards in the Office of the Chief Technology Officer, talks us through what the announcement about document formats means for Technology Leaders in government.

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