Back from 2010, still very valid: my thoughts and wishes about possible future evolutions of the OpenDocument Format for office texts, presentations and spreadsheets. Background and more info at http://mfioretti.com/2010/09/budapest-openoffice-org-conference-2010-odf-scripting-and-odf-future/

1. What do I want to see
in
ODF-next?
Semi-random thoughts
from a non-programmer
Marco Fioretti
http://mfioretti.com

2. I am tempted to say...Nothing!
Or, more exactly:
Nothing but advocacy!
● An ODF reader on every desktop (and
smartphone, game console, car, TV,
browser...
● Make it impossible to refuse an ODF file
“because I don't know how to open it”
Marco Fioretti
http://mfioretti.com

3. Go beyond the paper page:
● Don't be limited by book concepts like ToCs
with pages
● Support for Bible-like sentence level cross-
referencing and indexing
● Useful in contracts and other legal and non
legal documents
Marco Fioretti
http://mfioretti.com
OK, what would I like to see in ODF?

4. ● Convergence with UDF?
● Integration/replacement of UBL
(Universal Business Language)?
Marco Fioretti
http://mfioretti.com
OK, what would I like to see in ODF? (2)

5. ● (above all) Support for Metadata in the
same microformats already popular on the
Web
● Drag and drop addresses and other stuff to
and from databases or Web forms
● Ask the computer
● “find all the phone numbers in this ODF file
and add them to my contacts manager
● “send an email to all the addresses in this
slideshow”
Marco Fioretti
http://mfioretti.com
OK, what would I like to see in ODF? (3)

6. (slide added after the discussions that followed my
other presentation on ODF-scripting at OOOcon 2010)
● Please do keep ODF as simple to hack as it is today and has
been from the very beginning
● Otherwise I and all other non programmers will have much
more problems to quickly hack ODF as I explain at
http://freesoftware.zona-m.net/odf-scripting
● Thanks for keeping ODF simple!
Marco Fioretti
http://mfioretti.com
Wait! Here's another thing I want to see
in ODF-next!!!