[CALUG] March 13 Meeting Announcement -- Open Document Format

[Chuck Frain]

Greetings All,

For the March 13, 2019 CALUG meeting we will be welcoming Ray Lischner who
will be talking about Open Document Format: Inside-Out.

Open Document Format (ODF) is the only usable international standard for
office documents. LibreOffice is the best known tool for creating and
editing ODF files, but hundreds of other tools use these file formats, too.
But have you ever thought about what is inside a .odt file? This talk
cracks open the file, and shows the XML documents that are the true
contents and formatting. As an example, the odfgrep tool is demonstrated as
a grep-equivalent program that searches within ODF files, especially text
files (.odt). Knowing the internal structure enables you to write new tools
to slice and dice ODF files in order to extract data or to create ODF files
from scratch. No programming skill is needed to understand the talk or ODF.

About the Speaker:

Ray Lischner has been writing software for several decades, books for
slightly fewer decades, and ODF tools to help him write his books.

We will be hosted at the UMBC Training Center, located at 6996 Columbia
Gateway Dr #100, Columbia, MD 21046. When you walk in through the mail
lobby make a right. We will be at the end of the hall in the last room on
the right. Our friends at Aplura will be providing the pizza and soda
starting at 6:30. The talk will start about 7pm.

We are looking for speakers for the upcoming months. If you have a topic
you would like to present on, please let me know and I’ll get you scheduled.

http://calug.org
https://www.umbctraining.com/Home
https://aplura.com
http://www.opendocumentformat.org/
https://www.libreoffice.org/

-- 
Chuck Frain
GPG Key: B2420431
http://www.chuckfrain.net
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