Migrating ODF and LibreOffice in Taiwan
- 1. 中華民國軟體自由協會 Migrating ODF and LibreOffice in Taiwan Governments, Enterprises and NPOs By Franklin Weng The LibreOffice Migration Professional Member, The Document Foundation Jun 25, 2016
- 2. 中華民國軟體自由協會 A Long, Long Way to Open Document Format...
- 3. 中華民國軟體自由協會 The Story Started at... A:2009 Q:When did Taiwan decide to use ODF as national document standard?
- 4. 中華民國軟體自由協會 Then The Happy Story Ended Soon... Until... Because nobody cares... WTF?!
- 5. 中華民國軟體自由協會 UK announced to leave EU use ODF as national standard in July, 2014
- 6. 中華民國軟體自由協會 Chain Reactions... In the bottom half of 2014, National Development Council (NDC) in Taiwan started a series of forums to promote ODF as national standard file format AGAIN
- 7. 中華民國軟體自由協會 A 3-Year Project For Adopting ODF ● NDC announced a NATIONAL POLICY and started a 3-year project for adopting ODF. – Converting all the old Microsoft Office format (including OOXML) into ODF before end of 2015. – Attachments in the official documents must be 100% in ODF(editable) or PDF(uneditable) formats before end of 2016. – All the units and users in government units must use office software suites that "Can Produce Standard ODF 1.2".
- 8. 中華民國軟體自由協會 13 Explanation Sessions All Over Taiwan Lecturers in SLAT explained why we should use ODF as our standard.
- 9. 中華民國軟體自由協會 How we tell people about WHY we should use ODF We use 3 different aspects to make people think
- 10. 中華民國軟體自由協會 Different Aspects to Make People Think 1. Actually, both ODF and OOXML are international open file format stardards. However, what will happen if we choose OOXML as our national file format standard?
- 11. If We Choose OOXML... Office 2007 Office 2003 2003 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Office 2010 Office 2013 Office 2016 Office 2000 Office XP Office 97 Office 95 Office 4.3 Office 4.0 Office 3.0
- 12. 中華民國軟體自由協會 Different Aspects to Make People Think 2. Why we should use Open Stardard File Format? What if we use a proprietary format which is drawing up by a single commercial company?
- 13. 中華民國軟體自由協會 Different Aspects to Make People Think 3. International trends
- 14. 中華民國軟體自由協會 Using ODF Is An International Trend ● Countries adopting ODF with national policy: – United Kingdom – Taiwan – Netherlands – Spain – Hungary
- 15. 中華民國軟體自由協會 Using ODF Is An International Trend ● Some interesting incidents about adopting ODF – The Defense Department of Italy announced to adopt ODF and LibreOffice to 150,000 computers in September 2015 – The National Procurement Services in Sweden suggested 46 IT open standards, including ODF 1.2, HTML5, SVG, … and so on. ● What the news didn't say: No OOXML!!
- 16. 中華民國軟體自由協會 Finally: How We Face The Problems We Meet? ● People ALWAYS complain and resist a lot when they have problems or get frustrated using FOSS (not only LibreOffice!) ● Therefore, we made them recall some "Good Memories…"
- 19. 中華民國軟體自由協會 Current Status of Using ODF in Taiwan
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- 22. 中華民國軟體自由協會 Central Government Units: Ministry of Finance ● All the PCs in MoF have already installed LibreOffice. So let's see another interesting statistics: How many MS Office left: – Information Center: This is the main unit which strongly migrated LibreOffice and ODF into Ministry of Finance. Its installed MSO number is 74 out of 765 PCs, 9.67%. – National Taxation Bureaus: Taipei City, North area, Mid area, South Area, Kaohsiung City:1,193 out of 13,858, 8.6%. – Other units in MoF: 4,945 out of 22,459, 22%.
- 23. 中華民國軟體自由協會 Central Government Units: Ministry of Finance ● Total installed MSO ratio is 16.8%. ● Target in 2016: Total installed MSO ratio should be down below 10%. ● BTW, files sent out from National Taxation Bureaus are already 100% in ODF format.
- 24. 中華民國軟體自由協會 Enterprise: Coretronic ● Started to migrate LibreOffice since 2010, with the help of OSSII Co., Ltd. ● First, they clarify what users really need. ● Then according to the investigation, they propose a hybrid solution. – For the departments and users who really need Microsoft Office, they keep nearly 15%-20% licenses. – For other departments and users they migrate OxOffice, which is a commercial office suite derived from LibreOffice. ● Not only LibreOffice, but also migrate many other FOSS in their organization.
- 25. 中華民國軟體自由協會 NPO: Genesis Social Welfare Foundation ● A big NPO which is concerned about – Plant men – Homeless people – Old people who live alone ● "Being concerned" by Microsoft in 2015. ● The director of Information Department decided to fully migrate LibreOffice, starting from 2016. ● Genesis consults SLAT to plan the training courses and help them to work with LibreOffice. ● Slowly progressing.
- 26. 中華民國軟體自由協會 Conclusion ● The Document Foundation starts to pay attention to marketing in Asia, starting from Taiwan and India. ● Possible event: "Month of LibreOffice" in Taiwan. ● SLAT keeps helping NDC and many other units to migrate ODF / LibreOffice into their organizations. ● Open, Definite, and Freedom!