{"id":5948,"date":"2015-04-16T08:06:21","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T08:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=5948"},"modified":"2015-04-16T08:13:06","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T08:13:06","slug":"hungarian-universities-adopt-odf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=5948","title":{"rendered":"Hungarian universities adopt ODF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joinup, the EU&#8217;s public sector open source news site, reports that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elte.hu\/en\">E\u00f6tv\u00f6s University<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.u-szeged.hu\/english\">Szeged University<\/a> in Hungary are increasing their use of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opendocumentformat.org\/aboutODF\/\">Open Document Format<\/a> (ODF).<\/p>\n<p>Between them the 2 universities have some 45,000 students.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/04\/tn_odf.png\" alt=\"ODF logo\" width=\"150\" height=\"134\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5949\" \/>In addition, both universities have also signed licences with MultiR\u00e1ci\u00f3 of Budapest for the deployment and support of 34,000 copies of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.multiracio.hu\/\">EuroOffice<\/a>, a free and open source office suite developed especially for the Hungarian market, but based on both major free and open source suites, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libreoffice.org\/\">LibreOffice<\/a> and OpenOffice. EuroOffice is available in 2 versions &#8211; free and professional &#8211; for both Windows and Linux. It can also be installed in 7 languages &#8211; English (US variant), German, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish and Hungarian &#8211; which MultiR\u00e1ci\u00f3 claims are the native languages of 85% of the EU&#8217;s population.<\/p>\n<p>The Hungarian government decided to promote the use of both EuroOffice and ODF in schools and universities in 2014. MultiR\u00e1ci\u00f3&#8217;s senior software developer K\u00e1zm\u00e9r Kolesz\u00e1r described these initiatives as &#8220;an important policy change&#8221;, given that the country&#8217;s public sector had been reliant on MS Office for the preceding 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>MultiR\u00e1ci\u00f3 is actively involved in the ODF specification, being a member of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oasis-open.org\/\">OASIS<\/a>, a non-profit consortium promoting the development, convergence and adoption of open standards for the global information society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joinup, the EU&#8217;s public sector open source news site, reports that E\u00f6tv\u00f6s University and Szeged University in Hungary are increasing their use of Open Document Format (ODF). Between them the 2 universities have some 45,000 students. In addition, both universities have also signed licences with MultiR\u00e1ci\u00f3 of Budapest for the deployment and support of 34,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,30,9],"tags":[19,22,24,12,11,23],"class_list":["post-5948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source-software","category-open-standards","category-tech","tag-free-software","tag-language","tag-odf","tag-open-source","tag-open-standards","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5948"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5954,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5948\/revisions\/5954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}