The Free Standards Group is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating the use of free and open source software by developing and promoting standards.
This document contains information relevant to 'Patents and Open Standards' and is part of the Cover Pages resource.
Explains the risks of exchanging data in non-public format and suggests the main alternatives.
Promotes patent-free standards and suggests recommended formats for different kinds of content.
Open standards benefits the consumer.
Explains what is a standard, what is an open standard, and why use open standards on the Internet.
It describes the principles behind the standard, and the practice of offering and operating the standard.
DKUUG is active in the work of standardizing among Open Systems.
This paper develops the argument that many Information Technology standardization processes are in transition from being controlled by standards creators to being controlled by standards implementers.
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It explains why not use proprietary formats and what are the main open alternatives.
Encouraging open data formats by aiming to convince software companies to release data format documentation and to pass laws that governments can only store user data in open format.
Open Standards Repository is an archive of standards relevant to the Open Source community, including licenses, public standards, protocols, RFCs.
Openformats.org is a collaborative documentation project on the definition and use of open formats and public standards, and related technical, economical and political issues.
It is a not-for-profit organization created to connect people to open standards and the bodies that build and foster their growth, integrating the various resources within the IT industry.
It is a project of the Global Technology Policy Institute that promotes the Open Standards.
Techp.org has been created to support efforts in favor of Digital Freedom and Free Software / Open Source.
The W3C Patent Policy governs the handling of patents in the process of producing Web standards. The goal of this policy is to assure that Recommendations produced under this policy can be implemented on a Royalty-Free (RF) basis.
Open Standards guidelines by Bruce Perens.
Open Standards for Open Source.
They strive to develop and promote a set of standards that will increase compatibility among Linux distributions and enable software applications to run on any compliant system.
International Organization for Standardization
The mission of the ICSR is to advance the theory and practice of standardization on a worldwide basis through innovative research and education.
The GMPG can be explained as an experiment in Metamemetics. A list of GMPG efforts and their current state, e.g.:XFN - XHTML Friends Network and XMDP - XHTML Meta Data Profiles
Further investigation of Breadcrumb Navigation usage. An excellent presentation of breadcrumbs represented in websites such as path, attribute, and location.