+Title: Officeshots taking shape
+Tags: english, standard
+Date: 2010-06-13 11:35
+
+<p>For those of us caring about document exchange and
+interoperability, <a href="http://www.officeshots.org/">OfficeShots</a>
+is a great service. It is to ODF documents what
+<a href="http://browsershots.org/">BrowserShots</a> is for web
+pages.</p>
+
+<p>A while back, I was contacted by Knut Yrvin at the part of Nokia
+that used to be Trolltech, who wanted to help the OfficeShots project
+and wondered if the University of Oslo where I work would be
+interested in supporting the OfficeShots project. I helped him to
+navigate his request to the right people at work, and his request was
+answered with a spot in the machine room with power and network
+connected, and Knut arranged funding for a machine to fill the spot.
+The machine is administrated by the OfficeShots people, so I do not
+have daily contact with its progress, and thus from time to time check
+back to see how the project is doing.</p>
+
+<p>Today I had a look, and was happy to see that the Dell box in our
+machine room now is the host for several virtual machines running as
+OfficeShots factories, and the project is able to render ODF documents
+in 17 different document processing implementation on Linux and
+Windows. This is great.</p>