Membership in the OpenDocument Format Alliance <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1950375,00.asp">has almost quadrupled</A> over the past month. The Alliance, a coalition of organizations from across the world whose goal is to enable governments to have direct management and greater control over their documents, was launched on March 3 with 36 initial members, but that has now grown to 138 members worldwide. The Alliance is trying to promote and advance the use of the ODF (OpenDocument Format), which it says will allow the exchange of documents to take place without regard to the application or platform in which the document was created--both now and in the future.