OASIS Symposium strawman proposals

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

A bit overdue, but here is my first
stab at refining these two session abstracts.  Note that although
I am proposing several co-speakers I have in no case confirmed with them
on their attendance.  This is just my wish list based on who I know,
and what I know they know.   Let's start by seeing if these fit well
with the other two topics Don is working on.  If combined this starts
to look like a significant ODF "happening" then travel approvals
will be easier to secure.

Also, I'm trying to have overlap as
much as possible in presenters on these topics in hopes of better justifying
travel expenses.

-Rob


ODF Programmability (60 minute panel
of short presentations)

As documents move from proprietary formats
to open, extensible formats, the opportunities for programmatic creation,
manipulation and information extraction are greatly enhanced.  In
this session we will examine thematic modes of ODF document processing
as well as four different proposed tool sets for enabling this type of
programming.

Rob Weir/IBM on "An ODF Toolkit"
Florian Reuter/Novel on "The ODF
InfoSet"
Michael Brauer/Sun  on "The
OpenOffice.org UNO API"
Waldo Bastian/Intel on "The KOffice
Kross API"


ODF Interoperability (60 minute panel
of short presentations)

Interoperability is irreducibly complex.
 Via a series of short presentations we will examine some of the more
important dimensions of ODF interoperability and evaluate what is working
well today, and what areas need more attention.

Michael Brauer/Sun or Louis Suarez-Potts
on "How OpenOffice.org tests compliance with the ODF standard"
 (I'm assuming there is something interesting to be said here)
Florian Reuter/Novel on "An ODF
Plugin for Microsoft Office"
Lotzi Bölöni/University of Central Florida,
or Waldo Bastian/Intel on "An ODF Test Suite"
Rob Weir/IBM  or J. David Eisenberg
on "Internal Interoperability, ODF and XForms, SVG and MathML"