Re: [odf-adoption] Inviting Updegrove to speak at OpenDocumentworkshop in San Diego

[Erwin Tenhumberg <Erwin.Tenhumberg@Sun.COM>]

I'm not sure if anybody had replied to this.

I think having Andy Updegrove as a speaker would be great,
but I guess travel funding will be an issue.


Best regards,
Erwin



Carol Geyer wrote:
> Does the TC think there would be an advantage to inviting Andy Updegrove to
> speak at the OpenDocument Workshop following the OASIS Symposium in San Diego?
> It's likely Andy would require travel reimbursement (which we don't have in our
> budget), but if we think he'd be a big draw for attendees, perhaps we should
> approach him and find out if he's interested.
> 
> Please let me know what you think,
> Carol
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: andrew.updegrove@gesmer.com [mailto:andrew.updegrove@gesmer.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 12:00 PM
> Subject: Microsoft's Open Letter to IBM
> 
> Perhaps the most significant news this week in the battle between OOXML and
> ODF was Microsoft's decision to escalate the air wars by firing a shot
> across IBM's bows.  Microsoft delivered the message in the form of an open
> letter "valentine" posted at the Microsoft Interoperability Web page, and
> publicized in simultaneous interviews.  In that letter, Microsoft
> summarizes its position on the importance of OOXML, stresses Microsoft's
> passive role in the adoption by ISO/IEC of ODF, and most forcefully,
> accuses IBM of waging a global, hypocritical campaign to thwart the
> approval of OOXML in JTC 1.
> 
> The action is hardly surprising, and perhaps even overdue. OOXML's first
> few weeks in the ISO process have not gone as well as Microsoft would have
> hoped, with many national bodies filing responses during the initial
> one-month contradictions period.  Microsoft has taken the position that
> many of these comments will prove to be neutral (or even laudatory), rather
> than overwhelmingly negative, but in the not-too distant future the
> comments themselves will become public. If in fact the comments received by
> JTC1 are largely negative, as I have been led to believe, Microsoft will
> need to revert to a Plan B,  such as a conspiracy theory by ODF-compliant
> vendors "to limit customer choice."  It appears that this may be the major
> purpose of the open letter.
> 
> One line in the letter: "The IBM driven effort to force ODF on users
> through public procurement mandates is a further attempt to restrict
> choice," is likely to be setting the stage for a broader message, given the
> recent filing of open format legislation in Texas and Minnesota.  If so,
> this may be the opening shot in a messaging campaign that we will hear long
> after the review of OOXML by ISO/IEC is ended.
> 
> For a more detailed analysis, see:
> http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=2007021507253728
> 
> The open letter may be found here:
> http://www.microsoft.com/interop/letters/choice.mspx
> 
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