Re: [odf-adoption] need confirmation on ODF Camp

[donald_harbison@us.ibm.com]

Erwin,

IBM technical staff will be participating
at OO.o CON...with particular focus on the ODF Camp. The primary objective
we propose to pursue is to have technically qualified individual interact
with their code, work on identifying normative patterns for ODF conformance,
and basically roll up their sleeves to achieve some progress resolving
interop issues between ODF implementations: e.g. OpenOffice, KOffice, Google
Docs & Spreadsheets, IBM Lotus Productivity Tools, ABIword, Zoho, etc.

I believe Zaheda shares this objective
as well. 

Best regards,

Don Harbison
Program Director, IBM ODF Initiative
Business & Technical Strategy
IBM Software Group
tel:1-978-399-7018
Mobile: +1-978-761-0116
email: donald_harbison@us.ibm.com



Erwin.Tenhumberg@Sun.COM wrote on 06/05/2007 04:31:39
PM:

> John McCreesh wrote:
> > If we hold the ODF Camp on the Wednesday, it would probably be
> > diplomatic to keep it to an afternoon-only session to avoid clashing
> > with the OOoCon plenary sessions / keynotes on Wednesday morning.
> > 
> > May I propose instead that we consider holding the ODF Camp as
an all
> > day parallel session on Thursday 20th. We now have all the proposals
for
> > papers in for OOoConf, and the ODF/XML papers fit into two streams,
one
> > on Wednesday afternoon and the other all day Friday.
> > 
> > That would give people attending the ODF Camp a number of options:
> > 
> > (optionally) turn up on Wednesday morning for the OOoCon keynotes
> > (optionally) turn up on Wednesday afternoon for the OOoCon ODF/XML
> > stream attend the ODF Camp on Thursday
> > (optionally) stay on for the OOoCon ODF/XML stream on Friday
> > 
> > Comments please?
> 
> My understanding is that the ODF camp/workshop will be an event mainly
> for the people implementing ODF or working on the ODF spec, i.e. a
> semi-open event for people who actively want to discuss and work on
> ODF related issues like interoperability and programmability.
> 
> The camp/workshop would (almost) not consist of slide presentations,
> but on lively discussions and brainstorming. As a consequence, the
> camp would be very independent of the conference except that it
> leverages the fact that many key ODF people are present in
> Barcelona anyway. People from other ODF implementations like
> KOffice and Google Docs & Spreadsheets would be invited to the
> camp/workshop as well.
> 
> In addition, there is the XML/ODF track like at previous
> OpenOffice.org conferences. This is the event for which the session
> proposals would be used.
> 
> Since the people attending the workshop will also be interested
> in the ODF/XML related sessions, I think it makes a lot of sense to
> have the camp/workshop on Thursday so that they can make the best
> use of their time.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Erwin
>