ODF Interoperability Workshop Agenda for Thursday Nov 6th (Final)

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

Here is the agenda I was able to put together.  I've switched some things 
around due to two fortunate happenings:

1)We will be able to have Cheng Lin, from RedOffice speak to us on UOF/ODF 
translation and interoperability.

2)Rajiv Shah was generous enough to allow us access, during the workshop, 
to the ODF documents he used in his study "Lost in Translation".  So I am 
putting some time in the workshop for us to work with these documents.

One other change:

3) Instead of presuming that we'll end the day with a complex Chinese 
document, as early planned, I'd like to keep this time open, in case a 
better idea emerges.  I recall last year in Barcelona, we ran out of a 
time without an opportunity to have several important discussions.  We can 
always test things back home.  Let's make the best use of the workshop 
time to have the discussions and learning that can only happen in this 
kind of environment.

One advantage of these changes is that no pre-work or home work is 
required.  (But maybe you want to read the "Lost in Translation" paper if 
you have not already done so.)

 ==== What to bring with you to the workshop ====

You will be able to participate most fully if you come to the workshop 
with a laptop running an ODF word processor and an ODF spreadsheet 
application.  Most of the segments will be dealing with features which are 
common across ODF 1.0, ODF 1.1 and ODF 1.2.

If more than one person is representing a single application, then please 
try to bring a mix of operating systems, so we have a greater mix.  So, if 
we have multiple OpenOffice people (and I'm certain we will), let's see it 
on Linux, on Windows, on the Mac, etc. 

For bonus hacker points, bring a build environment for your application, 
so you can instantly fix any bugs found.  If I recall, we saw David Faure 
do that last year with KOffice. 

If you are not representing an ODF vendor or open source application, you 
are still welcome to attend.  You can watch, certainly.  But maybe you 
want to "adopt" an implementation and work through the exercises with it? 
Be creative!  Do the exercises on a screen reader interface to Symphony. 
Do them on a Symbian phone with an ODF viewer. All are different types of 
interoperability.


=== The Agenda ===


The agenda will be as follows:
 
 09:00 - 09:15 -- Introductions, Review of the Agenda (Rob Weir)
 
 09:15 - 09:45 -- Keynote Presentation: The State of ODF Interoperability 
(Bart Hanssens)

 9:45 - 10:00 -- Short review of the paper "Lost in Translation: 
Interoperability Issues for Open Standards(
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1201708) by Shah and Kesan (Rob Weir)
 
 10:00 - 10:45 -- Group experimentation using the ODF documents used by 
Shah and Kesan in their study
 
 10:45 - 11:15 -- Break
 
 11:15 - 12:00 --  Continuation of group experimentation
 
 12:00 - 13:00 -- Lunch Break
 
 13:00 - 13:30 -- Presentation and Discussion: Considerations on 
Interoperability of ODF 1.2 Metadata (Svante Schubert)

 13:30 - 14:00 -- Presentation on ODF/UOF Translation and Interoperability 
(Cheng Lin)
 
 14:00 - 14:45 -- Short presentation on OpenFormula and group exercise
 
 14:45 - 15:15 -- Break
 
 15:15 - 17:15 -- Unstructured time.  At first we were going to fill the 
day solid with presentations and activities, with, with every minute 
dedicated to some productive task pre-determined by the organizers.  But 
on further reflection, we think the workshop participants, collectively, 
may find better use for this slot than than organizers could predict.  So 
consider this an opportunity for free discussion related to 
interoperability, to brainstorm on approaches and techniques, to give a 
mini-presentation on a related topic of interest, to revisit a topic 
discussed earlier in the day, to present a challenging test document for 
the workshop participants to try, or other similar activities.  If no one 
has any better ideas, the fallback plan would be to spend two hours 
working on the interoperability of a complex Chinese HR form. 
 

 17:15 - 18:00 -- Closing Remarks, Summary of work remaining to be done.