RE: [odf-adoption] Invitation: ODF Virtual plug-fest, F2F event(s) planning

["Hanssens Bart" <Bart.Hanssens@fedict.be>]

Title: RE: [odf-adoption] Invitation: ODF Virtual plug-fest, F2F event(s) planning

Hi Don,


uhm, small correction, as I just mailed to Jane and Carol, before and
during the last OIC call some valid concerns have been raised (especially
"vendor shoot-out" and the OIC still having to work on more test cases,
and also a bit on what participants we'd like to have etc)

So we agreed upon discussing this further on the OIC mailing list first,
before organizing such an event (if any)
(see also the meeting minutes, item 3.2,
 http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/oic/200902/msg00101.html)

Of course, I'm happy to discuss / brainstorm on the *possibility* of
organizing this type of events in the future.
But as for now, we don't have consensus on this topic in the OIC itself.


Best regards

Bart
-----Original Message-----
From: donald_harbison@us.ibm.com [mailto:donald_harbison@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Thu 2/26/2009 4:37 PM
To: Jane Harnad; Carol Geyer
Cc: odf-adoption@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [odf-adoption] Invitation: ODF Virtual plug-fest, F2F event(s) planning

Jane and Carol,

Members of the ODF Adoption and ODF Interoperability and Conformance TCs
have been chatting back and forth regarding the need for organized
plug-fests to work on various aspects of ODF interop. We think the
Adoption TC can help the OIC TC in this regard by organizing and managing
the 'event' using OASIS tools and so forth. Nobody is advocating travel
and a face-to-face style event at this stage due to the recession, but we
may want to look down the calendar and seek an opportunity as we have done
in the past within another major event; e.g. OpenOffice.org Conference.

The concensus opinion is to present the program as an official OASIS
interoperability event, if possible, and with the appropriate level of
communications support.

We cordially invite you both to join us on our TC call scheduled for
Tuesday, March 10th at 10:00 a.m. EST. Can you please confirm that you
will be able to?

Here's the conf number:

ODF Adoption TC Coordination
Dial in Phone Numbers:  
Toll free in the United States   1-866-907-1016 {full details below}
Participant passcode: 229008  

Best regards,

/don

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