ODF interop event in June, The Hague (NL)

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

Dear members,


Today I've received this (preliminary) invitation from NLNet on an ODF
interop event in The Hague (NL), organized by the Dutch government and
OpenDoc Society (and co-organized by OASIS)


Best regards,

Bart



"
ODF interoperability event
Royal Library, The Hague
June 15/16 2009

The first of a series of events that will bring together implementors
of OASIS OpenDocument Format/ISO 26300 to unilaterally test and discuss
implementation issues of ODF with each other. All ODF implementors are
invited to participate in this event on behalf of the Dutch government
and OpenDoc Society.

The aim is to provide a low-level hands-on interoperability testing
environment in which vendors and community members can fine tune the
interoperability capabilities of their ODF implementations and make
test cases, recommendations and create best practices for implementors.
The ultimate goals is to achieve full seamless interoperability for the
entire feature set of ODF across all suppliers, platforms and supported
technologies.

The workshop is meant for people who write and architect the code to
handle the actual ODF in applications - desktop editors and viewers,
online apps, mobile, etc. Participants should represent every major
teams behind the various competing ODF products, their direct
(technical) management and community leaders, as well as the members of
the ODF OIC committee.

This event will be organised by the Dutch government programme
Netherlands in Open Connection and OpenDoc Society. Associated
organisers are the ODF European Group, and OASIS.

** Travel arrangements

Participants are responsible for their own flights, hotels and meals.
Workshop reception/social event are sponsored by Dutch government and
OpenDoc Society. Open source implementors can apply for funding to fly
in.

** Tentative schedule Day I

9.30 Opening by Ineke Schop, Netherlands in Open Connection
~     "ODF within the government: a clear business case"
9.45 Introduction by Bert Bakker, chairman of OpenDoc Society
~     "ODF Maturity in a multi-vendor paradigm"
10.00 Sander Marchechal, lead developer Officeshots.org
~      "Setting the stage for interoperability testing"
~      Officeshots.org offers a rendering farm for ODF applications
10.15 Jean-Marie Gouarne (tbc)
~      "ODF test documents: experiences from ODF2XLIFF"
10.30 Bart Hanssens
~      "Interoperability and Conformance testing within OASIS OIC"

10.45 Break

11.00 - 12.00 Debate: How do we converge on handling historical
~              application formats
~              Consistent mapping of historical file formats on ODF
~              Led by Patrick Durusau (tbc)

12.00 - 13.30 Lunch

13.30 - 17.00 Start of parallel sessions in tracks:

~              - Text documents
~              - Spread sheets
~              - Presentations

N.B. Each of the tracks will deal with topics specific to those
application areas such as:

~              - Character and paragraph styling
~              - Lists
~              - Footnotes, end-notes and annotations
~              - Field data
~              - Tables
~              - Graphics and embedded objects
~              - Handling Embedded Scripting
~              - Pagination
~              - Maintaining foreign elements in documents
~              - ODF <> HTML

18.30-20.30 Workshop dinner, offered by the Dutch government.

Speech by mr. Frank Heemskerk, minister of Foreign Economic Affair (tbc)

** Tentative schedule Day II:

9.30 Marino Marcich:
~      "The challenge of seamless interoperability"
9.45 Opening by Rob Weir.
~      "From ODF pre-1.2 to ODF 1.2"
10.10 Michael Brauer
~     "ODF Next - what's on the shopping list"
10.35 Break
11.45-12.00 Continued parallel sessions

12.00 Lunch

13.30-16.00 Continued parallel sessions

16.00 Wrapup panel
~      "How do we cooperate on the future of interop?"
~       From interop workshops to perpetual plugfests

17.00 Closing reception
"