RE: [oic] possible interop event (March, NL)

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

Title: RE: [oic] possible interop event (March, NL)

Another possibility would be to organize a 24h virtual plugfest (chat, webinar),
with separate, sliding sessions. Eco-friendly and much cheaper.

For example (local time), roughly speaking:

- 1st session: East-Asia (morning till noon) + West-America (afternoon-evening)
- 2nd session: Europe (morning till noon) + East-Asia (afternoon-evening)
- 3rd session: East-America (morning till noon) + Europe (afternoon-evening)
- 4th session: West-America (morning till noon) + East-Amercia (afternoon-evening)


(+ maybe another session if there are enough participants from Middle-East ?)

Of course, in order to do this, we should have enough test documents :-)


Just my 2 cents,

Bart


-----Original Message-----
From: robert_weir@us.ibm.com [mailto:robert_weir@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Fri 12/19/2008 9:19 PM
To: oic@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [oic] possible interop event (March, NL)

"Hanssens Bart" <Bart.Hanssens@fedict.be> wrote on 12/18/2008 04:09:50 AM:
> my colleagues of the Dutch government are planning to organize an
> event on open standards (and also on open source), on March 5th,
> probably in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
>
> One of the suggestions was to have an ODF interop session, with
> the emphasis on doing some real testing, rather than giving
> presentations (could be a short session, or a whole day, depending
> on the participants and the scenarios)
>
> For practical reasons, this would not be an official OASIS interop
> Demo, but a more informal plugfest with members and non-members.
> Of course, participants would be strongly encouraged to submit
> their results to this TC using the OASIS mailing lists and/or wiki.
>
>
> Anyway, I guess many of the TC members could be interested in this
> event, so the question I raise here is:
>
>
> * would you (or other experts from your company or organization) be
> interested in participating in an ODF interop session during this
> event ?
>

I am interested, of course.  But the hard part, in this economy, is to get
financial approval for international travel.  It was very hard to get
approval to go to Beijing, for example, even though I was leading an
interop workshop and panel discussion.

A full-day or even multi-day program would make the trip more valuable,
compared to a short session.  Of course, having designed exercises for
such events before, I know how difficult that is.  This will be easier
once our TC has created some real test cases to run.

-Rob

>
>
> Feel free to drop me a line, preferably before January 15th.
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Bart

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