RE: [oic] virtual ODF interop fest ?

["Dennis E. Hamilton" <dennis.hamilton@acm.org>]

This is an intriguing discussion.

I like the permanent floating plugfest idea.  We can set it to music.  Oh,
right, "Guys and Dolls."

I'm not sure how we get it to work with OASIS rules and registration
requirements.  Maybe we could use the under-used oic-comment list or use the
OpenDocument.xml.org forum too.  (Baffled and will stop speculating ... .)

Exciting.

 - Dennis

PS: As far as I have been able to tell, anyone can use the oic Chat.  It
would also be great if easy public participation were available.  


-----Original Message-----
From: robert_weir@us.ibm.com [mailto:robert_weir@us.ibm.com] 
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/oic/200902/msg00055.html
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 13:14
To: oic@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [oic] virtual ODF interop fest ?

Interesting idea.  You could also make it a "permanent plugfest" if the 
OIC TC could come up with a single good interop test document each week or 
every other week.  Announce it to the mailing list (and we could have 
OASIS create a new mailing list for this) and everyone works on that test 
document for that week (or two week period).  Maybe we take turns 
proposing a test document.  Since the pace is slower, communications via 
the mailing list would be fine.  You wouldn't need a chat service.

This approach would be require less effort I think than coordinating a 
24-hour global effort. 

-Rob

"Hanssens Bart" <Bart.Hanssens@fedict.be> wrote on 02/19/2009 03:00:35 PM:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/oic/200902/msg00052.html
> 
> 
> Maybe I'm going way to fast here, but I'd like to have your opinion 
> on this idea, since materializing it would require a considerable 
> effort and a few weeks (or months) time.
> 
> Inspired by the XAdES plugfests and open source project bugfests, 
> I'm dreaming of organizing regular ODF interop fests :-)
> 
> Given the current state of the economy, global warming etc, 
> timezones, jet lag etc... a virtual workshop would be more feasible
> For example, a 24h interop run every 6 months, lead by OIC members 
> but with participants from all interested parties (both
> OASIS and non-OASIS members). Say, first week of May, and the next 
> one in October / November.
> 
> Vendors / organizations could even organize local workshops or 
> integrate this into their (product or other) events, scaling up the 
> number of participants. The interop run could be started in, say, 
> Asia, passing the bucket to the Middle-East after business hours and
> so on (people are free to participate as long as they want: one 
> hour, 4 hours, ... whatever).
> Afterwards, there's some cleaning up and summarizing to do.
> 
> 
> This would require
> 
> - a chat service (plain old IRC sounds good)
> - a website where people can sign up (perhaps with their geo-
> coordinates, so we can create a googlemap or something similar)
> - a publicly available SVN server / mailing list, so that non-OASIS 
> members can participate (perhaps a sourceforge project ?)
> - at least one test case that can be passed on
> As a gimmick, we could for instance start an ODF cookbook: fire up 
> your favorite editor, add a page with your favorite recipe (this 
> might includ bulleted lists, an image, some headings, ToC etc). This
> can be sent to the next tester, using another editor and create 
> another version of the document and so on.
> - in addition, we could invite people to bring a few of their own 
documents
> (IIRC, Rob already kindly offered his expertise on the requirements 
> of such test cases, after the work on the "state of interop" draft)
> - participants willing to send in their final documents / bug 
> reports to the OIC-comment list
> - perhaps a waiver from vendors (some EULA's might prevent this kind
> of activity, but IANAL :-)
> - a lot of publicity :-)
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Bart


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