Re: [odf-adoption] RE: need confirmation on ODF Camp

["Charles-H. Schulz" <charles-h.schulz@arsaperta.com>]

Hi,

here are some of my thoughts about this. I think that we need to make
sure that we avoid some "fautes de gout" by promoting products other
than OOo. Yet at the same time, we should show the breadth of
applications using ODF. This is why I'd advocate for an event that
positions itself in two ways: the first one being purely ODF, and at the
same time having specific conferences about OOo and ODF, including the
OOo community.

Hope this helps,

Charles.


Dee Schur a écrit :
> Hi Louis,
> We did discuss your email on the ODF Adoption call this morning and I was
> hoping that you would have joined the call.
> It was mentioned that it may be difficult to keep attendees with split
> session (19 and 21 of September) on ODF. I'm not certain that this is a
> problem. 
> In terms of the ODF camp, how many competing tracks will occur
> simultaneously? Is this a speaker/presentation format? If so, how many
> speakers? Or is it an interactive learning event with tutorials and clinics?
> Is this a plug-fest? Who will select the presenters, are you on the
> programme committee? 
> If we do a showcase/demo, I would like to approach the participating vendors
> about sponsorship after I understand the openoffice.org conference funding
> model. But OOoCon may not be in favor of vendors demoing their products? A
> traditional OASIS InterOp would require a scenario that solves a business
> problem and solution, they are non-promotional in nature but members report
> that the InterOps drive business to their company. Of course, open-source
> participation would also be encouraged. I also wanted to pursue the InterOp
> because we are trying to increase membership in the Adoption TC and the
> possibility of participating in this event would encourage these potential
> new members to join the Adoption TC.
> Do we have any idea of number and type of attendees? It is my understanding
> that this event is heavily attended by public sector folks or is it mostly
> developers?
> I have many more questions, maybe we should plan another call since it
> sounds like you are under the gun.
> Thanks!
> Dee
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Louis Suarez-Potts [mailto:luispo@mac.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 2:28 PM
> To: odf-adoption@lists.oasis-open.org
> Cc: John McCreesh; Dee Schur; Dieter Loeschky
> Subject: need confirmation on ODF Camp
>
> Hi
> A couple of days ago I sent a note to this list, cc'ing Dee Schur and  
> several others. [0].
>
> No response so far. That's unfortunate. We need to decide on the  
> logistics of the event, and soon.
>
> Here is the idea:
>
> Wednesday have a 1/2 or even full day "camp" that would work on  
> "normalizing" interoperability among ODF implementations.
>
> Options:
>
> ** It could run in parallel to the regular scheduled talks, as a stream.
>
> Or,
>
> ** it would be one of the streams
>
> The latter option would necessary crowd out other papers.
>
>
> Opinions?
>
>   My own preference would be to have a parallel track.
>
>
> Please respond as soon as you can.
>
> best
> Louis
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-- 
Charles-H. Schulz,
Associé / Associate
Ars Aperta.