Question on the test documents

["Alan Clark" <aclark@novell.com>]

A question from Florian:
 
Florian Reuter wrote: 
Hi,
 
 just a quick question regarding the test documents.
 
 If I have test document where I'm uncertain how the ODF representation will 
 look like is it feasable to send them as PDF only?
 
 Best regards,
 
 ~Florian
 
>>>> Erwin Tenhumberg <Erwin.Tenhumberg@Sun.COM> 08/14/07 11:40 AM >>>
> Logistics
> =========
> 
> Attendees
> ---------
> * Erwin Tenhumberg
> * Rob Weir
> * Dee Schur
> * Charles Schulz
> * Alan Clark
> 
> Quorum
> ------
> No quorum was achieved.
> 
> 
> 
> ODF Camp at OOoCon 2007
> =======================
> 
> Participants
> ------------
> We will invite about 10 companies.
> Different companies might send between one and three developers.
> 
> Various companies and projects have already been contacted, e.g.:
> * Sun
> * IBM
> * Novell
> * KOffice
> * Odendahl SEPT-Solutions
> * Softmaker
> * Google
> 
> Erwin sent a reminder to Odendahl SEPT-Solutions and Softmaker.
> Erwin will remind Google as well.
> 
> 
> Registration
> ------------
> How should registrations for the ODF Camp be handled?
> Should the registration be handled via the OOoCon site?
> 
> The key participants will be directly invited, i.e. the
> people specifying and implementing ODF.
> Thus, a formal registration site might not be necessary,
> but someone will have to keep track of the registrations.
> 
> 
> Test Documents
> --------------
> We need a few test documents for identifying and discussing
> interoperability issues.
> 
> Everybody can help identify test documents.
> The test documents should be convertible to PDF, so that people
> can re-implement the documents with their own ODF implementations.
> The re-implemented and shared test documents could be named like
> 
>     document1_novell.odt
>     document1_sun.odt
>     document1_ibm.odt
>     document1_koffice.odt
> 
> In total it probably would be just three 1-page documents.
> The participants will probably spend an hour per document, at most.
> The end and the progress of the event will most likely be determined
> by the actual participants of the event.
> 
> We need very simple and more complex documents.
> The complexity should progress during the day, i.e. start with the
> very simple documents first and end with the more complex ones.
> Test documents should reflect both, typical use cases and special cases.
> 
> Real ODF deployers/users could provide example/test documents.
> The CleverAge documents might be useful as well.
> 
> How to demo Mobile Office on a large screen?
> Can a Symbian simulator be used on a laptop?
> Everybody should be able to look at the same thing at the same time.
> Erwin will investigate this.
> 
> 
> Moderation
> ----------
> In order to avoid "rat-hole discussions" and unproductive arguments
> some kind of charter as well as a moderator will be needed for the event.
> Optimally the moderator should be someone, who is not directly involved
> in specifying or implementing ODF, i.e. someone who is somewhat neutral.
> John McCreesh might be candidate.
> Charles will check with John.