Re: [odf-adoption] Recap of ODF Camp for OASIS News

["Peter Vandenabeele" <peter@vandenabeele.com>]

On 10/2/07, Carol Geyer <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org> wrote:
> Would you or someone else from the TC post this ODF Camp recap on OpenDocument
> XML.org?
>
> Should we create a Forum on opendocument.xml.org to discuss the
> interoperability issues that were identified at ODF Camp? We have a Forum for
> "Positioning, Benefits, Compatibility, and Interoperability"
> http://opendocument.xml.org/positioning-forum -- but that seems a bit broad.

I suggest one of the longer standing members takes care of this ... At least it
would need to be reviewed by another person that was at the meeting. I may
have forgotten an important aspect ...

Peter

>   ODF Camp was held parallel to the OpenOffice.org 2007 conference in
>   Barcelona on 20 September 2007 with about 30 participants. Interoperability
>   of ODF documents was tested with documents generated in
>   StarOffice/OpenOffice.org, IBM Symphony, Google Docs, KOffice,
>   MS Office 2003 + Sun plug-in, MS Office 2003 + odf-converter and
>   SEPT-solutions Mobile Office. Different levels of interoperability problems
>   where discovered (user errors (e.g. using spaces), technical problems
>   (application bugs), interop problems with applications that have a different
>   native format (e.g. frames-in-frames in MS Office), conceptual problems of
>   document representation (e.g. how to represent bi-language documents)).
>   The discussion will be followed-up online by the participants.