Notes from Special Meeting re. OpenOffice.org Conference

[donald_harbison@us.ibm.com]

All,

As I promised, here's a short summary
of our discussion today.

Attendees: Meredith Whitaker, Charles
Schulz, Alan Clark, Rob Weir, Bart Hanssens, Don Harbison, Michael Brauer
and Louis Suarez-Potts.

Note: This was not an official OASIS
ODF Adoption TC call, therefore I have not recorded the attendance.

The purpose of the call was to discuss
ideas for submission as proposals for presentations to the OpenOffice.org
conference organizers. In addition, we spent about half the time discussing
the additional topic of the ODF Workshop, a dedicated full day event to
be held as a satellite to the main conference.

Rob led the discussion on his proposal
for a 90 or 120 minute session on the topic of ODF interoperability in
the main conference within the ODF track. He will be drafting the proposal
for review and comment by the ODF Adoption TC members. He explained that
the idea was to invite speakers representing vendors of ODF implementations;
e.g. Sun, IBM, Novell, Google, etc., to deliver a short 20 minute presentation
describing their implementation of ODF. After each vendor's presentations
are completed a panel discussion will be conducted. 

Separate and contrasting to this session
concept is the ODF Workshop. This will be a dedicated full day event held
in parallel to the main conference in a reserved room. The proposed date
is Thursday, November  6th.  The ODF Adoption TC will develop
the detailed content plan for this workshop. Don agreed to confirm and
clarify the reservation for the workshop with Peter Junge of Red Flag.

Don described a proposal for an ODF
Accessibility panel discussion. He will submit this proposal for consideration.

Bart will submit a proposal that will
focus on the adoption and deployment of OpenOffice within the Belgium FEDICT
community and the use of Sun MS-Office plug-in.

Michael Brauer said that Svante Schubert
will be submitting proposals for talks on ODF Metadata, and ODF Toolkit.

Alan will work with Rob and bring forward
Florian Reuter's proposal for a talk on ODF Interoperability which will
focus more on the Novell effort to improve interoperability of OpenOffice
and MS-Office.

Don will check with Aslam Raffee to
learn if he is planning to submit a proposal or not.

Please amend this summary if needed.

Regards,

/don


Don Harbison
Program Director, IBM ODF Initiative
Business & Technical Strategy
IBM Software Group
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