Re: [odf-adoption] Notes from Special Meeting re. OpenOffice.org Conference

["Zaheda Bhorat" <zaheda@google.com>]

Don,

Thanks for the notes. I addition I want to confirm that Peter Junge informed me that we have a room reserved all day thursday November 6 for the ODF Camp/Workshop. The formula for the overall event will be the same as that for OOoCON 2007 in  Barcelona.

Rob - Jeremy has agreed to participate on the interoperability panel representing Google and will follow up directly with you this week.

Best
Zaheda

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 8:32 AM, <donald_harbison@us.ibm.com> wrote:

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
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