Draft OOoCon Proposal, version 0.2

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

Here is an updated draft, including
comments received so far.

Still waiting for word from Michael
on whether Sun would like to contribute a short presentation to this session
and/or provide someone to sit on the panel.  Maybe Eduardo?

Alan, maybe this is complete enough
to pass on to Microsoft?  Although we don't have the details yet,
you might mention that we'll also be having a full-day, intense, hands-on
interoperability workshop at the conference, so they would not be making
the trip only for the discussion panel.

Note that there does not need to be
a 1-to-1 correspondence between presenters and panelists.  Although
I'd expect all presenters to be panelists, we may have some panelists who
are not presenting.  And it is possible for the moderator as well
to give a short presentation.  In fact, a nice form for such events
would be for the moderator to give an introductory presentation that gives
an outline of what will follow.

-Rob

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Title of your Paper:   ODF Interoperability:
Perspectives

Session description:

Through a series of short presentations
and a panel discussion, members of the OASIS ODF TC and OASIS ODF Adoption
TC will host a discussion of ODF interoperability from several perspectives,
including the view from a government deployment in Belgium (using OpenOffice.org
and MS-Office with  plugins), an introduction to the new ODF interoperability
initiative in OASIS and reports on other interoperability initiatives from
major vendors and service providers working with and committed to ODF.

Participants:

Rob Weir, IBM
Bart Hanssens, FEDICT
Florian Reuter, Novell
?????, Sun
Jeremy Allison, Google
?????, Microsoft

Panel Moderator:  (Bart Hanssens
or Alsam Raffee ???)

Target Audience: General, Users, Developers,
Decision Makers

Proposed Track: OpenDocument Format

Preferred Session type: Panel Discussion

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