Re: [odf-adoption] Draft OOoCon Proposal

[Aslam Raffee <aslam.raffee@dst.gov.za>]

Hi Don,

I would like to participate with the team on the panel, I will start 
making plans

Regards,
Aslam

donald_harbison@us.ibm.com wrote:
>
> Rob,
>
> This is a good start. For the panel moderator, I think a someone who 
> does not have a vendor affiliation will be best and most objective. 
> Since government ICT leaders are often on the leading edge of dealing 
> with the interoperability issues, either intra-operability between ODF 
> implementations or the gorilla  use case of interoperability with 
> MS-Office.  
>
> We have both Bart and Aslam on the ODF Adoption TC. If folks agree 
> with my premise above, I suggest we ask one of them to moderate the 
> panel.
>
> I do not know if Aslam is planning on making a submission or if he or 
> other members of Science & Technology in South Africa will be able to 
> travel to Beijing.
>
> Aslam, do you want to participate with the team on this panel? Do you 
> plan on travelling to Beijing to participate in the OpenOffice.org 
> conference?
>
> Regards,
>
> /don
>
>
> Don Harbison
> Program Director, IBM ODF Initiative
> Business & Technical Strategy
> IBM Software Group
> tel:1-978-399-7018
> Mobile: +1-978-761-0116
> email: donald_harbison@us.ibm.com
>
>
>
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> From: 	robert_weir@us.ibm.com
> To: 	odf-adoption@lists.oasis-open.org
> Date: 	07/15/2008 02:00 PM
> Subject: 	[odf-adoption] Draft OOoCon Proposal
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> Call for Papers is here: 
>  _http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2008/cfp/_
>
> The submission is via an online form.  
>
> Here is a draft of our proposed submission.  Note that the detail 
> level is rather thin.  We could leave it at this level, or expand each 
> topic into a short paragraph.  But even if we leave it brief, I think 
> we need to beef it up a little.
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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 OASIS ODF Adoption TC will examine ODF interoperability from 
> several perspectives, including the view from a government deployment 
> in Belgium, an introduction to a new interoperability initiative in 
> OASIS and reports on other interoperability initiatives from vendors 
> working with ODF.
>
> Participants:
>
> Rob Weir, IBM
> Bart Hanssens, FEDICT
> Florian Reuter, Novell
> ?????, Sun
> ?????, Google
> ?????, Microsoft
>
> Panel Moderator:  ?????
>
> Target Audience: General, User, Developer
>
> Proposed Track: OpenDocument Format
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> Preferred Session type: Panel Discussion
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> Also, for each participant they will want a short bio, a URL to your 
> blog or home page, title, company. email address, postal address, 
> contact phone number, whether you wish to be considered for a bursary, 
> and reason for requesting a bursary.
>
> However, the form does not really accommodate a multi-person 
> submission and it tries to mix paper submission, bursaries and 
> registration into one form.  So we will probably need to contact the 
> organizers and submit some of this additional information via email.
>
>
> -Rob
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