Draft OOoCon Proposal, version 0.3

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

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

We should probably add titles and job
titles, to our names, so please add these, following my example.

I haven't heard anything definite concerning
Microsoft.  Obviously, we have some flexibility and adding a person
to the panel, even an hour before the session should not be difficult.
 But if we want to get their name in the program, now is the time
to do it.

With that in mind, is there any way
we can narrow down who from Sun will be participating?  Or do we want
to list both Malte and Dieter?

-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.

Panelists:

Mr. Robert Weir, Software Architect,
IBM, Co-Chair of OASIS ODF TC
Bart Hanssens, FEDICT
Florian Reuter, Novell
Malte Timmermann or Dieter Löschky,
Sun
Jeremy Allison, Google

Panel Moderator:  (Aslam Raffee,
South Africa Department of Science & Technology)

Target Audience: General, Users, Developers,
Decision Makers

Proposed Track: OpenDocument Format

Preferred Session type: Panel Discussion

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