RE: [odf-adoption] RE: Invitation: ODF Virtual plug-fest, F2F event(s) planning

["Jane Harnad" <jane.harnad@oasis-open.org>]

Hello Everyone,

It sounds like some internal discussions still need to take place on this
proposed ODF Virtual plug-fest, so we'll wait for further details from the
committee.  In the meantime, would it be appropriate to re-visit the list I
pulled together of potential event oppportunities for ODF?  Below is another
copy of that list (less those that have past).  Please let me know if you
would like to discuss any of these opportunities or others during your next
meeting on the 10th.  Thanks, Jane

Event List:

The OpenOffice.org Annual Conference (OOoCon) TBD Last year's site:
http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2008/index.html

GOSCON 2009
TBA
http://goscon.org/

Enterprise Data World
5-9 April 2009
Tampa, Florida
http://edw2009.wilshireconferences.com/

International ICT Expo 2009
13-16 April 2009
Hong Kong
http://ictexpo.hktdc.com/fair_dtl/detail.htm

infotec 2009
13-15 April 2009
Omaha, NE
http://www.infotec.org/sessions.aspx

*****Technical Communication Summit, the annual conference of the Society
for Technical Communication -- this is the event I already sent for your
review....any additional comments?
3-6 May 2009
Atlanta, GA
http://conference.stc.org/

Gilbane Conference San Francisco
2-4 June 2009
San Francisco, CA
http://gilbanesf.com/

Berlin Open 2009
22-23 June 2009
Berlin, Germany]
http://www.berlin-open.org/programm.html

The Summer XML 2009 Conference on the Extensible Markup Language for Users,
Managers, and Interested Parties July 27-28 2009 Raleigh, NC
http://www.aboveandbeyondlearning.com/xmlconference.html

XML Conference 2009
October 5-8 2009
Arlington, VA
(no website yet)

Documentation and Training East
October 27 - October 30, 2009
Waltham, MA
www.doctrain.com/east/

TCWorld Conference 2009:
4-6 November 2009
Wiesbaden, Germany
http://www.tekom.de/index_neu.jsp?

Gilbane Conference Boston
2-4 December 2009
Boston, MA
http://gilbaneboston.com/ 




-----Original Message-----
From: Carol Geyer [mailto:carol.geyer@oasis-open.org] 
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 10:54 AM
To: 'Jane Harnad'; donald_harbison@us.ibm.com
Cc: odf-adoption@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [odf-adoption] RE: Invitation: ODF Virtual plug-fest, F2F
event(s) planning 

Me too.

Are there any candidate events in addition to the OpenOffice.org Conference
that we should research prior to the call?

--Carol

-----Original Message-----
From: Jane Harnad [mailto:jane.harnad@oasis-open.org]
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 10:38 AM
To: donald_harbison@us.ibm.com; 'Carol Geyer'
Cc: odf-adoption@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [odf-adoption] RE: Invitation: ODF Virtual plug-fest, F2F event(s)
planning 

Hello Don -- I would be happy to join the call.  Regards, Jane
 

________________________________

From: donald_harbison@us.ibm.com [mailto:donald_harbison@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 10:38 AM
To: Jane Harnad; Carol Geyer
Cc: odf-adoption@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Invitation: ODF Virtual plug-fest, F2F event(s) planning 


Jane and Carol, 

Members of the ODF Adoption and ODF Interoperability and Conformance TCs
have been chatting back and forth regarding the need for organized
plug-fests to work on various aspects of ODF interop. We think the Adoption
TC can help the OIC TC in this regard by organizing and managing the 'event'
using OASIS tools and so forth. Nobody is advocating travel and a
face-to-face style event at this stage due to the recession, but we may want
to look down the calendar and seek an opportunity as we have done in the
past within another major event; e.g. OpenOffice.org Conference. 

The concensus opinion is to present the program as an official OASIS
interoperability event, if possible, and with the appropriate level of
communications support. 

We cordially invite you both to join us on our TC call scheduled for
Tuesday, March 10th at 10:00 a.m. EST. Can you please confirm that you will
be able to? 

Here's the conf number: 

ODF Adoption TC Coordination 
Dial in Phone Numbers:   
Toll free in the United States   1-866-907-1016 {full details below} 
Participant passcode: 229008   

Best 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