Re: [office] Introduction

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Chris,

Thanks for the introduction and the comments!

Your concerns were echoed in some of the National Body comments on the 
ODF submission to ISO. (Although without the detail you supplied, which 
is very helpful.)

How many of those can be handled as part of the ballot resolution 
meeting and which ones will need to be in a revision (which I assume 
will also go to ISO) is under discussion.

Looking forward to working with you on ODF!

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick

Chris Nokleberg wrote:

>Hi everyone,
>
>I've been meaning to introduce myself for a while. I recently joined the
>TC as a representative Tonic Systems:
>  http://tonicsystems.com/
>
>We primarily provide enterprise developer tools for creating and
>processing PowerPoint documents server-side. We also recently released a
>free cross-platform PowerPoint viewer (written in Java). Our knowledge
>of the PowerPoint file format is exclusively through reverse
>engineering, so the value of open formats is pretty clear to me :-)
>
>We are interested in adding support for OpenDocument formats to our
>products, in particular:
>
>- conversion between OpenDocument and PowerPoint 97-2007
>- rendering of OpenDocument presentations
>
>I have personally done significant work on the latter, but was stymied
>by some ambiguities, underspecification, and interoperability issues in
>the OpenDocument spec, primarily in the drawing portion. I posted most
>of the issues to the opendocument-users list, but to date they have not
>received much attention, so we decided that taking an active role in the
>technical committee might be helpful.
>
>For reference, here are links to the threads:
>http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/opendocument-users/200601/msg00003.html
>http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/opendocument-users/200601/msg00007.html
>http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/opendocument-users/200601/msg00008.html
>http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/opendocument-users/200601/msg00009.html
>http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/opendocument-users/200601/msg00010.html
>http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/opendocument-users/200601/msg00013.html
>http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/opendocument-users/200601/msg00014.html
>http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/opendocument-users/200601/msg00015.html
>http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/opendocument-users/200601/msg00016.html
>
>David Wheeler was also kind enough to forward my report on the
>inconsistent specification of units to this list:
>http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200602/msg00075.html
>
>I'd appreciate some feedback, if not on the issues themselves then on
>how best to proceed with getting them resolved.
>
>Thanks,
>Chris
>
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Patrick Durusau
Patrick@Durusau.net
Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model
Member, Text Encoding Initiative Board of Directors, 2003-2005

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