Re: [oic] possible interop event (March, NL)

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

"Hanssens Bart" <Bart.Hanssens@fedict.be> wrote on 12/18/2008 04:09:50 AM:
> my colleagues of the Dutch government are planning to organize an
> event on open standards (and also on open source), on March 5th,
> probably in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
> 
> One of the suggestions was to have an ODF interop session, with
> the emphasis on doing some real testing, rather than giving
> presentations (could be a short session, or a whole day, depending
> on the participants and the scenarios)
> 
> For practical reasons, this would not be an official OASIS interop
> Demo, but a more informal plugfest with members and non-members.
> Of course, participants would be strongly encouraged to submit
> their results to this TC using the OASIS mailing lists and/or wiki.
> 
> 
> Anyway, I guess many of the TC members could be interested in this
> event, so the question I raise here is:
> 
> 
> * would you (or other experts from your company or organization) be
> interested in participating in an ODF interop session during this
> event ?
> 

I am interested, of course.  But the hard part, in this economy, is to get 
financial approval for international travel.  It was very hard to get 
approval to go to Beijing, for example, even though I was leading an 
interop workshop and panel discussion. 

A full-day or even multi-day program would make the trip more valuable, 
compared to a short session.  Of course, having designed exercises for 
such events before, I know how difficult that is.  This will be easier 
once our TC has created some real test cases to run.

-Rob

> 
> 
> Feel free to drop me a line, preferably before January 15th.
> 
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Bart