Re: [oic] FW: ODF interop event in June, The Hague (NL)

[Peter Junge <peterjunge@RedOffice.com>]

Hi Bart,

do you have a link at hand to learn more about the event. I cannot find
anything, neither at the website of the OpenDoc Society nor at the OASIS
event page.

Best regards,
Peter

Hanssens Bart wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> In addition, the organizer has offered us the possibility to do a face 2
> face
> meeting in a separate room, so we could get some work done (like discussing
> assertions, writing test cases etc)
> 
> Of course, this depends on the number of interested OIC members that
> could be
> present during the event (although we could also use the OASIS chat room
> and/or
> conference facilities if anyone wants to participate but cannot attend the
> meeting "in real life")
> 
> Any takers ?
> 
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Bart
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hanssens Bart
> Sent: Fri 4/10/2009 12:19 PM
> To: oic@lists.oasis-open.org; odf-adoption@lists.oasis-open.org
> Cc: Carol Geyer
> Subject: ODF interop event in June, The Hague (NL)
> 
> Dear members,
> 
> 
> Today I've received this (preliminary) invitation from NLNet on an ODF
> interop event in The Hague (NL), organized by the Dutch government and
> OpenDoc Society (and co-organized by OASIS)
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Bart
> 
> 
> 
> "
> ODF interoperability event
> Royal Library, The Hague
> June 15/16 2009
> 
> The first of a series of events that will bring together implementors
> of OASIS OpenDocument Format/ISO 26300 to unilaterally test and discuss
> implementation issues of ODF with each other. All ODF implementors are
> invited to participate in this event on behalf of the Dutch government
> and OpenDoc Society.
> 
> The aim is to provide a low-level hands-on interoperability testing
> environment in which vendors and community members can fine tune the
> interoperability capabilities of their ODF implementations and make
> test cases, recommendations and create best practices for implementors.
> The ultimate goals is to achieve full seamless interoperability for the
> entire feature set of ODF across all suppliers, platforms and supported
> technologies.
> 
> The workshop is meant for people who write and architect the code to
> handle the actual ODF in applications - desktop editors and viewers,
> online apps, mobile, etc. Participants should represent every major
> teams behind the various competing ODF products, their direct
> (technical) management and community leaders, as well as the members of
> the ODF OIC committee.
> 
> This event will be organised by the Dutch government programme
> Netherlands in Open Connection and OpenDoc Society. Associated
> organisers are the ODF European Group, and OASIS.
> 
> ** Travel arrangements
> 
> Participants are responsible for their own flights, hotels and meals.
> Workshop reception/social event are sponsored by Dutch government and
> OpenDoc Society. Open source implementors can apply for funding to fly
> in.
> 
> ** Tentative schedule Day I
> 
> 9.30 Opening by Ineke Schop, Netherlands in Open Connection
> ~     "ODF within the government: a clear business case"
> 9.45 Introduction by Bert Bakker, chairman of OpenDoc Society
> ~     "ODF Maturity in a multi-vendor paradigm"
> 10.00 Sander Marchechal, lead developer Officeshots.org
> ~      "Setting the stage for interoperability testing"
> ~      Officeshots.org offers a rendering farm for ODF applications
> 10.15 Jean-Marie Gouarne (tbc)
> ~      "ODF test documents: experiences from ODF2XLIFF"
> 10.30 Bart Hanssens
> ~      "Interoperability and Conformance testing within OASIS OIC"
> 
> 10.45 Break
> 
> 11.00 - 12.00 Debate: How do we converge on handling historical
> ~              application formats
> ~              Consistent mapping of historical file formats on ODF
> ~              Led by Patrick Durusau (tbc)
> 
> 12.00 - 13.30 Lunch
> 
> 13.30 - 17.00 Start of parallel sessions in tracks:
> 
> ~              - Text documents
> ~              - Spread sheets
> ~              - Presentations
> 
> N.B. Each of the tracks will deal with topics specific to those
> application areas such as:
> 
> ~              - Character and paragraph styling
> ~              - Lists
> ~              - Footnotes, end-notes and annotations
> ~              - Field data
> ~              - Tables
> ~              - Graphics and embedded objects
> ~              - Handling Embedded Scripting
> ~              - Pagination
> ~              - Maintaining foreign elements in documents
> ~              - ODF <> HTML
> 
> 18.30-20.30 Workshop dinner, offered by the Dutch government.
> 
> Speech by mr. Frank Heemskerk, minister of Foreign Economic Affair (tbc)
> 
> ** Tentative schedule Day II:
> 
> 9.30 Marino Marcich:
> ~      "The challenge of seamless interoperability"
> 9.45 Opening by Rob Weir.
> ~      "From ODF pre-1.2 to ODF 1.2"
> 10.10 Michael Brauer
> ~     "ODF Next - what's on the shopping list"
> 10.35 Break
> 11.45-12.00 Continued parallel sessions
> 
> 12.00 Lunch
> 
> 13.30-16.00 Continued parallel sessions
> 
> 16.00 Wrapup panel
> ~      "How do we cooperate on the future of interop?"
> ~       From interop workshops to perpetual plugfests
> 
> 17.00 Closing reception
> "
> 
> 
> 

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