[ODFPlugtest] FOSDEM and ODF devroom

[robert_weir at us.ibm.com]

Something that might be fun:

Have a contents.  Someone comes up with a problem to solve, something 
within the domain of document processing.  Not too hard.  Something that 
could be designed, coded and tested, say, in two or three hours.  It would 
need to be kept secret, obviously, from any of the toolkit projects. 

Then at the ODF devroom, the problem is revealed and each "team", 
representing a different toolkit project, has 2 or 3 hours to implement a 
solution to the problem.  You do that in the morning for example.  Then 
after lunch each team gets a chance to present their program, how they 
solved the problem, what features of their toolkit made the problem easy 
or difficult, etc. 

It is not necessary, but we could award some prize for the most elegant 
solution, or the solution that required the least amount of code, or the 
solution that was completed first, or whatever.  You could have a number 
of different award categories.

We then publish the code of all of the solutions, and maybe follow up with 
an article comparing and contrasting the different approaches taken.

-Rob

plugtest-bounces at opendocsociety.org wrote on 12/06/2009 12:53:44 PM:

> 
> plugtest-bounces at opendocsociety.org
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I've added a proposal to the wiki 
> 
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/index.php?title=FOSDEM/2010/CFP
> 
> I'd still rather have a hacking session, so if the ODF Toolkit / 
> lpOD / Koffice /
> other folks have a better proposal, please submit it  ;-)
> 
> My talk would be simply outlining the various tools and libraries that 
exist,
> but without going into much detail.
> 
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Bart
> ________________________________________
> From: Juergen.Schmidt at Sun.COM [Juergen.Schmidt at Sun.COM]
> Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 11:10 AM
> To: Hanssens Bart
> Cc: ODF Plugfest mailinglist
> Subject: Re: FOSDEM and ODF devroom
> 
> Hi Bart,
> 
> Hanssens Bart wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > I've received confirmation from FOSDEM organizers that we do NOT have 
a
> > dedicated ODF devroom, we have to share it with the nice OOo people.
> >
> > I presume there will be a "call for paper" for the OOo devroom 
> real soon now,
> exactly i send out a CFP yesterday on various OOo mailing lists. At this
> time i didn't know about the fact that we will share our DevRoom with
> the ODF group. But it's natural that we have some overlaps and i don't
> see problem.
> 
> I would suggest that you put your proposals until December 18th on the
> wiki page as well.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Juergen
> 
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