[ODFPlugtest] ODF interop at DII event in Brussels tomorrow

[Doug Mahugh]

Hi Michiel,

The event tomorrow will take place at the Microsoft Executive Briefing Center at Avenue des Nerviens 85.  You can find more information about the facility here: http://www.microsoft.com/ebc/brussels.mspx

Since today is a holiday in Belgium, I had to provide the list of attendees to the EBC staff as of end of day Tuesday, but I will notify them via email that you're planning to attend.  If there's any confusion at the front desk when you arrive, please ask for me.

I'm glad you can attend, as I've done some further research on the gradient issue and have some findings to report.  I don't understand why you refer to Microsoft Office specifically below, though -- all versions of OpenOffice.org, as well as all other ODF implementations I've tested, with the exception of the recent versions of KOffice, do not support the SVG gradient alternative that KOffice has recently implemented.  So your statement could just as easily have mentioned any other implementation instead of Microsoft Office.  Will you be sending emails to all other ODF implementers asking them to support KOffice's alternative approach to gradients?

In any event, I'll be doing some demonstrations tomorrow that should help clarify what's going on.

Regards,
Doug


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From: plugtest-bounces at opendocsociety.org [mailto:plugtest-bounces at opendocsociety.org] On Behalf Of Michiel Leenaars
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 1:53 AM
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Subject: [ODFPlugtest] ODF interop at DII event in Brussels tomorrow

Hello all,

(slightly off topic question, but relevant to many members of this list)

Doug Mahugh from Microsoft mentioned in Orvieto that there is an event organised by his company which will take place in Brussels tomorrow where he is talking about ODF-based interoperability. That will probably be very interesting, especially in the light of the outcome of the plugfest - where as you will remember one of the outcomes was that probably quite some features of Microsoft Office 2007 are unnecessarily broken when saving in ODF due to the missed fact that vector graphics in ODF consuming applications can use the full W3C SVG specification non-embedded rather than just the built-in subset meant for supporting low level graphics. I'm hopeful Doug will be able to give an update on that, given the timelines for their Office 2010 release.

But now to my actual question: I'm trying to find out where the event tomorrow will be, and when. The DII website from Microsoft itself unfortunately doesn't yet mention the workshop, and the mail address Doug provides on his blog bounces. Doug himself is wandering about Brussels taking pictures. So if anyone is attending, can you help me out?

Best,
Michiel Leenaars
Director of Strategy
NLnet foundation



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