[Plugtest-org] Your comments please

Louis Suarez-Potts luispo at gmail.com
Tue Oct 13 22:04:10 CEST 2009


Hi,

Thanks, Michiel! Nice job...But:

I substantially rewrote it. It's attached.

Ciao,
Louis


On 2009-10-13, at 10:33 , Michiel Leenaars wrote:

> Dear Sir/Madam,
>
> I have the pleasure to invite you to participate in the second ODF  
> plugfest, a
> two day ODF Interoperability Workshop which will take place in the  
> Italian
> city of Orvieto on November 2nd and 3rd 2009 at Fondazione Cassa di  
> Risparmio
> di Orvieto. This important event is organised by OpenDoc Society  
> together with
> a number of other stakeholders including the OASIS ODF TC, ODF
> OIC TC, ODF Adoption TC and the Netherlands government (through the
> Netherlands in Open Connection Program) .
>
> The workshop is the second in a series of events that brings together
> implementors of OASIS OpenDocument Format/ISO 26300, after the first  
> plugfest
> which was held in The Hague in June this year - which was visited by  
> over
> sixtyfive participants from forty different companies, open source  
> projects
> and governments.
>
> In addition to the regular interoperability testing activities, we  
> have some
> very interesting sessions for you as can be seen in the attached  
> preliminary
> program.  We are most excited to have Doug Mahugh from Microsoft  
> Corporation
> presenting for the first time the mapping of his companies legacy  
> binary
> Office file formats to ODF, which we consider to be a another major  
> step
> towards interoperability across time and products. Although ODF has  
> become the
> default format in many applications these days, one of the key  
> issues when
> working with document standards is how to deal with going back and  
> forth
> reliably between ODF and legacy formats from various applications.  
> Doug will
> talk about the internal mappings as used by Microsoft and will go  
> into detail
> what challenges their engineers have had in natively implementing  
> ODF in their
> flagship products Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010. We hope other  
> vendors will
> follow suit and release other relevant mappings of legacy file  
> formats - both
> for review and for implementing.
>
> Of course the Orvieto plugfest will again provide plenty of  
> opportunity to
> multilaterally test and discuss implementation issues of ODF with  
> other
> application developers. We have already seen major progress in
> interoperability between participating applications since the previous
> plugfest. 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
> scenario's, recommendations and create best practises for  
> implementors. The
> ultimate goal is to achieve full seamless interoperability for the  
> entire
> feature set(s) of ODF across all suppliers, platforms and supported
> technologies.
>
> We hope that you will send a delegation as well to participate. With  
> many of
> the teams behind the competing productivity tools on the market  
> attending with
> their lead developers, technical management and/or their community  
> leaders,
> this will hopefully be another important milestone. There is no fee  
> required
> to participate, thanks to generous sponsorship from Fondazione Cassa  
> di
> Risparmio di Orvieto and NLnet foundation. The plugfest is meant for  
> those
> people within your company or team that write and architect the code  
> to handle
> the actual ODF. Would you be so kind as to inform us if you or a
> representative from your company plans to attend this event or not?
>
> If you have any questions, need assistance or just need more  
> details, we will
> gladly help you out. Please contact Fabrice Mous (fabrice.mous at
> opendocsociety.org) or Michiel Leenaars (michiel.leenaars at
> opendocsociety.org), or one of the other members of the organising  
> committee
> (*). At your request we can send you a letter to assist with any visa
> applications. Meanwhile, you can already go to the plugfest website
> (http://plugtest.opendocsociety.org) to look at the results of the  
> previous
> plugfest as well as the preliminary plans for the next one. We hope  
> to see you
> in Orvieto.
>
> Kind regards,
> on behalf of OpenDoc Society
>
> Bert Bakker
> President
>
>
> ------------
> (*) The organising committee for the second ODF plugfest consists of:
>
> Jeremy Allison (Google)
> Peter Amstein (Microsoft)
> Zaheda Bhorat (Google)
> Pim Bliek (Netherlands in Open Connection)
> Basil Cousins (Open Forum Europe)
> Roberto Galoppini (OpenOffice.org)
> Dennis Hamilton
> Bart Hanssens (Fedict) - chair ODF OIC TC
> Don  Harbison (IBM) - chair ODF Adoption TC
> Peter Junge (Red Office)
> Morten Kjaersgaard (OSL)
> Michiel Leenaars (Opendoc Society)
> Doug Mahugh (Microsoft)
> Marino Marcich (ODF alliance)
> Fabrice Mous (OpenDoc Society)
> Sachiko Muto (Open Forum Europe)
> Andrew Rist (Oracle)
> Luis Suarez-Potts (SUN Microsystems)
> Graham Taylor (Open Forum Europe)
> Rob Weir (IBM) - chair ODF TC
> Jan Wildeboer (Redhat)
> Oliver-Rainer Wittmann (SUN Microsystems)
>
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