[Plugtest-org] Your comments please

[Peter Junge]

Hi,

as the contents of both drafts doesn't seem to differ significantly, I 
would vote for Louis' version as I find his diction great.

Best regards,
Peter

Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:
> 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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