[Plugtest-org] Your comments please

[Sachiko Muto]

I agree with Peter.

Sachiko

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Peter Junge <peter.junge at gmx.org> wrote:
> 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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