[Plugtest-org] draft agenda updated

[Hanssens Bart]

Fabrice,

can you ask the City of Amsterdam to create one (or a few) simple but
challenging scenarios for converting legacy documents to ODF ? Thanks

Meanwhile, I've added it to the agenda, things are shaping up :-)

Best regards,

Bart
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From: Louis Suarez-Potts [luispo at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 3:42 PM
To: Hanssens Bart
Cc: Fabrice.Mous at opendocsociety.org; plugtest-organisers at opendocsociety.org
Subject: Re: [Plugtest-org] draft agenda updated

Hi

On 2009-09-29, at 03:27 , Hanssens Bart wrote:

> Louis, Fabrice,
>
>
> Mm, ok, I can see the point...
>
> But in that case I'd suggest to focus on converting legacy formats
> to ODF, and have the City of Amsterdam provide some scenarios
> that can be tested instead of "just" doing a presentation
> (which will no doubt be very interesting, but the implementations
> will benefit more from actually trying to convert "difficult" legacy)
>
> How does that sound, say 1 or 2 hour on day 2 ?

Agreed; even a workshop comes to mind. But the key point here would be
*focus*: unfocused presentations on difficulties encountered and with
no repeatable solutions is simply a waste of everyone's time.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Bart
>
best
Louis
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Louis Suarez-Potts [luispo at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 5:25 AM
> To: Hanssens Bart
> Cc: Fabrice.Mous at opendocsociety.org; plugtest-organisers at opendocsociety.org
> Subject: Re: [Plugtest-org] draft agenda updated
>
> I think that this (resolution of ODF/doc and also OOXML?) could be
> interesting, esp. as Amsterdam represents several things--a city
> that's big and migrating over, and doing so with essentially local
> companies. That is, I think that other groups would be quite
> interested.
>
> Louis
>
>
> On 2009-09-28, at 04:00 , Hanssens Bart wrote:
>
>> Hello Fabrice,
>>
>>
>> I'm not into the business of slapping people, I just make them use
>> vi :-)
>>
>> mmz, their experience is of course very interesting and useful, but
>> perhaps
>> for this event it's better to focus on ODF interoperability, not on
>> migration
>> issues...
>>
>> Since you specifically mentioned printing and styling, do they still
>> encounter
>> issues when opening / printing their ODF documents in, say,
>> GoogleDocs,
>> MS-Office 2007sp2, OpenOffice... ?
>>
>> If so, could the come up with a simple scenario that can be tested
>> on Day 2 ?
>> That way they can highlight issues _and_ we might have people in the
>> room
>> actually solving (or at least identifying the cause of) those issue
>> at the same
>> time...
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Bart
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Fabrice Mous [Fabrice.Mous at opendocsociety.org]
>> Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 9:35 AM
>> To: Hanssens Bart
>> Cc: plugtest-organisers at opendocsociety.org
>> Subject: Re: [Plugtest-org] draft agenda updated
>>
>> Hi Bart,
>>
>> On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 09:12 +0200, Hanssens Bart wrote:
>> [..]
>>> Also, I'd like to call for volunteers who are willing to lead one
>>> or more sessions
>>> (perhaps Roberto could do the opening talk and someone from
>>> opendocsociety
>>> the closing talk, and if someone wants to add a particular
>>> scenario, he/she can
>>> lead that session)
>>
>> Just a suggestion. Last week I spoke to some people from the City of
>> Amsterdam who are doing a major shift to open source and open
>> standards.
>> Currently they run into quite some incompatibilty issues between ODF
>> and
>> the MS Office file formats. There is even somewhat of a request wrt
>> printing functionality and styling of documents. I mentioned the ODF
>> Plugfest event and they were very interested
>>
>> Anyway ... if we think the ODF Plugfest stage might be a good place
>> for
>> them to talk their experiences I suggest we invite them. However,
>> this
>> is merely a suggestion. So feel free to slap me if you think this
>> suggestion makes no sense :)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Fabrice
>> --
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