[Plugtest-org] draft agenda updated

Tue Sep 29 19:42:00 CEST 2009

Backing up a bit -- what exactly are we doing here?  Remember applications 
don't convert legacy documents to ODF.  OpenOffice doesn't do this. 
Symphony doesn't do this.  Microsoft Office doesn't do this.  I don't 
think anyone "converts" legacy documents to ODF.  What we do is load a 
legacy document into our products.  And then when the time comes to save 
it, we save it to whatever format the user requests, which might be ODF, 
but it might be some entirely different format, like Microsoft binary, or 
SmartSuite, or WordPerfect or whatever.  But at the time we ready the 
legacy document, we have no idea whether it will eventually saved in ODF 
format.  Therefore the reading of legacy document files has nothing to do 
with ODF. 

Also, if we have an app scenario that deals with legacy formats, then we 
make it harder for other vendors to participate in that activity because 
the person they are sending to the plugfest may know nothing about the 
legacy import filters.  So if the error is in reading the legacy files we 
won't be able to make much progress. 

-Rob

From:
Hanssens Bart <Bart.Hanssens at fedict.be>
To:
"Fabrice.Mous at opendocsociety.org" <Fabrice.Mous at opendocsociety.org>
Cc:
"plugtest-organisers at opendocsociety.org" 
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Date:
09/29/2009 01:11 PM
Subject:
Re: [Plugtest-org] draft agenda updated
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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
________________________________________
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; 
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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
>> --
>> Fabrice Mous
>> OpenDoc Society
>> +31 648585162
>> fabrice.mous at opendocsociety.org
>> http://nl.opendocsociety.org
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