[Plugtest-org] Legacy formats at the plugfest

[Doug Mahugh]

Hi Michiel,

Yes, I'd be glad to put something together on this topic.  I can show examples of our mapping spreadsheets, explain how we made those decisions and some of the challenges we faced and so on.  Let me know how much time you think we should spend on this topic, and I'll get a presentation together.

Regards,
Doug


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From: plugtest-organisers-bounces at opendocsociety.org [mailto:plugtest-organisers-bounces at opendocsociety.org] On Behalf Of Michiel Leenaars
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 6:50 AM
To: plugtest-organisers at opendocsociety.org
Subject: [Plugtest-org] Legacy formats at the plugfest

Dear all,

w.r.t. the debate on mapping of legacy formats and ODF: 

I recall that during the previous plugfest Peter Amstein from Microsoft stated that they have an internal spreadsheet that contains their mapping of the Microsoft binary formats on ODF and vice versa. I'm not sure when Microsoft plans to release this, but obviously it would be interesting to discuss how to make, maintain and version such a mapping as I see a need for similar mappings from other vendors as well. These might concern other popular legacy formats such as Corel's native Wordperfect and the old Lotus formats but maybe also how applications like OpenOffice.org or Google Docs map ODF on say the binary Microsoft Office file formats.

Maybe Peter or Doug could do a short presentation on how Microsoft went about creating their mapping? It would be good to discuss best practises on how to publish this type of information, I think.

Best,
Michiel
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