[Plugtest-org] Plugfest planning teleconference - June 22nd 2011, 15h UTC.

[Michiel Leenaars]

Dear all,


hopefully this email finds you well. You should have all received the
invitation from Martin Schallbruch, CIO of the Federal Ministry of the
Interior, to the next ODF plugfest to be held in Berlin on July 14th and
15th 2011. If you have any questions, need assistance or just need more
details, please contact Mr. Holger Böken, +49 (30) 18681-2390) or Ms.
Silke Hildebrandt (it2 at bmi.bund.de, +49 (30) 18681-1716).

Please also find the invitation below, and forward it to whomever you
think it matters within your network.

We will have a planning call for the next plugfest on next Wednesday
June 22nd 2011 at 15h UTC. For your timezone check:

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2011&month=6&day=22&hour=15&min=0&sec=0&p1=43&p2=136&p3=48

You are invited to attend, or alternatively send ideas and comments to
this list. You will find a list of dial in codes listed here:

https://www.teleconference.att.com/servlet/glbAccess?process=1&accessCode=84367726&accessNumber=2158616239

Upon calling you will be asked to provide a participant code, this is:
84367726. I look forward to talking to you and to a successful plugfest.

Kind regards,

on behalf of OpenDoc Society
Michiel Leenaars

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Save the date: 6th ODF Plugfest on July 14th and 15th 2001 in
Berlin
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:26:32 +0200
From: <IT2 at bmi.bund.de>
To: <Holger.Boeken at bmi.bund.de>


To whom it may concern.

I have the pleasure to invite you to participate in the 6th OpenDocument
Format (ODF) Plugfest on July 14th and 15th 2011, Invalidenstr. 48,
10557 Berlin Germany. This Plugfest is a two day interoperability
workshop on open document exchange formats hosted by the Federal
Ministry of the Interior and the Federal Ministry of Economics and
Technology in Berlin, in collaboration with OpenDoc Society, the OASIS
ODF TC, OASIS ODF OIC and the OASIS ODF Adoption TC. Previous events in
this series supported by other governmental organisations were held
since 2009 at The Hague (Netherlands), Orvieto (Italy), Granada (Spain),
Brussels (Belgium) and Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead (UK).

The Berlin Plugfest will bring together key vendors and organisations
implementing Open Document Format to discuss its future. It also
involves stakeholders like the German Federal Government to voice our
requirements. The aim is to provide a hands-on interoperability testing
environment in which vendors and community members can fine-tune the
interoperability capabilities of various productivity applications and
make test scenarios, recommendations, ultimately creating guidelines for
implementers. Our goal is to encourage seamless interoperability across
all suppliers, platforms and supported technologies. The strength of the
event is the opportunity to work with many vendors at once.

The interoperability of products utilising open document exchange
formats immediately impacts everyone's productivity. This is why all who
have a significant stake in this process should work together. It would
be great if you could send a delegation to the Plugfest, or even
participate yourself. With many of the teams behind the competing
productivity tools on the market attending with their lead developers,
technical management, as well as their community leaders, the Plugfest's
importance transcends the narrow remit of the technical and embraces the
reality of use.

There is no fee required to participate. Would you be so kind as to
inform us by June 30th, whether you or a representative from your
organisation plans to attend this event? If you have any questions, need
assistance or just need more details, we will gladly help you out.
Please contact Mr. Holger Böken, +49 (30) 18681-2390) or Ms. Silke
Hildebrandt (it2 at bmi.bund.de, +49 (30) 18681-1716).

At your request we can send you a formal letter to assist with any visa
applications. Meanwhile, you can already go to the Plugfest website
(http://www.odfplugfest.de ) and find more information about the results
of the previous ODF Plugfest - as well as the preliminary plans for the
next one.

We hope to see you in Berlin!
Regards,

Martin Schallbruch
CIO of the Federal Ministry of the Interior