[Plugtest-org] ODF Plugfest agenda / things to clarify

[Dennis E. Hamilton]

As a bystander, I think there is a missing differentiation between the venue sponsor and the OpenDocument Society as stakeholder and standard bearer for the event.  I am thinking of the past effort to engage civil authorities in making invitations, providing visa letters, and so on.  

This is quite different than what one might expect from someone offering their facilities for the events.  

In the past, facilities were mainly in public facilities (university meeting rooms, etc) but the principle of differentiation between the venue sponsor/host and the Plugfest stakeholders and organizers should not be lost.

I have the feeling that because a prominent commercial firm is providing its facilities and related resources, it is somehow automatically assumed that everything else gets handled by them too.

That might not be a very good assumption.

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: plugtest-organisers-bounces at opendocsociety.org [mailto:plugtest-organisers-bounces at opendocsociety.org] On Behalf Of Louis Suárez-Potts
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 20:43
To: Hanssens Bart
Cc: John Haug; plugtest-organisers at opendocsociety.org; Bruno Schröder (brunosch at microsoft.com)
Subject: Re: [Plugtest-org] ODF Plugfest agenda / things to clarify

HI all,

On 2012-02-15, at 03:24 , Hanssens Bart wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Regardless who will be able to attend the first conference call, I think there are some important items that need to be discussed urgently.
> (AFAIK, this can be done over the mailing list)
> 
> 1) Confirmation of the exact date and location (Microsoft building in Brussels ? address ?) of the event
> 2) Availability of the room(s): from x:xx AM till y:yy PM ?
> 3) Check of the required facilities: number of seats, beamer, power outlets, (wired or wireless) network allowing HTTP/HTTPS/SSH/IRC access
> 4) Invitations: who / to whom / when
> 5) Program (so far: AsciiDOC ODF extension, ODF font embedding, product updates, maybe "Mobile" + no doubt presentations from Microsoft)
> 6) Microsoft contact person in Brussels 

 A few more points. 

First, clearly (to me) MSFT presumed this event to be a run-of-the-mill tech/geek event. Okay…. but it is not a simple geekfest. Prior plugfests worked because they also invited conceders to see the goods and good of open standards.  So…. having scheduled formal or informal post-event events is useful. I mean things like: dinners, drinks, etc.

Should MSFT be at a loss to proceed (for whatever reason), I think our combined wisdom on the list can surely help out. :-)

Cheers,
Louis
> 
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Bart
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