[Plugtest-org] Presentation Proposal

[Louis Suárez-Potts]

I was thinking of Thursday, and will do as you suggest.

cheers,

Louis


On 2012-03-02, at 16:01 , robert_weir at us.ibm.com wrote:

> plugtest-organisers-bounces at opendocsociety.org wrote on 03/01/2012 04:19:45 PM:
> > From: Louis Suárez-Potts <luispo at gmail.com> 
> > To: ODF Plugfest-organisers <plugtest-organisers at opendocsociety.org>, 
> > Date: 03/01/2012 04:21 PM 
> > Subject: [Plugtest-org] Presentation Proposal 
> > Sent by: plugtest-organisers-bounces at opendocsociety.org 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > I'd like to submit my proposal for a presentation at the Brussels 
> > plugfest upcoming. 
> > --louis
> > 
> 
> Were you thinking of this for the Thursday technical track, or the Friday sessions? 
> 
> Time is generally tight on the Friday session, where we have all the vendor presentations.  But if you can do it on Thursday, then I'd recommend to pick a slot on the wiki and pen yourself in someplace that is open. 
> 
> It sounds like an interesting topic. 
> 
> -Rob 
> 
> > --
> > 
> > ODF in your hands now
> > -louis suarez-potts
> > President, Age of Peers
> > 
> > 
> > This presentation has two parts. The first is an account of the ODF 
> > ecosystem. The second relates to a proposal engaging that 
> > ecosystem's resources.
> > 
> > 
> > Technical papers on the immediate future of the ODF, e.g., on ODF 1.
> > 3, are being presented this slugfest.What I would like to do here is
> > argue for a direction I believe important to go in, and also promote
> > a large-scale strategy for getting there. My argument for a 
> > preferred direction relates, I realize more to implementations of 
> > the ODF than to the ODF itself. In this particular case, however, I 
> > don't think that distinction much matters, as I am not speaking on 
> > behalf of any particular implementation. 
> > 
> > I want to see an ODF editor on handheld mobile devices this year. I 
> > am not alone. The anticipation and excitement greeting OnLive's iPad
> > app, which supports some editing features for Microsoft file 
> > formats, suggests the volume of desire for having a mobile 
> > productivity tool. Given the growth of the ODF, and the safe guess 
> > that there will be even more millions of users in the next few 
> > years, as more students and government office workers start using 
> > implementations of the ODF, there is strong reason to believe that 
> > devices supporting ODF editing apps will be much in demand. 
> > 
> > Yet, though viewers of ODF files exist (most recently, Symphony's), 
> > to date, there is no actual app that can work on any Android or iOS 
> > device. The reasons for that lack are both obvious and subtle, but 
> > as I shall argue here, the need for such an app (or family of apps) 
> > overwhelms them. The resources required can be met, I will further 
> > suggest, by several means, all within reach, and all within the ODF 
> > ecosystem. 
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