{"id":188,"date":"2008-10-12T21:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T02:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2d823b65bb.nxcli.io\/2008\/10\/odf-ooocon-2008.html"},"modified":"2008-10-12T21:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T02:21:00","slug":"odf-ooocon-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/odf-ooocon-2008.html","title":{"rendered":"ODF @ OOoCon 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah,the relief.   I can miss the silly season this year.  I can turn off the TV, turn off the talk radio, turn the newspaper straight to the sports page, and altogether ignore the last month of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Why?  Because I&#8217;m attending the <a href=\"http:\/\/marketing.openoffice.org\/ooocon2008\/\">OpenOffice.org 2008 Conference<\/a> in Beijing, November 5th-7th.  Since I&#8217;ll miss election day, I&#8217;m submitting an absentee ballot, and in fact I&#8217;ve just filled it out.  I predict a great increase in personal productivity from being able to sit out the remainder of the minute-by-minute saturation campaign coverage.<\/p>\n<p>This will be my third OOoCon.  After Barcelona last year and Lyon in 2006, the organizers this year have a tough act to follow.  But from what I can see, this year is shaping up to be the &#8220;best ever&#8221;, with open ceremonies at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse (former residence of Madame Mao) and a conference sessions at Peking University.<\/p>\n<p>Although the focus of the conference is OpenOffice.org, the program, the developers, the translators, promoters and users, there is also a natural overlapping interest in OpenDocument Format (ODF).  Because of this, OOoCon typically is also the largest ODF conference of the year, at least based on number of ODF-related sessions.<\/p>\n<p>In particular I&#8217;ll draw your attention to the following ODF-related sessions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Interoperability &#8212; expectations, promises, problems and solutions (Florian Reuter)<\/li>\n<li>OpenOffice.org and the ODF Ecosystem (Dieter Loeschky)<\/li>\n<li>Panel Discussion &#8212; ODF Interoperability Perspectives (with representatives from IBM, Sun, Google, Novell, FEDICT, moderated by Aslam Rafee of DST)<\/li>\n<li>ODF@WWW &#8212; An ODF Wiki (Kay Ramme)<\/li>\n<li>OOo and ODF Accessibility (Malte Timermann)<\/li>\n<li>The New ODF 1.2 Metadata Framework and its Support in OpenOffice.org 3 (Svante Schubert)<\/li>\n<li>ODFDOM -the new open sourced  multi-tiered API for ISO OpenDocument Format (Svante Schubert)<\/li>\n<li>ODF Accessibility: Perspectives Past &amp; Future (Don Harbison)<\/li>\n<li>Introduction to SMIL and Implementation in Lotus Symphony (Yan Peng Guo \/IBM)<\/li>\n<li>Transforming and OWL Ontology to an OpenOffice Document Template (Massoud Toussi)<\/li>\n<li>Improving ODF Applications by sharing ODF tests (Svante Schubert)<\/li>\n<li>Enabling ODF for Social Collaboration with Composite Applications and Mashups (Santosh Kumar)<\/li>\n<li>ODFDOM Workshop &#8212; using the new opensourced multi-tiered API for ODF (Svante Schubert)<\/li>\n<li>Digital Signatures: A Global Challenge (Joachim Linger)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Full details are in the <a href=\"http:\/\/marketing.openoffice.org\/ooocon2008\/programme.html\">conference program<\/a>.  My pride in seeing so many good ODF-related sessions is slightly offset by the the sadness that interest in ODF has grown so much that I can not possibly attend all of these sessions.<\/p>\n<p>I hope to see many old and new friends in Beijing.  This is a great opportunity to continue spreading the message of open source and open standards around the globe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah,the relief. I can miss the silly season this year. I can turn off the TV, turn off the talk radio, turn the newspaper straight to the sports page, and altogether ignore the last month of the campaign. Why? Because I&#8217;m attending the OpenOffice.org 2008 Conference in Beijing, November 5th-7th. 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