Unfortunately, I shall not be able to go. My loss. Louis
On 11 November 2011 04:33, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks Rob for your feedback - it is welcome. > > Anything else? > > Is somebody else from our community attending? > > > Thanks and best regards, Oliver. > > On 09.11.2011 13:49, Rob Weir wrote: >> >> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I want to let you know that I will attend the ODF Plugfest in Gouda, NL >>> next >>> week [1], [2]. >>> >>> As an active member of the OASIS ODF TC (since Dec. 2006) and a long-term >>> developer of OpenOffice.org (since July 2002) I was attending the ODF >>> Plugfest since it got started in 2009 - I have missed the one in Berlin >>> in >>> July this year due to my vacation with my family. >>> >>> At the former events I have shared/discuss/present my view on the work at >>> the OASIS ODF TC and about the work which is going on in the >>> OpenOffice.org >>> project regarding ODF. I also represented Sun/Oracle and its products >>> around >>> ODF. See [3] for details. >>> >>> For the ODF Plugfest next week I am planning to give somehow a status >>> update >>> of our Apache OpenOffice.org project (incubating) from my point of view. >>> Something like: >>> - developers are working on the code for an "IP cleared" milestone >>> - status of the migration as found at [4] >>> - ... >>> >>> Any objections to do so? >>> >> >> I think it is perfectly fine to share *facts* about the project and to >> encourage interested parties to join. But we need to be careful about >> opinions and predictions. You can have personal opinions, or even IBM >> opinions, but you have no officialAOOo project-authorized opinions or >> predictions unless it is discussed here first. >> >> I think everyone will want to know, "When will we see the first Apache >> release of OpenOffice?" Everyone wants to know this. I think we all >> have our opinions on this. I personally think it will be in January. >> But this is not something that the project has explicitly agreed to as >> a goal. >> >>> Any further information which I can and should share on this event? >>> Here, I want to ask Dave and Don directly for input as they are/were in >>> Vancouver presenting/discussing our project ;-) >>> >> >> Maybe some mention also of the Apache ODF Toolkit, which is also under >> incubation: >> >> http://incubator.apache.org/odftoolkit/ >> >>> Are there other project members attending the ODF Plugfest in Gouda? >>> If yes, it would be a great opportunity to get in touch personally as >>> members of the same project. >>> >>> >>> Best regards, Oliver. >>> >>> >>> [1] http://odfplugfest.org/2011-gouda/ >>> [2] http://plugtest.opendocsociety.org/doku.php >>> [3] >>> >>> http://plugtest.opendocsociety.org/doku.php?id=plugfests:200906_thehague:participants:oliver-rainer_wittmann >>> [4] >>> >>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/OpenOffice.org+Migration+Status >>> >
