Through a series of short presentations and a
panel discussion, members of the OASIS ODF Technical Committee and OASIS ODF Adoption
Committee will host a discussion of ODF interoperability from several
perspectives, including the view from a government deployment in
Belgium (using OpenOffice.org and MS-Office with plugins), an
introduction to the new ODF interoperability initiative in OASIS and
reports on other interoperability initiatives from major vendors and
service providers working with and committed to ODF. Aslam Rafee of the South African Department of
Science and Technology will
moderate the session, with participation from the following experts:
Robert Weir, Software Architect, IBM, Co-Chair of OASIS ODF TC; Bart
Hanssens, Interoperability Expert, FEDICT (Belgian Fed.Gov.); Florian
Reuter, Novell; Malte Timmermann or Dieter Loeschky, Sun; Jeremy
Allison, Software Engineer, Google, Lead Developer, Samba.