ODF Plugfest, September 15-16 2015 at The Hague

["Dennis E. Hamilton" <de...@acm.org>]

This came up in July and was discussed a little at Apache OpenOffice. 

Typically, these are held annually.

With regard to Corinthia support for ODF, and interop testing with other implementations, this may be of interest, whether this time or at a future event.

WHAT THE ODF PLUGFEST IS 

Information about the Plugfest is on this Wiki page: 
<http://plugtest.opendocsociety.org/doku.php?id=plugfests:201509_thehague:info>.

To see how these have operated, it is useful to look at the programs of prior plugfests starting with the two in 2009 (although some of the historical material seems to consist of placeholders). 

I have not been to any of these except vicariously as a member of the OASIS ODF Interoperability and Conformance (OIC) Technical Committee and as a participant in some of the planning.

I see three matters that are useful to be present for. If someone in Europe is interested, Louis Suárez-Potts might be able to provide an avenue.

 1. The presentations on ODF adoption and also on developments of the ODF specifications
 2. The subsequent presentations on implementation efforts, where 8 are listed so far, including Apache OpenOffice.
 3. The Interop testing that occupies the remainder of the first day and all of the second day.  For this, it is desirable to show up with demonstration and test documents to interchanges and then inspect implementations.  This activity tends to be conducted in confidence, regrettably.  There is a sample scenario template to use in presenting tests.