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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Invitation Dutch minister to KOffice developers - ODF
From:       Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-06-05 9:20:02
Message-ID: 5847e5cf0906050220k26a89e46q721241302329c210 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Fabrice Mous<Fabrice.Mous@ictu.nl> wrote:
> Dear KOffice developers,
>
> My name is Fabrice Mous and I am a government advisor working on the
> adoption of open standards and open source software within the Dutch
> government. Last year the Dutch government adopted a national policy [1]
> [2] where it has made support for the OpenDocument Format a mandatory
> requirement for all of its agencies and applications. One of my
> performing roles is projectleader for the ODF policy adoption in The
> Netherlands.
>
> I am very delighted to send the KOffice development team an invitation
> from our minister for Foreign Trade, Frank Heemskerk, to participate in
> a two day ODF Interoperability Workshop (Plugfest) in the Royal
> Library, The Hague Netherlands [3]. This event is organised together
> with OpenDoc Society on June 15/16th 2009 and wants to bring together
> implementors of OASIS OpenDocument Format/ISO 26300 to unilaterally
> test and discuss implementation issues of ODF with each other.
>
> The workshop is targeted at people who write and architect the code to
> handle the actual ODF in applications. The ultimate goal is to achieve
> full seamless interoperability for the entire feature set(s) of ODF
> across all suppliers, platforms and supported technologies. KOffice has
> played a pivotal role in the development of ODF, and should continue to
> do so.
>
> A personal invitation of the minister to the KOffice team is attached
> [4] to this e-mail as is the programme [5] for this two day event. We
> hope your organisation is able to send a delegation to participate in
> this unique international event.
>
> Participants are responsible for their own flights, hotels and meals.
> However, non-commercial open source implementors can apply for a grant
> to fly in through OpenDoc Society. More information can be acquired
> through the following contacts:

If there are people who want to visit this conference I volunteer to
(help) organize things like a place to sleep etc if necessary.

grtz

Jos


>  Michiel Leenaars
>  +31 (0)6 27050947
>  m.leenaars@opendocsociety.org
>
>  Fabrice Mous
>  +31 (0)6 48585162
>  fabrice.mous@noiv.nl
>
> Kind regards,
>
>
> Fabrice Mous
>
> [1] http://www.noiv.nl/noiv/en
> [2] Actionplan The Netherlands in Open Connection.pdf
> [3] http://www.odfworkshop.nl
> [4] invitation-interoperabilityworkshop-ministerForeignTrade.pdf
> [5] http://odfworkshop.nl/programme_20090615-16
>
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