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Berlin 2007

Thursday, October 9

8.00-9.00  Registration/Arrival of Participants
9.00-9.15

Opening Address

  • The Honorable Mrs. N. Mapisa-Nqakula odt|pdf
    Minister of Home Affairs
    Republic of South Africa
9.15-9.30

Welcome and Introductions 

  • Aslam Raffee
    Dept. of Science & Technology

  • Marino Marcich
    ODF Alliance
9.30-10.30 

ODF: Government IT Leadership in Action                            

  • Reflecting Back, Looking Forward odp|pdf
    Robert Sutor, Vice President, Open Source and Standards, IBM
  • Be the Change You Want to See in the World odp|odt
    Justice Yatindra Singh, High Court, Allahabad, India
10.30-10.45  Coffee Break
10.45-12.30 

ODF Implementation: Early Adopters Share Strategies for Success      

  • Implementing ODF in Belgium: No Country for Old Men odp|pdf
    Peter Strickx, Fedict, Belgium

  • The Brasília Protocol: A Model for Transitioning from Policy to Use of ODF odp| odt|pdf
    Carlos Machado, Federal Enterprise for Data Processing (SERPRO),and Paulo Maia, Caixa Econômica Federal, Brazil

  • An Inconvenient Truth about Open Standards and ODF
    Ineke Schop, Netherlands in Open Connection (NOiV), The Netherlands
12.30-14.00 

Buffet Lunch (on premises of DST)

14.00-16.00

Getting Started: Lessons Learned from the Early Stages

  • OpenOffice.org Migration in the Malaysian Public Sector pdf
    Tan King Ing, Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit (MAMPU), Malaysia
  • Venezuela's Road to Open Document Formats odp|pdf
    Carlos González, National Center on Information Technologies, Venezuela
  • Germany: Open document exchange formats, security and lessons learned odp|pdf
    Martin Bierwirth, Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), Ministry of Interior, Germany
  • ODF Implementation in the Government of South Africa: Challenges and Opportunities odp|pdf
    Aslam Raffee, Dept. of Science & Technology, South Africa
16.00-16.15  Coffee Break
16.15-17.00 

ODF and Interoperability                                          

  • The European Interoperability Framework v2 & Open Standards – A European Perspective odp|pdf
    Graham Taylor, Chief Executive, Open Forum Europe
  • From Standardization to Interoperability - A Closer Look at ODF Applications Support odp|pdf
    Andrew Rist, Interoperability Analyst, Oracle
17.00-17.15  Summary & Conclusions from Day 1
19.30     

Dinner  (location)

            Dinner Remarks

  • The Honorable Derek Hanekom
    Deputy Minister for Science & Technology
    Republic of South Africa

 

Friday, October 10

8.30-9.00   Arrival of Participants (coffee) 
9.00-10.45

The Future of ODF

  • ODF and the Adoption-Led Market odp|pdf
    Simon Phipps, Chief Open Source Officer, Sun Microsystems
  • ODF 1.2 - Metadata, Spreadsheet Formula, Digital Signatures, and More: What's New with ODF? odp|pdf
    Jomar Silva, ODF Alliance Brazil
  • Mapping the ODF Community
    Zaheda Bhorat, Manager, Open Source, Google
10.45-11.00

Coffee Break
11.00-11.45

Perspectives from Regional Governments

  • ODF in Tendering odp|pdf
    MK Yadava, Government of Assam, India

  • Kerala's Open Migration odp|pdf
    Arun Madhavan Pillai, Kerala State Information Technology Mission (KSITM), Kerala, India
11.45-12.30  

Open Discussion – Workshop Summary & Conclusions

  • Marino Marcich, ODF Alliance odt | pdf
12.30  

  Closing Remarks

  • Minister for Science & Technology
    Republic of South Africa

 

 
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