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First International ODF User Workshop
29-30 October 2007
Berlin, Germany

Message of Greeting from German Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier:

Monday, 29 October

8.30-9.30 Registration/Arrival of Participants

9.30-9.45 Welcome
- Ulf-Dieter Klemm, Deputy Director General of the Central Services, &
Rolf Theodor Schuster, Chief Information Officer, Federal Foreign Office, Germany

9.45-10.30 The Policy Environment

- Trends in Europe (Barbara Held, IDABC, European Commission)
- Andalucía's Evolving “Open” Policy Framework (Juan Conde, Consejería de Innovación,
Ciencia y Empresa, Junta de Andalucía, Spain)
Moderator: Tom Rabon, Executive Vice President, Red Hat

10.30-10.45 Coffee Break

10.45-12.15 ODF Migration – Experiences of National Governments
- Implementing the Belgian Ministerial Decision on ODEF (Peter Strickx, Fedict, Belgium)
- The Netherlands Open and Connected: An action plan for the use of open standards and open
source software in the (semi-) public sector (Sander Ruiter, Ministry of Economic Affairs, The
Netherlands)
- Brazil: Access to Freedom, Freedom to Access (Deivi Lopes Kuhn, Coordenação Estratégica de
Software Livre, SERPRO, Brazil)
Moderator: Joachim Werner, Senior Outbound Product Manager EMEA, Novell

12.15-13.45 Buffet Lunch (on premises of the ministry)
Informal Remarks
Crawford Beveridge
Executive Vice President
and Chairman, EMEA, APAC
and the Americas
Sun Microsystems

13.45-15.15 ODF Migration – Experiences of Government Agencies
- Document Format: Open and Free – Guidelines For Implementation (Justice Yatindra Singh,
High Court, Allahabad, India)
- Policy and Work-Flow Integration: Document Conversion & Data Sharing (Hans W. Dahm,
Federal Foreign Office, Germany)
- ODF Templates In A Large-Scale Migration (Martti Karjalainen, Ministry of Justice, Finland)
- ODF and Open Source Perspectives in the Regional Government of Assam (M.K. Yadava,
Assam Electronics Development Corporation – A Government of Assam Undertaking, India)
Moderator: Andreas Pleschek, Manager of Open Client & Linux Software Group, IBM

15.15-15.30 Coffee Break

15.30-16.45 ODF Deployment – Perspectives from Municipalities
- One Year with OpenOffice.org: Munich's experiences in accessing ODF file contents directly
(Florian Schießl, Landeshauptstadt München, Germany)
- Office Systems Integration & ODF: Reflections from Bristol City Council's experiences since
2005 (Gavin Beckett, Bristol City Council, UK)
- Freiburg's Migration Project (Rüdiger Czieschla & Andreas Kawohl, Freiburg, Germany)
- ODF: A municipal perspective (Horst Braeuner, City of Schwaebisch Hall, Germany)
Moderator: Erwin Tenhumberg, Community Development and Marketing Manager, Sun
Microsystems

16.45-17.00 Summary & Conclusions from Day 1

17.00 End of First Day

19.30 Dinner (on the premises of the German Federal Foreign Office - rooftop restaurant)

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Tuesday, 30 October

8.30-9.00 Arrival of Participants (coffee/light breakfast)

9.00-10.30 ODF & Interoperability

- South Africa's Interoperability Framework (Aslam Raffee, Dept. of Science & Technology,
South Africa)
- Health Record Archive In ODF (Prof. He Yusheng, EHR Standards Steering Committee,
Ministry of Health, China)
- ODF & European Interoperability (Graham Taylor, Chief Executive, Open Forum Europe)
- ODF Learns Arabic and Armenian (Salah Helal, German Embassy Cairo & Susanne Kühnel,
Federal Foreign Office, Germany)
Moderator: Zaheda Bhorat, Manager, Open Source Programs, Google, Inc.

10.30-10.45 Coffee Break

10.45-11.45 ODF Support in the Application Ecosystem
To better meet the needs of governments, this session will examine new and innovative applications
support and use of ODF in novel ways outside of office productivity suites.
Sample Questions for Group Discussion:
- What elements of a document workflow process could support ODF and thereby accelerate
adoption and migration efforts?
- How would support of ODF within different types of software applications help provide
innovative solutions to citizens or government employees?
- What kinds of operations would you like to perform on collections of ODF documents to take
advantage of its unique open and XML-based qualities?
- Are there development tools or other utilities where native support of ODF is necessary or
useful?
- With open and complete document format access, what kinds of new services could you offer to
citizens? (For example, single-window services such as creating on-the-fly custom forms for
multiple purposes - motor vehicle registration, parking permits, etc.)
Moderator: Peter Lord, Director, Technology Policy, Oracle

11.45-12.30 Workshop Summary & Conclusions: Towards the Development
of ODF Deployment Best Practices
- Marino Marcich, Managing Director, ODF Alliance

12.30 End of Workshop