Open Seminar - Are Standards & OpenSource the Silver Bullet? (Svante Schubert)

When: 13:15-14:15

Registration: The number of seats is limited. Registration in advance is required. Please register for this event by sending an email with subject "Open Seminar" containing your name and affiliation to this email address by latest on 4 June. 

Room: Insikten, Portalen, Kanikegränd 3A, Skövde.

Title: Are Standards & OpenSource the Silver Bullet? (13:15-14:15, Svante Schubert)

Abstract: Providing a quick introduction to the world of OpenSource and Standards. Provide suggestions where they come from, how they evolved and by showing up tendencies and side-effects, what the future might bring.

BIO: Svante is working on the Open Document Format.  For twelve years he Svante Schubertworked for Sun Microsystems in the field of standardization, most recently as a freelance developer. Among other things, he was .. * Representatives from Sun / Oracle in DIN ISO SC34. * Responsible for collaboration in the browser-basedWebODF office suite. * Management of the Java API for ODF Toolkit ODFDOM * Management of the OpenOffice.org XML, responsible for the XML transformations * Developer of XHTML transformation for the ODF specification * Co-author on the ODF 1.2 Metadata specification of the Open Document Format * Representatives from Sun / Oracle in the W3C Compound Document Format

Part II: Interactive Workshop on Sustainable Open Standards and OSS ecosystems

When: 14:15-15:45

Coffee (14:15-14:30) Discussion (14:30-15:45)

Participation: By invitation only.

Room: Insikten, Portalen, Kanikegränd 3A, Skövde.

The interactive workshop will focus on challenges addressed by the ORIOS project, and discussions will be moderated by ORIOS-partners.