Oliver Bell’s Weblog

Doug Mahugh is carrying an announcement of the next in the series of workshops that we’re running in Redmond to support the Document Interoperability Initiative, this time looking at OpenXML Implementation and Interoperability.

The workshop will be held on the Microsoft Redmond Campus on the 24th and 25th October. I managed to attend the last one, which covered ODF and Office SP2, and it was a great opportunity to talk directly with the product groups about what they’re doing in this area.

Doug talks a about why we’re doing this and how to sign up if you are interested, as with the last DII workshop it is open to anybody who wants to attend.

We heard from some of the attendees of the July workshop that they’d like to see a similar event around Open XML interop, and that’s why we’re doing this event. It will be in Redmond again because that’s the only way we can realistically get multiple Office PMs involved, and attendees of the July event found the direct interaction with our technical experts to be very useful. This workshop is not restricted to Open XML interop (and certainly not just to our own implementation of Open XML), however, so any other document interop topics can be added to the agenda, time permitting.

Like the last workshop, this is a free event that is part of the Document Interoperability Initiative, and the goal is to share information with the developer community and solicit feedback on how we can work together to improve interoperability. To register for the event, send me your name, email, and company/organization via this contact form, and we’ll follow up with more details including hotel recommendations and related information.

He also mentions that the date is the Thursday and Friday before PDC in LA, which will make it easier for PDC attendees to join this session.