State house meeting on Open Document

[dan at geer.org]

I'm attending this; will report back if worth when
able assuming there is anything to report...

--dan

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                           An Open Forum on the 
           Future of Electronic Data Formats for the Commonwealth
                             December 14, 2005
                              10:00 AM -- Noon
                      Senate Reading Room, State House

   Hosted by:  Joint Committee on Economic Development and
                           Emerging Technologies,
                  Sen. Jack Hart & Rep. Dan Bosley, Chairs
                                     &
                      The Science & Technology Caucus,
    Sen. Jack Hart, Rep. Cory Atkins, & Secretary Ranch Kimball, Chairs


                                   AGENDA

   10:00     Welcome and Introductory Remarks

   10:05     Open Standards and the Evolution of the OpenDocument
             Standard:  How did we get here?
                 John Palfrey, Executive Director 
                 Berkman Center on Internet and Society 
                 Harvard Law School 
   10:25    Introduction of Panelists
                 Bob Sutor, IBM 
                 Alan Yates, Microsoft General Manager of Information Worker
                     Business Strategy
                 Peter Quinn/Linda Hamel, ITD 
                 Bob Sproull, Sun Microsystems   
                 Judy Brewer, Web Accessibility Initiative, W3C  
                 Alan Cote, Secretary of State)Bâs Office 

   10:45    Moderated Panel Discussion

   Noon     Adjourn


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