The agenda for the December 14 meeting, "An Open Forum on the Future of Electronic Data Formats for the Commonwealth," the Hart public meeting, has now been distributed to interested parties. It's in .doc format, natch. Sigh. Some of the Massachusetts senators really do think the whole world uses Microsoft. Thanks to OpenOffice.org, I was able to read it anyway, even though I don't use Microsoft's Word. There is life without Microsoft.
Anyway, here is the agenda. The panel looks great. I'm not sure it will do any good, if the fix is in, but it should be a wonderful meeting, with more balance than was apparent at the last one. I really wish I could go. Happily, I think it's going to be taped by Dan Bricklin, so we will all get to "go".
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An Open Forum on the
Future of Electronic Data Formats for the CommonwealthDecember 14, 2005
10:00 AM – Noon
Senate Reading Room, State HouseHosted 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 Remarks10:05 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 School10:25 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’s Office10:45 Moderated Panel Discussion
Noon Adjourn