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2007-03-18
Herding OOXenDoug Mahugh was the semi-official photographer at the Open Office XML Developer workshop held in Redmond last week. Here's a group shot of some of us on the first evening.
In a rare orcmid sighting, I met some Microsoft Open Office XML folk and others who came to an OOX workshop in Redmond, March 13-15. I'm not in many pictures because I am usually taking them. In this case, the hostess at the Rockbottom Brewery took a picture of these stragglers with Doug Mahugh’s camera. That's Doug with the moustache, standing near the bright reflection just right of center. On Doug’s right, also at the back, is Wouter van Vugt a trainer from the Netherlands and one of the presenters. Standing in front of Wouter’s right shoulder is Mauricio (“Moe”) Ordonez, Doug’s boss. In front of Mauricio’s right shoulder is Julien Chable, an open-source developer from France. In front of Julien’s right shoulder is Datta from Sonata in Bangalore. Behind Datta’s right shoulder stands bearded Brian Jones. I’m the mouth-agape redshirt off to Brian’s right, and Kevin Boske is somewhere between us, behind Brian’s right shoulder I think. In front of me is Sanjay, also from Sonata. Behind my right shoulder is Leandro Jekimim from Brasil. I’ve learned that the other bearded fellow at the far right is Microsoft blogger Art Leonard. As far as I can tell, The Wraith did not put in an appearance. Doug Mahugh has since added more information and pictures from the workshop. He also used the occasion to conduct three video interviews that are now posted on Channel 9. As an open-source developer, I’m particularly keen on Julien’s Java-based openxml4j project. This fledgling project provide portable access to OOX packages. The classes allow access to OOX documents at a higher-level of abstraction than the raw Zip and XML streams. Wouter’s Package Explorer is also a great tool for developers operating on the .NET platform. (There’s also a GPL’d ExcelPackage project to generate .xlsx packages on a server or in a special-purpose application.) I'm meeting all of these folks for the first time, which may be why I have this Village-of-the-OOXed possessed-zombie look. For a later picture of the bloggers in attendance, I managed to tilt my head in a way that avoided the reflection. I had a great time. For a bonus, Mauricio later gave me some wonderful tips on on flexing my soon-to-beta ODMJNI Java bridge to ODMA into an ODMNET bridge using the same C++ native-code layer with a C++/CLI wrapper in place of Java’s JNI. I can't wait. [update 2007–03–18T20:23Z There are no e’s in “Bangalore,” Dennis. And with any need to update a post, I can’t resist tweaking a phrase or two. update 2007–03–22T19:31Z Tied in to later posts and more information on names.] Comments: Post a Comment |
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