As much as I appreciate Robin's opinions in matter such as this, I'd like to
stick with "InterOp".
Robin's thoughtful arguments to the contrary deserve a thoughtful rebuttal from
me, however, I am simply too swamped right now to provide one.
Carol
Original Message-----
From: Dee Schur [mailto:dee.schur@oasis-open.org]
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 8:20 AM
To: 'Robin Cover'; 'Carol Cosgrove-Sacks'
Cc: 'Pim van der Eijk'; 'Staff'
Subject: RE: [staff] OpenDocument quick comments, and ShowCase events
If you think it is clearer to stick with OASIS Interoperability Event, that
is fine with me.
Dee
Original Message-----
From: Robin Cover [mailto:robin@oasis-open.org]
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 11:24 AM
To: Carol Cosgrove-Sacks
Cc: Dee Schur; 'Pim van der Eijk'; 'Staff'
Subject: Re: [staff] OpenDocument quick comments, and ShowCase events
I'm not sure how to address this question without hurting someone's
feelings... let me just remind you all that I am pure
Sweetness and Light, Your Humble Servant, Gentle Man of Kind Words,
and Always Giddy with Delight at New Branding Ideas... I never
hurt a flea...
So, Carol says "Interop Event", which seems plausible as a
short locution for "Interoperability Event". However, I would
have found it distracting, cheesy, and otherwise disconcerting
if she had also said "ShowCase Event."
My petition here is that when spelling innovations are being
floated that involve camel-casing of normal English words -- can
we please have a Staff discussion about it?
I would likely never be inclined to attend an "InterOp" event
unless I kew personally that the hosts, sponsors, and organizers
were class act. The word "interoperability" might be
shortened in-house to "interop," but what's the justification
for breaking it up into morphemes and (sic!) camelCasing the parts?
I cringe every time I see it. Why not InTerOp?
The general practice of using camel case for joining two independent
words is common: "open" and "document" might become OpenDocument.
However, "inter" and "op" are not two independent words.
Camel Case is of course well known in the world of computing
and in any related fields where juncture needs to be marked
by some orthographic feature (typically, hyphen or case-change
to replace SPACE as juncture marker):
http://xml.coverpages.org/camelCase.html
In personal names, we commonly use hyphen (Cosgrove-Sacks),
but I never see camel case (CosgroveSacks).
Summary: Personally, I would like to see more careful and
broad considerations given for orthographic innovations
used as marketing strategems: I don't find it compelling,
but highly distracting.
Thanks,
Robin
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On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Carol Cosgrove-Sacks wrote:
> Hi Dee,
>
> I think the idea of an Interop Event is good.
>
> I don't know about the TC. But I recall that CEN is planning to do some
> work around ODF - does anyone think it could be useful to suggest an
> activity together?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Carol
> Dee Schur wrote:
>
> >Carol/Pim,
> >What do you think about me approaching ODF Adoption TC about organizing
an
> >OASIS InterOp/Showcase/presentation for the Barcelona event, that way we
> >could add a full day of content? Don't we have 5-6 governments actively
> >using ODF; are these folks represented on the TC?
> >We might even think about a webinar prior to the InterOp to draw
attention
> >to the event?
> >Thanks for following this. Was there a conversation about a PDF/A
> >subcommittee? If not, who is responsible for suggesting new work to an
OASIS
> >TC?
> >Thanks!
> >Dee
> >
> >
Original Message-----
> >From: Pim van der Eijk [mailto:pim.vandereijk@oasis-open.org]
> >Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 6:59 AM
> >To: 'Staff'
> >Subject: [staff] OpenDocument quick comments
> >
> >
> >Interesting information, and copies of presentations of an event on open
> >document exchange formats organized by the German government:
> >http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/6474
> >
> >Couple of quick notes:
> >- The organizing Ministry is very skeptical about renewing their
> >membership, but they do organize this event.
> >Somehow OpenDocument's success isn't really associated with OASIS? There
> >aren't a lot of government members in ODF Adoption TC.
> >- There are various references to conformance in the presentations.
> >- Interesting presentation about OpenDocument archival via PDF/A. Just
> >like "PDF/A" is a subset of "PDF", I could imagine an ODF/A. You don't
want
> >all ODF features used in an archived ODF document. I guess we should be
able
> >to find a couple of people to start a sub-committee on this? And invite
> >various national archives to join.
> >- OpenOffice has its next event in Barcelona in September 2007. Could
we
> >do some side event for OASIS DocHead members?
> >http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2007/
> >
> >Pim
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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