The seventh ODF plugfest will take place in Gouda on November 17/18th, and will be hosted by the Dutch Netherlands in Open Connection government programme, the OpenDoc Society and the Dutch ODF government usergroup

The ODF plugfest's are an ongoing series of vendor-neutral events, bringing together implementers and stakeholders of the standard. The goal is to achieve maximum interoperability by running scenario-based tests in a hands-on manner and discuss new and proposed features of the ODF specification.

Lead architects from commercial and open source products, members of the OASIS ODF TC's and technical experts from national and regional governments will be present. Previous plugfests were held at The Hague (Netherlands), Orvieto (Italy), Granada (Spain), Brussels (Belgium) and Maidenhead (UK).