ODF Adoption TC Call - July 18, 2006 - Minutes

Roll Call

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Don Harbison, IBM

Rob Weir, IBM

Martha Mealy, IBM

Erwin Tenhumberg, Sun Microsystems

Gary Edwards, ODF Foundation

Charles Schulz, Ars Arpeta

Louis Suarez-Potts, Individual (OpenOffice.org)

Bo Yan, Beijing Sursen International

J. David Eisenberg, ODF Foundation

Carol Geyer, OASIS

Acceptance of minutes

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The minutes from the meeting on 11th
July 2006 were not balloted due to lack of quorum. Unfortunately, a quorum
was reached later into the meeting time, but due to several members requesting
a shortened meeting no ballot was taken. It is suggested here that the
committee ballot the minutes of July 11 and July 18 during the July 25th
meeting.

OpenOffice.org CON (Charles, Erwin,
Louis...) 

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Charles informed the members that OpenOffice.org
conference planners have determined the agenda and plan to notify the individuals
whose abstracts were accepted in the near future. The agenda will be published
soon on the Web and in parallel, the organizers are working with INSA to
print the conference brochures ahead of the summer vacation period.

An ODF panel/roundtable has been defined
for Wednesday morning, Sep. 13. Details regarding the participants will
be published soon on the OpenOffice.org site.

Novell CIO is speaking on Novell's experience
using OpenOffice across its enterprise.

Google is also speaking although the
subject was not defined. 

Progress on deliverables  ....all

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The committee members were urged to
set deadlines for populating the KnowledgeBase for the new ODF Focus Area
on xml.org. Some members agreed to submit their content by August 4th.

J.David Eisenberg agreed to provide
his developer content. 

A suggestion to use the blog feature
with a rolling 'guest blogger' was discussed. Guest bloggers could focus
on the sub-committee work and discuss it via the blog feature.

ISO/IEC 26300 Publication Schedule -
Gary 

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The publication date is on track and
anticipated in 4 - 6 weeks. No open issues to resolve.

ODF 1.1, 1.2 Roadmap - Gary

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An ODF roadmap was agreed to be content.
The roadmap will clarify the current work topics in the mainline TC and
provide a transaparent way to better understand how the ODF TC continues
to steward the specification moving forward. 

There was a discussion regarding fidelity
in roundtripping contexts. This led to a discussion of the work in the
mainline Metadata SC. Various approaches to extending the ODF specification
for metadata were discussed.

Dhananjay Keskar, a new TC member from
Intel, expressed interest in ODF widgets to make ODF application development
easier. 

The links for developer content on the
ODF Adoption TC will be added to the ODF Focus Area by Erwin.

J.David will contribute additional developer
content to the ODF Focus Area.

The meeting was adjourned at this stage.

Regards,

Don Harbison

Program Director, IBM ODF Initiative

Business & Technical Strategy

IBM Software Group

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