Minutes of Pacific UBL TC call 18|19 August 2008

MINUTES OF PACIFIC UBL TC MEETING
TUESDAY 19 AUGUST 2008

ATTENDANCE

Jon Bosak (chair)

G. Ken Holman

Tim McGrath (vice chair)

NEW CON CALL SYSTEM

It works!  We'll be using this facility from now on.

MINUTES OF THE UBL TC MEETING IN MONTRÉAL

JB: Minutes will be out next week.

STANDING ITEMS

Additions to the calendar:

http://ubl.xml.org/events

TM: Open Standards 08 Conference in Sydney 29-30 October:

http://www.open-standards.com/callforpapers.html

Review of Atlantic call 16 July

No comments.

INTERNATIONAL DATA DICTIONARY

GKH: Have set up a mechanism for collaborative translations on

ubl.xml.org.

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl-dev/200808/msg00008.html

JB: Roberto has expressed interest in something similar.

ACTION: GKH and Roberto to consult on a way to handle existing

partial translations (Hungarian, Lithuanian, Turkish) using the

collaborative mechanism.

TM: Will forward this information to STASIS, a Framework 7

semantic interoperability project

(http://www.stasis-project.net/); they may be interested in

contributing or participating.

UBL WORK SCHEDULE

ACTION (1/8): JB to revise the work schedule spreadsheet.

Pending finalization of the BII schedule.

JB: Hopefully we will know by the end of the BII meeting 10

September.

CUSTOMIZATION GUIDELINES

JB: We made tremendous progress on this; first drafts were

completed by the end of the meeting in Montréal, and TM has now

sent the authors a complete draft.  I will be reviewing it this

week.

GKH: Me too.

TM: Note the caveat about changing some things.  We need a

careful technical review.

UBL 2.1 ISSUES LIST

ACTION (12/18): TM to populate the new issues list with all

currently known UBL 2.1 issues.

TM: Work has begun on updating the list left over from UBL

2.0.  We are already up to about 30 new items.  First draft

possible next week.

UBL TC MEETING IN FREMANTLE 19-23 JANUARY 2009

JB: Finally forwarded the details:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200808/msg00010.html

TM: Expecting GKH and MC, possibly AH.  Would like to organize

a Friday morning workshop for government and possibly a public

event in the afternoon.

GKH: Could do a one-hour UBL overview as in Rome.

TC CONCALL SCHEDULE

Regular schedule for the next couple of months.

OTHER BUSINESS

Congratulations to Andy Schoka on the birth of his fourth

grandchild (his daughter's first)!

Jon Bosak
Chair, OASIS UBL TC