ODF Adoption Technical Committee Meeting Minutes, Meeting of April 4th, 2006

[Alan Milnes <MILNEA@uk.ibm.com>]

ODF Adoption Technical Committee
Meeting Minutes, Meeting of April 4, 2006


Roll Call:
      Peter Lord, Oracle
      Erwin Tenhumberg, Sun Microsystems
      Alan Mines, IBM
      Harm-Jan van Burg, Netherlands Tax and Customs
      Gary Edwards, OpenDocument Foundation
      Charles Schultz, Ars Arperta
      Mary McRae, OASIS


Welcome: Don Harbison welcomed the committee members and thanked them for
joining.


OASIS Website Tour: Mary McRae gave a tour of the OASIS Website and
explained how to use the functions. Some points to note were:-


   The confirmation screen is not very clear so be careful when adding
   items.
   New members must attend 2 meetings in a row before they become voting
   members.
   If you miss 2 meetings in a row you lose voting rights.
   Quorum is 51% of voting members.
   Webmaster roles is needed - Erwin volunteered for this and will carry
   out an initial tidy-up.
   Templates can be found at http://docs.open-oasis.org/templates.
   Minutes will normally be sent in the body of an email.
   Mary will send out the public URI conversion scheme
   Some Ballots can only be administered by oasis staff.

Communications: Carol Geyer was not in attendance so this item was
postponed until next meeting.


Develop Deliverables Plan:
1) Erwin will forward his old white paper for review and possible updating.

2) There was a need for a set of requirements for ODF Conformance to be
defined. These could then be used to form a Test Suite.  It was noted that
applications should be able to read ODF XML, write ODF XML and not
interfere with data from extensions they do not understand. Erwin and Don
would discuss and produce a draft. The committee noted some other work in
this area, especially by Michael Carden, which could be the basis for some
Use Cases.
As well as the Technical work in this area there was a need to monitor the
marketplace and ensure Applications advertised as ODF compliant actually
were.


Meeting Adjourned