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Subject: Minutes from May 10 Mtg
- From: Martha J Mealy <mealym@us.ibm.com>
- To: odf-adoption@lists.oasis-open.org
- Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 09:54:24 -0700
Hello all,
Here are the minutes from the face to face meeting in San Francisco last
week. All comments, additions, edits are welcome.
ODF Adoption TC - May 10 Mtg Minutes
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present:
Don Harbison, IBM, co chair
Erwin Tenhumberg, Sun, co-chair
Peter Lord, Oracle
Nathaniel Borenstein, IBM - ODF technical
committee member,
Roger Hurwitz, Intel
Alan Clark, Novell
Martha Mealy, IBM
Scott Mace (sp?) - observer from press
working on book on open standards
Carol Geyer - Director of Communications,
OASIS
Peter Rhodin and Mary McRae also stopped
by
1) Minutes were reviewed and accepted
from May 2 meeting
2) UOF XML emerging out of China
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OUF is an OpenOffice format merged with
OpenXML making it incompatible with either. (Erwin)
How relevant is this to our ODF effort?
ACTION: Roger Hurvitz and Nathaniel
will request an update from Intel and IBM contacts in China
3) Review the subcommittee charter
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Does it overlap with the ODF Alliance?
Our audience is more the technical audience
with the objective, both technical policy and management as well as developers.
While no need was found at this time to amend the charter officially,
we would like the minutes to show that our focus in more on the technical
audience.
Several points were made on what we
must do to foster and build the visibility of this audience.
a) enable and training them. Build
on the work of J David Eisenberg "ODF Essentials"
b) provide compelling businesses cases
and support for implementing ODF (ISV and developer community)
c) encourage the building of development
resources for ODF.
Roger brought up the effort of Microsoft
to build a developer community around OpenXML
http://openxmldeveloper.org/default.aspx
We too need to provide a clearinghouse
of information, AND encourage more activity and community building - offering
tooling, widgets, programming interfaces, ideally a DOM to develop against.
Several questions were discussed related
to this topic:
** Does our committee have the membership
and charter to identify the gap in toolings, etc for the development community
and see that it is filled?
There is some work at IBM to help fill
this gap and Gary Edwards' plugin to read and write from MS Office to ODF.
** Where do we collect these development
resources to match the visibility of OpenXML that Microsoft is out to capture?
create a forum on xml.org?
create a developers site at Apache.org?
xml.org? IBM or Sun.com?
It was agreed that it is better that
we demonstrate that several vendors are behind this so have it be under
the banner of Apache or XML. We should also use the wikipedia site
to list resources
** Is it the work of this subcommittee
to CREATE an SDK? Will we run into the same roadblocks surrounding
the creation of conformance testing? Should another subcommittee be generated
to support ODF developers? If we do that, what will be the role of
this subcommittee?
It was agreed to that we should first
map the gaps in what is needed to foster and support an ODF development
community
ACTION: Alan Clark was going to do a
comparison of the resources on openxmldeveloper.org and identify the gap
in ODF resources.
Other related subcommittee discussion
points:
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3b) Need more internat'l representation
on the subcommittee
ACTION: Peter Rhodin will take on the
role of recruiter for us if we want broader representation.
3c) need to reach out to other vertical
groups such as ACCOR (Insurance industry) and the work with xForms and
ODF in the creation, storage, retrieval, and reuse of documents.
no action assigned
4) Collateral
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a) Erwin will submit an abstract to
present on ODF at the OASIS Open Standards Days in Germany next fall.
His presentation could be the start of materials we make available
on OASIS site to promote the visibility of ODF. It will be our intent
not to infuse ODF materials with product information. We also need
to update the existing OASIS datasheet on ODF and an presentation with
short introduction (~6 slides) followed by various sections that could
be used depending on the audience. Need to make sure there is a
very clear call to action for each section. These materials would
be made available in an online along with a speakers database.
Action: Erwin to submit proposal to
conference
Action: Alan, Peter, Martha agreed to
send ODF materials (presentations) to Erwin.
Action: Carol Geyer to send usage guidelines
for slides and presentations made available thru OASIS.
b) Proposal to create a link on our
Adoption TC website for the request of speakers. We would handle
the requests initially and grow as volume increases. Could
ask people who use the resources and translate for non-English events,
that they provide us with the translated version.
c) whitepaper
Create a Wiki for our purposes in contributing
to and editing the whitepaper content
Action: Martha to request a Wiki for
our group (Done - all should have received a link from Mary McRae) This
Wiki is public to read and only editable by members.
Topics for whitepaper
Break the whitepaper up into 3 pieces:
>>>) Part 1: ODF overview and
benefits: concise piece covering the business and technical case for ODF
What is ODF
Where did it come from
Where is it today
Where is it going - focus
on nontraditional thoughts about ODF here taking thinking beyond the desktop
and into content management, workflow, search, underlying open standard
business processes
Need to collect the various existing
writing about ODF: Wikipedia, Sun's ODF paper, etc
ACTION: Martha to collect existing
resources
Related point: Wikipedia ODF entry
- we need to continue to make sure this entry stays accurate.
ACTION: Don H to make sure the existing
ODF entry in Wikipedia is accurate.
>>>) Part 2: Adoption and Implementation
of, Migration to ODF
>>>) Part 3: Developers'
Guide
How do I implement ODF
in applications
How do I innovate with
ODF
Need to create these rather quickly
given the short window before Vista hits the market and the aggressive
activities of MS to build OpenXML developer community.
Initial focus will be on the first paper.
Need to make sure we get input from organizations with experience
implementing ODF.
ACTION: While Martha collects and summarizes
history, Erwin works on the benefits working with input from Gary Edwards
given his recent work on the plug-in MS-ODF converter.
5) Media Relations Plan / Calendar
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Carol Geyer: can only issue press releases
on our committee's progress.
If we want to do joint releases with
ODF Alliance as an example, we need to drive this from our organizations
and keep Carol in the loop. We can use events for timing major announcements,
such as timing a ODF announcement with the OpenOffice.org symposium.
Consider announcement around accessibility with statements from Royal Society
for the Blind.
Mtg adjourned at 4:45pm
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Martha J. Mealy
Strategic Marketing for Lotus Software - Industrial Sector
IBM Software Group
mealym@us.ibm.com
office phone: (503) 342-5519
mobile phone: (503) 720-7963
office: Portland, Oregon
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