OpenDocument TC Meeting Minutes 2005-04-04

[Lars Oppermann <Lars.Oppermann@Sun.COM>]

MINUTES OF THE OASIS OPENDOCUMENT TC MEETING
2005-04-04 3PM GMT – 4PM GMT

Attendees
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Michael Brauer <michael.brauer@sun.com>, Sun Microsystems
Lars Oppermann <lars.oppermann@sun.com>, Sun Microsystems
Gary Edwards <garyedwards@yahoo.com>
David Faure <faure@kde.org>
Tom Magliery <tom.magliery@blastradius.com>, Blast Readius
Patrick Durusau <Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org>, SBL

Acceptance of Minutes of 2005-03-21
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- The attending TC members unanimously accepted the minutes.


Action Items
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Lars: clarify mimetype registration with OASIS staff contact
    - in progress


Status of OpenDocuemnt spec.
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Submitted to OASIS for approval as an OASIS Standard
Ballot will begin 2005-04-16


TC Discussion
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ISO:
Michael will contact David Mason again, to start coordinating for ISO 
submission

Conformance:
Using the OASIS model would make it impossible for 
free-software/opensource implementations to become conformant, since 
fees would have to be paid for conformance verification.
The TC thinks, that conformance should be handled in the following way:
- The TC defines the conformance rules
- A SubCommittee is to be created, which refines those rules and enables 
3rd parties to test compliance. This SC should also be chartered to 
drive general adoption of OpenDocument and conforming applications.
- community driven projects (e.g. KOffice, OpenOffice.org) should report 
conformance problems with 3rd parties to the TC, and the TC will try to 
resolve those conformance problems with those parties.
- All TC members should try to recruit members for such a new SC


New action items
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All: recruit members for conformance/marketing TC (until 2005-04-25)

Next conference call
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Monday, 2005-04-11 3PM GST

Lars Oppermann