OpenDocument TC Meeting Minutes 2005-06-27

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

Attendees
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Gary Edwards <garyedwards@yahoo.com>
Lars Oppermann <lars.oppermann@sun.com>, Sun Microsystems
Tom Magliery <tom.magliery@blastradius.com>, Blast Readius
Florian Reuter <florian.reuter@sun.com>, Sun Microsystems
Patrick Durusau <Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org>,
    Society of Biblical Literature
David Faure <faure@kde.org>

Conf-Call chaired by Lars Oppermann

Acceptance of Minutes from 2005-06-27
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- The attending TC members unanimously accepted the minutes.


Action Items
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Florian: post some examples for conformance testing
	- ongoing, see discussion	


Status of OpenDocument specification
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- no status update -


General Discussion
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Duane will give an overview of XMP metadata technology next week or the 
week after that.

On conformance, Florian outlined a possible model as a starting point 
for discussuin. Conformance would therein be gauged by a list, that 
expresses, for every feature of OpenDocuemnt, whether an application is 
implementing it on a "content only", "structural" or "style" level, 
where each level implies the previous. Problems that were seen during 
the discussion were, that such a list would be very lengthy and of 
limited use to the casual user selecting an application. Furthermore, it 
cannot be said, how exactly each feature is to be rendered in every 
situation, so visual or "style" conformance would be hard to judge.
Lasr suggested, that XSL-FO might be used to describe the rendering of 
each feature, the usefullness and maintainability of such an effort 
however remains questionable.
A general issue that was derived from the discussion, is the question on 
how layout and visual presentaion are relevant for the work of the TC 
(and whether they are at all).


New Action Items
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- none -


Next conference call
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2005-07-04 3PM GMT – 4:00PM GMT


Lars Oppermann
OASIS Open Document Format TC secretary