Re: [office] Proposal for Advanced Document CollaborationSubcommittee & Electronic Ballot Motion

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Second the motion to create the "Advanced Document Collaboration"
subcommittee. 

Hope everyone is having a great day!

Patrick

On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 08:43 -0500, robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote:
> Here is the revised SC proposal.
> 
> 1) I've proposed Robin LaFontaine as chair
> 
> 2) I've removed the deadline for the delivery of the change tracking 
> proposal.
> 
> 3) I've clarified that change tracking is the "initial and highest 
> priority" for the SC
> 
> I hope these changes accommodate some of the concerns with the initial 
> proposal.
> 
> Approval of a SC requires a resolution approved by the majority of voting 
> members on the TC.  We also have a standing rule that permits members to 
> request an electronic ballot once a motion has been made and seconded on 
> the list.
> 
> So, I move that the TC create an "Advanced Document Collaboration" 
> subcommittee as described below.  As soon as someone seconds the motion on 
> the list we can initiate the 7-day ballot.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -Rob
> 
> 
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> 
> Name
> ----
> Advanced Document Collaboration Subcommittee (slug = office-collab)
> 
> 
> Statement of Purpose
> --------------------
> 
> Many ODF documents do not involve collaboration.  They are created by a 
> single user, edited by a single user, and then perhaps presented or shared 
> with multiple users, or maybe even just converted to PDF for distribution.
> 
> However, collaboration-based document scenarios are also common, including 
> review and comment, change tracking as well as emerging work in real-time 
> collaborative editing, in-context document collaboration, persistence of 
> structured document fragments, and so on.
> 
> In order to bring together technical experts in these areas, and for them 
> to evaluate trends, investigate opportunities and draft enhancements to 
> ODF in these areas, we are proposing a dedicated subcommittee for this 
> topic.
> 
> The initial and highest priority for the Subcommittee will be change 
> tracking.  Reliable and user friendly revision management is critical for 
> professional document workflows in corporate and public sector 
> environments, and as such an important feature of Open Document Format. 
> The SC is asked to prepare a draft specification of a markup vocabulary 
> that can accurately describe any incremental change to the content and 
> structure of documents - typically made in multiple editing sessions by 
> different authors.
> 
> 
> List of Deliverables
> --------------------
> 
> 1. A draft specification for change tracking, including Relax NG schema
> 
> 2. A description on how to apply change tracking markup to the various 
> versions of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) as a host format.
> 
> 3. A set of test documents that will allow implementers to validate their 
> change tracking implementations.
> 
> 4. A document that describes in detail how the existing change tracking 
> mechanism in ODF can be converted to the new markup.
> 
> 5. Other proposals, draft specifications and in-scope work related to the 
> subcommittee's Purpose.
> 
> 
> Chairs
> -----
> 
> Robin LaFontaine
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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