OIC TC 2010-10-20 Meeting Minutes

["Dennis E. Hamilton" <dennis.hamilton@acm.org>]

OIC COORDINATION CALL
Date:  Wednesday 20 October 2010
Time:  13:30 - 14:30 UT

1. LOGISTICS
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The chat room: <http://webconf.soaphub.org/conf/room/oic>
 (doesn't count for attendance)

The call-in numbers: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/oic/200903/msg00017.html>
Meeting agendas also provide the pass codes and the call-in numbers:
<http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/oic/201010/msg00028.html>


The action items (log-in required):
<http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/oic/members/action_items.php>


1.1 ROLL CALL AND QUORUM CHECK
8 of 10 Voting members attended, satisfying the 6 of 10 requirement for a quorum.

    MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE

    * Bart Hanssens, Fedict (Chair)
    * Mingfei Jia, IBM
    * Robert Weir, IBM
    * Andreas Guelzow, Individual
    * Dennis Hamilton, Individual (Secretary)
    * Cherie Ekholm, Microsoft 
    * Bernd Eilers, Oracle Corporation 
    * Louis Suarez-Potts, Oracle Corporation

      [* = Voting Member at start of meeting (8)
       + = becoming Voting Member at conclusion of meeting (0)
       = = Persistent Non-Voting Member (0)]

    MEMBERS ABSENT

      Charles Schulz, Ars Aperta
      Alex Wang, Beijing Sursen International 
      Jeremy Allison, Google Inc.
    * Don Harbison, IBM
      Peter Junge, Individual
      Doug Mahugh, Microsoft
      Eric Patterson, Microsoft
      Alan Clark, Novell
    = Michael Brauer, Oracle Corporation
      Daniel Rentz, Oracle Corporation
    * Andrew Rist, Oracle
    = Svante Schubert, Oracle Corporation
      Tom Rabon, Red Hat
      Jerry Smith, US Department of Defense

      [* = Voting Member at start and end of meeting (2)
       - = Voting Member becoming non-voting Member at end of meeting (0)
       = = Persistent Non-Voting Member (2)]

1.2 ACCEPTANCE OF PREVIOUS MEETING MINUTES

Minutes for the 2010-10-06 Meeting, approved without objection 
 <http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/oic/201010/msg00025.html>


1.3 ACCEPTANCE OF TODAY'S AGENDA: approved with introduction of State of Interoperability topic added after the Action Items.
 <http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/oic/201010/msg00028.html>


2. STATUS OF ACTION ITEMS

  #0015 Template Scenarios.  No progress.
  #0026 Test Scenarios: Released to Plugfest; working on license for release to OASIS and OIC TC.
  #0033 Best Practices for Document Authors.  This will be done as an OASIS Committee Note, with a draft targeted for the end of November.
  #0034 Interop Demo Videos.  In progress, with ongoing effort to track down the videos and their status from the Demo.
  #0038 Clean OTT specification template.  CLOSED.  There are new templates from the TC Administrator and we should exercise those to see if our difficulties have disappeared.
  #0041 Battery of Conformance Assessment Probes. Dennis has made no progress.  Rob has some to expand for OpenFormula that were tried at the Plugfest.  Work in progress.

3. STATE OF INTEROPERABILITY PUBLIC REVIEW
   The Public Review has started, ending November 4.
   There are some unprocessed issues in JIRA that apparently just need to be cleaned up.  Only one is new.  We updated the resolution status of two issues, have one to have its resolution added, and have one new issue from the public comment received in the current Public Review already.
   Our intention is to take the current State of Interoperability report to Committee Specification once there are no changes resulting from Public Review comments.  Further editions can be published as OASIS Committee Notes.

4. INTEROP ADVISORIES
   There are no new advisories at this point.  
   We revisited the discussion on preview images and also situations where a documents files are updated in a way that obsoletes some components (such as alternate renditions) but leaves them unchanged.

4 ODF PLUGFEST (October, Brussels)
  <http://www.odfplugfest.be/>
  Bart reported that the ODF Plugfest went very well.  
  Bart is working on a brochure with a list of different implementations.
  There were issues encountered with implementations of YEARFRAC, Digital Signatures, etc.
  Few bugs were found, although the KOffice folks were busy looking into documents and code.
  The Microsoft Test Documents were very useful.
  Use of ODF in Collaboration Suites, such as AbiCollab, was a topic.  Bart doesn't think there is anything there for OIC attention though.
  There were also discussions of libraries, use of RDF, and other provisions.
  Somme presents covered converters, metadata, etc.
  Although not a great number of features were tested, there was terrific value in having these diverse members of the developer community together in a single setting.
  A 2011 Plugfest is being discussed for Europe: UK, Germany, or Denmark likely candidates

5. ROUND TABLE

Other events were discussed.

There are SC34 Working Groups meeting in Beijing in December.  
There is also a Beijing meeting on documents from 2010-12-10 to 2010-12-12.  That will have ISO experts too.
There is also an upcoming Oracle OpenWorld that may provide an ODF-related opportunity. 
Rob reported on the crunch to resolve issues in ODF 1.2 in the march toward a CD06 for the next Public Review.  It is important now not to introduce errors as part of attempting to resolve issues.

With regard to organizing something in Beijing in mid-December, we only know of Andrew Rist and Mingfei Jia that will be there.

In March 2011, there will be a JTC1 SC34 Plenary, with WG meetings, in Prague.


6. FUTURE MEETING PLANNING

The next meeting is on 2010-11-03.  Bart proposes to keep North American local time constant, so this meeting will still be from 1330Z to 1430Z.

After 2010-11-06, North American local time offsets will be to one hour earlier, so the GMT time will be changed to 1430Z to 1530Z in compensation. 

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Respectfully submitted,

  Dennis E. Hamilton, OIC TC Secretary