OIC TC 2013-02-20 Meeting Minutes

[Hanssens Bart <Bart.Hanssens@fedict.be>]

OIC COORDINATION CALL
Date:  Wednesday 20 February 2013
Time:  14:35 - 15:15 UTC

 
1. LOGISTICS

The chat room: http://webconf.soaphub.org/conf/room/oic
(doesn't count for attendance) 
 
The call-in numbers: 
https://www.teleconference.att.com/servlet/glbAccess?process=1&accessCode=84367726&accessNumber=2158616239
 
Meeting agenda also provides the pass codes and the commonly-used call-in numbers
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/oic/201302/msg00008.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

The 2/2 voting members present did satisfy the 2/2 quorum requirement for start of the meeting. 

    MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE
    * Bart Hanssens, Fedict (Chair)
    * Andreas Guelzow, Individual
    + Dennis Hamilton, Individual
    + Louis Suarez-Potts, Individual
       Péter Rakyta, MultiRacio

     [* = Voting Member at start of meeting (2)
       + = becoming Voting Member at conclusion of meeting (2)
       = = Persistent Non-Voting Member (0)]
 
    MEMBERS ABSENT
      Charles Schulz, Ars Aperta
      Peter Junge, Beijing Sursen International
      Alex Wang, Beijing Sursen International 
      Jeremy Allison, Google Inc.
      Don Harbison, IBM
      Mingfei Jia, IBM
      Rob Weir, IBM
      Zhun Guo, Individual
      Svante Schubert, Individual
      Cherie Ekholm, Microsoft
      John Haug, Microsoft
      Doug Mahugh, Microsoft
      Eric Patterson, Microsoft
      Chris Rae, Microsoft
      Kazmer Koleszar, MultiRacio
      Suresh Chande, Nokia
      Thorsten Behrens, Novell
      Alan Clark, Novell
      Sven Jacobi, Oracle
      Andrew Rist, Oracle
      Jerry Smith, US Department of Defense

      [* = Voting Member at start and end of meeting (0)
       - = Voting Member becoming non-voting Member at end of meeting (0)
       = = Persistent Non-Voting Member (0)
       ! = Voting Member on leave-of-absence through the specified date (0)
         ]
 
1.2 PREVIOUS MEETING MINUTES

The previous Meetings Minutes are approved without comments.
- https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/oic/201302/msg00007.html


1.3 TODAY'S AGENDA

The agenda is approved.
- https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/oic/201302/msg00008.html


2. STATUS OF ACTION ITEMS

  #0015 Template Scenarios.  Work in progress.
  #0041 Battery of ODF 1.2 Assessment Documents.  No report.
  #0044 Split up Advisory 00002.  Work in progress.
  #0046 Update Advisory 00007.  Work in progress.
  #0047 Confirmation of Advisory 00008 test documents. Work in progress.

Dennis mentions that the Apache ODF Toolkit is about to release a new version.
This new version may have support for ODF signatures.

  #0051 Check advisory 00005. Work in progress.


3. DELIVERABLES / TEST CASES

3.1 Second "State of Interoperability" Report

Bart has uploaded a new working draft of the "2nd State of Interoperability" report.
The 3rd draft includes some extra information and a list of contributors.
Bart asks the TC Members to send a mail if they want their name to be added to this list of contributors.
- https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/oic/document.php?document_id=48318

Bart would like to have more feedback, but reminds the Members that - per OASIS IPR policy - comments from
non-TC Members can only be used if they are sent to the OASIS OIC TC comment mailing list.
This may or may not apply to non-standards work such as a Committee Note, but it is better to be safe than sorry.

Louis is not too fond of crowd-sourcing for updating the interoperability report.
Collecting feedback from vendors / implementors that are Member of the ODF / OIC TC is much more interesting.
Dennis suggests that the OASIS Open Document site may be used as a neutral forum to collect and work on comments,
before sending them to the OIC TC.
- http://opendocument.xml.org/

Louis thinks that the report should include a visually appealing overview of interop issues being resolved. 
Bart will try to come up with something in the next working draft, although it will be coarse-grained.
For instance: "open formula in ODF 1.2", "change tracking in 1.3"...


3.2 Other Interop Advisories

* Dennis is working on an update of the recommendation in Advisory 6, as the ODF TC is processing a JIRA ticket.
An update on Advisory 9 is also in the works.
- https://wiki.oasis-open.org/oic/InteropAdvisories

* Andreas is looking into the ODF 1.2 specification . More specifically, the part(s) about custom shapes.
But so far no Advisory is to be drafted.


4. ROUND TABLE

* Bart announces that the Portuguese ODF Plugfest (March 2013) has been cancelled, due to logistic issues and
difficulties of fitting the ODF event into the general Youth-and-IT event organized by the local government. 
He has no news regarding a new location / date for the next ODF Plugfest.

* Louis states that there are various events coming up, like CeBIT, where ODF interoperability can be pitched.
Dennis mentions the Apache Conference, and says that Google Summer of Code is now accepting proposals.
Louis asks Dennis if he can send a short note on the latter, this would also be useful for the ODF Adoption TC.

* No further comments from Peter or Andreas.


5. FUTURE MEETING PLANNING

The next call will be on March 6th, 14:30 UTC.