OIC TC 2012-04-03 Meeting Minutes

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

OIC COORDINATION CALL
Date:  Wednesday 3 April 2013
Time:  13:30 - 14:20 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/201304/msg00000.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 4/5 voting members present did satisfy the 3/5 quorum requirement for start of the meeting. 

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

     [* = Voting Member at start of meeting (4)
      + = becoming Voting Member at conclusion of meeting (1)
      = = Persistent Non-Voting Member (0)]
 
    OBSERVERS IN ATTENDANCE
      Regina Henschel, The Document Foundation

	  
1.2 PREVIOUS MEETING MINUTES

The previous Meetings Minutes are approved.
- https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/oic/201303/msg00008.html

Louis explains the gist of his mail concerning the (long) list of Members Absent.
This list is currently present at the start of each Meeting Minutes.
Louis thinks this may give a wrong impression, e.g. that the members listed
are not interested in ODF anymore (while they just may lack the time to dial in).
Other Members may have a new assignment, or may have moved to another company.

Bart will read the OASIS TC policy to check if such a list must be part of the Minutes,
he assumes that providing a list of Members in Attendance is sufficient.
If that is indeed the case, he will remove the list of Members Absent.
He will send a friendly mail to the Members to remind them about the TC Membership,
but also emphasizes that all Members are free to join the calls as much (or as little)
as they want / can.


1.3 TODAY'S AGENDA

The agenda is approved.
- https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/oic/201304/msg00000.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.
  #0051 Check advisory 00005. Work in progress.


3. DELIVERABLES / TEST CASES

3.1 Second "State of Interoperability" Report

Chris mentions that John has reviewed the latest working draft, and Chris will send the
remarks to the mailing list.
While most comments are only editorial, there is a remark about listing the lack of cloud
implementations as an interoperability issue: is this really an interoperability issue,
or rather a market adoption issue ?

Bart wants to finish editing the draft by May 1st: without a deadline, the report may be in
Draft status indefinitely.


3.2 Other Interop Advisories

Bart asks if there are other interoperability issues that may require an Interop Advisory,
for instance: change tracking.

Louis wonders what the impact of external change tracking tools is (e.g. cloud-based
versioning system), and if implementing change tracking in ODF is a programming or a
specification challenge.

Peter states that his team mainly encountered programming challenges, although they have
now come to a point where specification issues may arise.

The team is also working on a library, and Peter will probably be able to discuss this
in more detail next month.
Louis is very interested, and thinks it might be useful for other OASIS TCs as well,
e.g. standardization of subprotocols for document storage.


4. ROUND TABLE

Louis mentions the upcoming FISL event in Brazil, he will send more details to the TC list.

Bart has no news on a next ODF Plugfest: the plugfest wiki does contain several suggestions,
but no real commitments from (local) organizers.
Louis suggests organizing a plugfest in Brazil, because the Brazilian government is probably
the largest government supporting ODF in the world.

Dennis invites Regina to update her OIC TC Observer status to Member status.


5. FUTURE MEETING PLANNING

Due to another meeting, Bart will not be able to chair the conference call on April 17th.

Dennis suggests to organize a conference call on Tuesday, April 16th instead.
No-one objects, so the next call will be on Tuesday April 16th, starting at 13:30 UTC.

The May 1st meeting will be cancelled, it is a public holiday in many European countries.