ODF Adoption Technical Committee Meeting Minutes, Meeting of April 11th, 2006

[Alan Milnes <MILNEA@uk.ibm.com>]

ODF Adoption Technical Committee
Meeting Minutes, Meeting of April 11, 2006
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Roll Call
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Alan Mines, IBM
Don Harbison, IBM
Alan Clark, Novell
Carol Geyer, OASIS
Gary Edwards, OpenDocument Foundation
Ryan Singer, OpenDocument Foundation
Peter Lord, Oracle
Erwin Tenhumberg, Sun Microsystems


Minutes of meeting on 4th April 2006
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The minutes were accepted without revision.


Agenda
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The topic of communications was added to the planned Agenda which was
otherwise accepted.


Communications
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Carol Geyer of OASIS outlined various communication polices that the TC
should be aware of. The key points were:-

- There were some issues with using a logo for conformance, for example
there would need to be some legal qualifications added.
- Carol would like to see an ODF Focus Area on xml.org, similar to
http://dita.xml.org. This site can be used for helpful but non-official
information.
- Erwin asked if we could make a planet from the various blogs discussing
ODF. This appeared to be possible.
- Sponsors could have their logo on the site for $5,000 per annum.
- Press Releases are handled by OASIS and are generally only used for
significant announcements. Media Releases can be issued for lesser items.
- Carol advised that TC Members attending the meeting in San Francisco
don't need to attend the whole symposium. Sponsor companies have a free
pass so that might be available.
- At this point we confirmed that there should be a quorum for this face to
face meeting.
- Carol suggested that a White Paper could be broken into component parts
and used on the Focus Area.

At this point Carol left the meeting.


Conformance
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Gary outlined some of the issues and agreed to distribute his notes so that
we could all understand the problems.
The ODF Spec Section 1.5 has a definition of conformance.
Erwin reported that he has invited Waldo Bastian of INTEL to address a
future meeting  on the subject of Test Suites.


White Paper
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Erwin asked for feedback on what should be included in the updated White
Paper.
Ryan raised the question of whether there should be a separate White Paper
for XFORMS. It was suggested that various papers targeted at specific
communities (e.g. Legal) could be produced.

The meeting was adjourned at this stage.


Regards,

Alan Milnes
IT Architect
Security, Asset & Risk Management - New Business
IBM United Kingdom Ltd.

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