[odf-adoption] ODF Adoption Technical Committee Meeting Minutes, Meeting ofApril 25th, 2006

[donald_harbison@us.ibm.com]

ODF Adoption Technical Committee
Meeting Minutes, Meeting of April 25, 2006
==========================================

Roll Call
=======

Erwin Tenhumberg, Sun Microsystems
Don Harbison, IBM
Martha Mealy, IBM
Alan Clark, Novell
Gary Edwards, OpenDocument Foundation
Ryan Singer, OpenDocument Foundation
Louis Suarez-Potts, Individual (OpenOffice.org)

Don volunteered as Secretary since Alan Milnes was
unable to attend due to travel.

Minutes of meeting on 18th April 2006
=====================================

The minutes were accepted without revision.

Agenda
==================================

1.) Logistics (5 min)
      - Roll call
      - Acceptance of last week's minutes
      - Acceptance of today's agenda

2.) ODF Adoption TC face-to-face meeting (15 min)
      - Who is planning to come?
      - Logistics
      - Possible agenda items
3.) OpenDocument logo (15 min)
      - Purpose
      - Target audience
      - To be used how and where?

4.) ODF White Paper (10 min)
      - Owners
      - Topics/chapters to start with
      - Sources for content / possible authors
      - Creation/review process

5.) Adoption TC homepage (10 min)
      - What should be listed?

==================================
2.) ODF Adoption TC face-to-face meeting

Confirmed attendees for the F2F meeting at the OASIS
Symposium, Wed., May 10th, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. PDT include:
Erwin Tenhumberger, Don Harbison, Martha Mealy, Gary
Edwards, Alan Clark, Ryan Singer*, Louis Suarez-Potts*.
* may have travel conflict issue.

Carol Geyer will attend representing OASIS Communications.

Discussion followed on building an agenda. Topics
included:
        - Erwin suggested:
'Create focus area on XML.org for ODF, similar to the DITA example.'
        - Louis suggested
we do not vote on any topic since the May 10th meeting will be difficult
for remote attendees to follow and participate in given the timezone and
length. TC members concurred.
        - White paper
        - Louis suggested:
Roadmap; set the future agenda of the TC.

Group discussion concurred that the primary audience
for the TC deliverables includes: ISVs, developers. Also, a segmentation
for the delivery of informative, technical content for this community in
contrast to content developed for advocacy outreach, with vertical industry
line-of-business value propositions, and related benefit focus.

The proposed agenda that is taking shape maps to this
outline:

I.         Convene, roll
call. (do not vote on previous TC meeting minutes, but defer to May 17th
TC meeting)
II.         Review charter.
Determine if there is a need to revise.
III.         Define workplan
and metrics for 2006 calendar.
IV.         Focus discussion
on white paper elements
V.         Determine liaison
plan with the ODF Alliance
VI.         Media relations
plan and calendar

TC members are encouraged to further develop and refine
the agenda. Erwin will be sending out an updated white paper outline for
review. We agreed to break down the elements of the outline, make assignments
to TC members, and initiate action on the paper following the May 10th
discussions.

==================================
3.) OpenDocument logo (15 min)

Don pointed the team to http://www.cafepress.com/oasis_open
where OASIS logo'd merchandise is available, including OASIS OpenDocument.
Don has requested eps and gif files of this treatment for use with the
TC deliverables. We will discuss this with Carol Geyer at the May 10th
meeting.
==================================
4.) ODF White Paper (10 min)

Discussion on the white paper focused on the need to modularize the content,
assign owners, and agree to a common project plan. This will be accomplished
at the May 10th meeting. 

==================================
5.) Adoption TC homepage (10 min)
Erwin informed the members that he had done some cleanup
of the TC homepage, and asked for suggestions on how to improve.


==================================
Miscellaneous

- Discussion on recruiting new members. 
- Discussion on the proposed DITA/DocBook/ODF interoperability
demo. Don informed the TC that there will be a new OASIS discussion list
intiated for this proposed project. 

==================================
The meeting was adjourned at this stage.


Regards,


Don Harbison
Program Director, IBM ODF Initiative
Business & Technical Strategy
IBM Software Group
tel:1-978-399-7018
Mobile: +1-978-761-0116
email: donald_harbison@us.ibm.com