RE: [odf-adoption] ODF Adoption Technical Committee Meeting Minutes, Meetingof May 2nd, 2006

[donald_harbison@us.ibm.com]

Waldo,

I think the best representation to the
OSDL DTL is that ODF is programmable XML. It represents a new opportunity
to innovate at the middleware and application layer above the windowing
and desktop layer that has been the primary focus of the DTL; e.g. power
mgmt, wireless, print drivers, etc. So it's the next frontier ahead in
other words.

We're trying to get the developer community
to grok that it's more than an new file format for an outdated desktop
office suite market, although there is a huge opportunity to wrest some
of that with new innovative applications (hint hint) that leverage what
you can do with ODF XML, and related standards; e.g. Xforms.


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



"Bastian, Waldo" <waldo.bastian@intel.com>
wrote on 05/10/2006 03:14:53 AM:

> Indeed J I wasn’t able to attend due to travel, we are actually 
> having an OSDL face2face right now. Is there anything in particular
> that would be worthwhile communicating to the OSDL Desktop Linux workgroup?
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> Waldo Bastian
> Linux Client Architect - Client Linux Foundation
Technology
> Channel Platform Solutions Group
> Intel Corporation - http://www.intel.com/go/linux
> OSDL DTL Tech Board Chairman
> 
> From: donald_harbison@us.ibm.com [mailto:donald_harbison@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 1:34 PM
> To: Alan Milnes
> Cc: odf-adoption@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [odf-adoption] ODF Adoption Technical Committee Meeting
> Minutes, Meeting of May 2nd, 2006
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> 
> Alan, 
> 
> One minor correction. It's Waldo Bastian, not Sebastian. 
> 
> Thank you for volunteering to continue on as Secretary. 
> 
> best, 
> 
> 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
> 
> 

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> Alan Milnes <MILNEA@uk.ibm.com> 
> 05/08/2006 11:00 AM 
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> [odf-adoption] ODF Adoption Technical Committee Meeting Minutes, 
> Meeting of May 2nd, 2006
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> ODF Adoption Technical Committee
> Meeting Minutes, Meeting of May 2nd, 2006
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> Roll Call
> =======
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> Charles Schultz, Ars Arperta
> Alan Mines, IBM
> Don Harbison, IBM
> Martha Mealy, IBM
> Alan Clark, Novell
> Mary McRae, OASIS
> Gary Edwards, OpenDocument Foundation
> Ryan Singer, OpenDocument Foundation
> Louis Suarez-Potts, Individual (OpenOffice.org)
> Erwin Tenhumberg, Sun Microsystems
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> Minutes of meeting on 25th April 2006
> =====================================
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> The minutes were accepted without revision.
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> Agenda
> =======
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> The proposed agenda was accepted.
> 
> ISO Ballot
> ==========
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> It was understood that the ODF Submission had been approved without
> opposition.
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> White Paper
> ===========
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> It was agreed that a high level presentation would be prepared covering
the
> areas of interest for the White Paper. This would enable a start to
be made
> in breaking down what is a major piece of work. Erwin would coordinate
the
> production of these slides.
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> The following areas of responsibility were agreed:-
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> Accessibility - Don
> Local Government - Charles
> Screenshots - Alan
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> Symposium
> =========
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> Arrangements for the San Francisco meeting were discussed and agreed.
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> The committee agreed that other face to face meetings should be considered,
> the following were possible candidates:-
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> Linux World, San Francisco, August (also UK event in London - October)
> http://www.linuxworld.com
> Open Office Conference, Lyon, September  http://
> marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2006/index.html
> World Wide Web conference, Edinburgh, May  http://www2006.org/
> OASIS Standard day in Wiesbaden, Germany, November
> http://www.oasis-open.org/news/open_standard_day.php
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> It was suggested that we develop a consistent message / theme we want
to
> push at these meetings. This would be discussed in San Francisco.
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> OSDL Desktop Working Group
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> Don spoke briefly on this topic. Waldo Sebastian is also involved
in this
> area.
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> Other Items
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> It was agreed that getting Universities interested in ODF would be
very
> useful. There were various ways to do this although funding research
> projects was probably the most effective. This would be reviewed in
San
> Francisco.
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> It was noted that there was a gap in coverage on the committee from
the
> Latin America and Asia Pacific regions. There was some Chinese interest
in
> joining and this would be followed up.
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> It was agreed there would be no telephone call on the 9th May due
to the
> face to face meeting.
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> The meeting was adjourned at this stage.
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> Regards,
> 
> Alan Milnes
> IT Architect
> Security, Asset & Risk Management - New Business
> IBM United Kingdom Ltd.
> 
> Tel: (+44) [0] 7764-660 709 (Mobex: 272952)
> Internet: milnea@uk.ibm.com
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