ODF Adoption Technical Committee - Minutes of Meeting on May 23, 2006

[donald_harbison@us.ibm.com]

Please find below the minutes for the
ODF Adoption TC meeting of May 23, 2006. I served as Secretary while Alan
Milnes was unable to attend due to customer meetings.

Regards,

Don Harbison
Program Director, IBM ODF Initiative
Business & Technical Strategy
IBM Software Group
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email: donald_harbison@us.ibm.com


ODF Adoption Technical Committee
Meeting Minutes, Meeting of May 23, 2006
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Roll Call
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Don Harbison, IBM
Alan Clark, Novell
Erwin Tenhumberg, Sun Microsystems
Louis Suarez-Potts, Individual (OpenOffice.org)
Roger Hurvitz, Intel
Waldo Bastian, Intel
Robert Weir, IBM
Gary Edwards, ODF Foundation
Peter Lord, Oracle

Minutes of meeting on 16th May 2006
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The minutes were accepted without revision.


Agenda
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The proposed agenda was accepted.

Logistics
  - Roll call
  - Acceptance of minutes from last week 

2.) ODF Alliance liaison - Marino Marcich 

3.)  Massachusetts Update: RFI Submissions

4.) Round Table re. Collateral Progress 

5.) OpenOffice.org Conference -- 

ODF Alliance Liaison
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Marino Marcich attended and led a discussion on the ODF Alliance. He agreed
to participate as an Observer.

Now (3) months since its inception it has grown from
35 members to over 180 with representatives from 35 countries. The structure
of the ODF Alliance includes an Executive Committee and (4) Advisory Committees.
The Advisory Committees are: 1) Accessibility; 2) Communications; 3) Public
Policy; and 4) Resources.

The Alliance is now organizing at the local level;
e.g. Malaysia. 

(15) Alliance members are also members of OASIS.

Marino suggested that it is possible to amplify our
content. Specific question need to be addressed; e.g. how does one implement
an ODF policy? Where does one begin? Marino suggested that we need to focus
our resource and content to address these basic questions. For example,
relevant case studies are needed.

Louis called for volunteers to update the ODF entry
in Wikipedia. Currently, David Wheeler is editing this.

Gary suggested use case content focused on the areas
of accessibility, formulas and metadata, but also the need for use cases
that are more general.

Mariono mentioned that Alliance members could provide
local language translation support for this content.

Discussion was brief on the Massachusetts RFI. It
was noted that the RFI process is public, although the web site had not
yet been update to reflect submissions.

Discussion on ODF collateral:
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Roger made the point that ODF must establish a separate
identify from OpenOffice.org; i.e. many people perceive ODF as the same
thing as OpenOffice.

Roger also suggested that Wikipedia's ODF entry serve
as the primary resource location for ODF information since it appears as
the number 1 hit on Google when querying for ODF information.

Erwin believes that the OASIS ODF Adoption site and
the potential new ODF focus area on XML.org would be the most appropriate
official location for ODF resources and information as its pedigree is
obvious.

Erwin is asking for feedback on the ODF homepage at
OASIS.


Discussion on events plan including OpenOffice.org
Conference:
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Erwin is preparing an abstract for submission to speak
that the Wiesbaden standards event, and mentioned that he is speaking at
(2) other events: Open Source at Stockholm in September, and Open Source
event in The Netherlands in June.

OpenOffice.org is soliciting papers. The deadline
is June 1st. Novell will submit a paper. IBM is considering this.

The meeting was adjourned at this stage.