ODF Adoption Technical Committee Meeting Notes, Meeting of June 13th, 2006

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

Roll Call
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Alan Milnes, IBM
Erwin Tenhumberg, Sun Microsystems
Timothy Vaverchak, ITD, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Gary Edwards, ODF Alliance
Marino Marcich, Software and Information Industry Association
Roger Hurwitz, Intel
Martha Mealy, IBM
Donglin Wang, Sursen

The meeting was not quorate so no formal decisions were taken.

ODF Logo
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Marino asked for current status. In the absence of any OASIS Staff the
position was unclear. Marino explained that many companies were requesting
logos - Marino would forward some requests to Erwin so he could see what
types of requests they were. Logo was connected to conformance and needed
to be carefully managed.

Progress on deliverables
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a) ODF presentation
Erwin had some slides from Sun and IBM and was just clarifying whether he
could distribute it.

b) White paper content
Erwin had distributed an initial draft of the White Paper and invited
comments via email.  Martha would use some of this content on the history
of ODF to update Wikipedia.

c) XML.org focus area
Two sponsors signed up and editorial board being formed.  Roger would
discuss with Carol.

News/updates about ODF efforts in France
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Deadline for comments was 15th June, many ODF Alliance members were
commenting as were the Alliance themselves. The Alliance would be
publishing an open letter on their web site.

OpenOffice.org Conference update
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Close to 90 submissions including a number of ODF related so there should
be a track.  Once the Agenda was published we should consider having a face
to face meeting at the conference.

Recent events/news
====================

Erwin had read a news item which indicated that Microsoft would provide an
ODF download for Office. Erwin would send a link to Marino.

Donglin Wang had joined the call but had to drop off.  It was felt a
discussion with him next time he joined would be productive. There were
some concerns over the work Sursen were doing which was especially the way
metadata was stored separately. Roger offered to set up a call with one of
his Chinese engineers and any interested parties. This would have to be
approx 5pm Pacific time to accommodate the time difference.

The meeting was adjourned at this stage.


Regards,

Alan Milnes
IT Architect
Outsourcing Infrastructure Solutions
Service Delivery Operations
IT Delivery Operations (UK, Ireland and South Africa)
IBM Global Technology Services, EMEA

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