ODF Adoption TC Call - September 5, 2006 - Minutes

[donald_harbison@us.ibm.com]

Roll Call
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Name                  
       Company        
               
 
Charles Schulz      
          Ars Aperta
Donald Harbison      
  IBM
Robert Weir        
        IBM
Dhananjay Keskar      
  Intel
Alan Clark        
        Novell
Marino Marcich      
          SIIA
Erwin Tenhumberg      
  Sun Microsystems
Carol Geyer        
       OASIS

Minutes
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Four of nine voting members attended, therefore a quorum was not achieved,
and no vote was taken on the minutes of August 29.

Progress on deliverables
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- ODF collateral review (presentation and white paper)
There was discussion on finalizing the
draft documents. Don Harbison updated the ODF presentation. An update was
made to clarify a bullet point.  Further discussion focused on the
status of the ODF white paper. Carol provided OASIS guidelines for how
to provide author attribution for language translations. Erwin will make
that adjustment to the French language translation. Erwin agreed to re-format
the white paper in the OASIS template after technical review of the template
with the Star Office technical team. Carol will coordinate with Mary McRae
to post the finalized OASIS template in ODF format. 

A vote on the final form of these collaterals
will be taken in a future TC meeting.

- ODF focus area on xml.org

   - Launch plan  final
discussion

Carol Geyer led the discucssion on this
topic. The TC agreed to publicly launch the site during the ODF track at
next week's OpenOffice.org Conference. Charles Schulz will demonstrate
the site during the ODF panel by using video projection from his laptop.
Carol will send Charles a proposed method for touring the site. Carol will
draft a press release. TC members are urged to continue to update content
for the site especially products/services pages. 

- DITA/ODF/DocBook Interop Demo

Don provided a brief update informing the TC members that activity to produce
an interoperability demo of ODF/DITA/DocBook was underway.

Updates about upcoming events
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- OpenOffice.org Conference, Lyon, France

Erwin reported that 550 people are now
registered for the conference, the largest attendance ever. Charles informed
the members that there is alot of excitement and last minute activities
underway regarding the ODF track on Wednesday, Sep 13. Alan Clark requested
DVD player support for Debra Anderson's keynote "The Novell migration
to OpenOffice.org". Charles will make the request to the conference
organizers.

- ODF Day at KDE Akademy, Dublin, Ireland

Rob Weir provided a brief update. Lightning
talks are now posted to the ODF Day wiki here: http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=OpenDocument+%40+aKademy+2006


ODF News / Round Table
======================
* the French government agency adoption
of OpenOffice is receiving more publicity. 

No further updates were offered by the
members.

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