RE: [odf-adoption] Carol's questions on OpenDoc XML.org Knowledge base

["Carol Geyer" <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org>]

Erwin,
Thanks for the feedback.

3) I moved the "Open Standard Efforts" content to a wiki page,
http://opendocument.xml.org/open-standards-efforts, so readers can add to it,
and I included your suggested intro paragraph below. Two questions: Are we sure
"Open Standard Efforts" is a descriptive title? I didn't get the idea of
official government adoption from that title (but maybe that's just me). Also,
how is this page different from our "Deployments: Public Sector"
http://opendocument.xml.org/deployments-public-sector page? I presume
"Deployments" features government agencies that are *using* OpenDocument, and
"Open Standards Efforts" lists governments that are recommending or mandating
its use to their constituents or agencies, but I'm not sure. (Again, maybe
that's just me.)


4) I created a new KB page for "Committees" that provides links to the two
OASIS Committees and their charters. It also lists the OASIS Sponsor members
involved and provides links to both Committees' full member rosters. Does this
accomplish what you want with "Vendor Support"? 

I hesitate to try to reproduce and maintain a list of ODF Alliance members and
wonder if we include them, why not member lists from other supporting
organizations? We feature links to ODF Alliance (and other orgs) from our
Resources directory, and invite anyone to post a testimonial, deployment, case
study, product listing.

I also created a "Specification" page in the KB, with links to the schema
documents. Please take a look and let me know if this is okay.


Thanks,
Carol



-----Original Message-----
From: Erwin.Tenhumberg@Sun.COM [mailto:Erwin.Tenhumberg@Sun.COM] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 12:28 AM
To: Carol Geyer
Cc: odf-adoption@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [odf-adoption] Carol's questions on OpenDoc XML.org Knowledge base

> 1) I moved the information Erwin posted to the Knowledge base for "Related
> Projects and Initiatives" to the Resources directory Web sites page
> (http://opendocument.xml.org/web-sites). I created a link and a few sentences
> of description for each site. This should make it easier to update and expand
> on this information. It also allows readers to post comments on each listing,
> and lets us track how many people have read them.

Good.

> 2) Assistive technologies: http://opendocument.xml.org/assistive-technologies
> -- can we add a few sentences about why assistive technologies are relevant
to
> ODF or does is that not necessary? Does this information belong in the
> Knowledge base or should it be listed within the Resources directory
> http://opendocument.xml.org/resources?

Since accessibility is a key area of ODF and office productivity as we
all have seen in Massachusetts, I think there should be at least a link
from the Knowledge Base to more information, because people will check
out the knowledge base first.

I will ask Peter Korn for a short statement/summary!

> 3) Open Standards Efforts (http://opendocument.xml.org/node/63) I think we
need
> a sentence here too describing what this page is about. If it's list of links
> to which we want readers to contribute (instead of content controlled by the
> Editorial Board), then we should create it as a wiki page or part of the
> Resources directory.

You're probably right about the wiki.

The sentence could be something like:

"Various governments are in the process of adopting ODF. Some have
already decided to make ODF mandatory, others are currently evaluating
ODF as a national standard. Here is a list of various ODF related
government initiatives:"

> 4) Do we need Vendor Support (http://opendocument.xml.org/node/58)? Isn't
this
> covered by the Products/Services Directory and by the Testimonials pages?
Also,
> a link to the ODF Adoption TC member list isn't strictly *vendor* support, as
> many TC members don't represent vendors. 

Vendor support might be the wrong terminology, but I think we somehow
should highlight how many companies are driving the ODF standard as
members of the OASIS TC's or the ODF Alliance.

> 5) I'm concerned the Developer Resources page in the KB
> (http://opendocument.xml.org/node/56) will be confused with the Resources
> directory http://opendocument.xml.org/resources. I moved each of these links
to
> the appropriate page within Resources. If you don't object, I'll delete the
> "Developer Resources" page from the KB section. 

Sounds good.

> 6) At http://books.evc-cit.info/odf_utils/ I notice some links for ODF
> Applications. Is this a category we should be providing in our Resources
> directory? If yes, should I create a new page for "Applications" or
"Utilities"
> or would these fit under an existing category?

J. David Eisenberg might be the best person to answer this question, but
my feeling is that we should not hide the information behind too many
links, i.e. developers should easily find both the developer
documentation and the utilities. Thus, I'm not sure if the two should
be separated for now, considering that we don't have too many of them,
yet.


Best regards,
Erwin