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Subject: [odf-adoption] ODF Adoption TC Call - October 24th 2006 - Minutes



Roll Call
=========

Erwin Tenhumberg,       Sun Microsystems
Charles Schulz,         Ars Aperta
Alan Clark,             Novell
Marino Marcic,          ODF Alliance
Gary Edwards,           OpenDocument Foundation
J. David Eisenberg,     OpenDocument Foundation
Louis Suarez-Potts,     Individual (OpenOffice.org)
Donald Harbison,        IBM
Robert Weir,            IBM
Alan Milnes,            IBM

Minutes
=======

The minutes of 10th, 17th and 24th October were approved.

ODF White Paper
===============

Feedback had been sent to Erwin and it was hoped to finalise the paper this
week with final approval at the meeting on 7th November. A French version
was also being prepared - Charles and Louis would review.

IBM paper on ODF innovations
============================

Don had issued this for review. It was IBM branded but it was felt this was
OK as it was talking about what IBM was doing with ODF. Gary asked about
the statement regarding the "new, simplified DOM-based programming model
for ODF", Don expanded it and stated that the intention was that this work
would be shared.

XForms Essay
============

J. David's paper on XForms and ODF had been updated. The Committee approved
the paper and Don would arrange for it to be published on the website in
both ODF and PDF format. Erwin asked how many people had accessed his ODF
book online - J. David would circulate the URL for accessing the stats.

ODF in Action Conference
========================

Erwin raised the suggestion of a Conference regarding practical use of ODF
- real world adoption, J. David suggested a BarCamp format. Queries were
raised regarding the current state of tooling etc and whether this was
appropriate at this stage. Don suggested the focus at the moment should be
on Developer events. The idea of a competition with a prize to encourage
development could be used to stimulate activity in this area. Possibly
there could be different categories with a sponsor for each category.
Mention was made of the ODF Symposium in March 2007 as a possible good
place to announce the winners, perhaps even making the winners demonstrate
their ideas at the conference. Luis would send out a draft proposal and Don
would circulate details of an IBM system that has been used to manage
development communities. Erwin suggested using communities to evaluate
proposals but not to have the final say.

A question was raised regarding Google and whether or not they could
participate in this call.  Erwin was in touch with a contact who would be
moving back to California soon and would hope to locate someone to join.

Round Table
===========

Erwin reported on the news announcement that the French Ministry for
Agriculture and Fishing chose OpenOffice.org based on the RGI
recommendations due to the EOL of Microsoft Office 2000. Charles could
neither confirm or deny the report although the sources appeared to be old.

Charles reported on the launch of Firefox 2.0 in Paris when positive
comments were made about ODF.

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

Tel: (+44) [0] 7764-660 709 (Mobex: 272952)
Internet: milnea@uk.ibm.com




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