[odf-adoption] ODF Adoption TC Call - November 7th 2006 - Minutes

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

Roll Call
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Erwin Tenhumberg,       Sun Microsystems
Charles Schulz,         Ars Aperta
Marino Marcic,          ODF Alliance
Louis Suarez-Potts,     Individual (OpenOffice.org)
Gary Edwards,           OpenDocument Foundation
Donald Harbison,        IBM
Alan Milnes,            IBM

Minutes
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The minutes of 31st October were approved. It was noted that the email had
the wrong title but the contents were correct.

ODF Focus Area
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Don posted the two papers as agreed last week:

1) "Opportunities for innovation with OpenDocument Format XML" - an IBM
White Paper.
2) "XForms and OpenDocument in OpenOffice.org" -- by J. David Eisenberg

White Paper
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Erwin had not yet received the updates on the French version. The final
draft of the English version had been circulated to the committee, it was
agreed that the committee should review by the end of Thursday and confirm
their agreement via the email list.

Presentation
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Erwin had been working on speaker's notes but it was difficult when you
know the subject well.  He had included a suggestion that anyone with
questions should contact a member of the Adoption TC. Gary raised whether
or not there should be a slide on the "Alien Attribute" tag. It was agreed
that this was important information and Gary would summarise his thoughts
in an email to the list. As to the presentation again it was agreed that
the committee should review by the end of Thursday and confirm their
agreement via the email list

ODF in Action
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Louis would approach Carol to see if this could be part of the OASIS
conference in San Diego in April.  Don had approached a colleague regarding
on the IBM sponsored ODF Accessibility developer contest but had no
feedback yet.

Other Deliverables
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Don suggested we should consider further deliverables. Erwin would send a
reminder to the team to stimulate discussion.

Round Table
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There was a general discussion on the Novell / Microsoft deal - it was
noted that Alan Clark wasn't present to address some of the questions
raised.

The Polish parliament would be holding a session on Open Standards on
Wednesday 8th and OASIS would be giving a presentation.  The Agenda looked
very positive.

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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