[odf-adoption] ODF Adoption TC Call - November 14th 2006 - Minutes

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

Roll Call
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Charles Schulz          Ars Aperta
Timothy Vaverchak       Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Louis Suarez-Potts      Individual (OpenOffice.org)
Alan Clark              Novell
Gary Edwards            The OpenDocument Foundation, Inc.
J Eisenberg             The OpenDocument Foundation, Inc.
Peter Roden,            OASIS
Carol Geyer,            OASIS
Marino Marcic,          ODF Alliance
Martha Mealy            IBM
Alan Milnes             IBM
Don Harbison,           IBM

Minutes
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The minutes of 14th November were approved.

Report from Polish meeting on Open Standards
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Peter updated the group on the meeting that was held last week. It was felt
that it was important to emphasise that Open Standards was wider than just
ODF. It was felt that the discussions were at quite an early stage.  OASIS
would 1) continue to monitor developments, 2) consider writing a letter of
support and offering help in policy development, 3) look at how this scales
to other countries and 4) encourage the Adoption Committee / ODF Alliance
to create a repository of know open standards wording in use currently.

It was also suggested that we gather examples of where the failure to use
standards impacts citizen's lives, e.g. requirement to use a specific
Application to apply for an absentee ballot.

White Paper
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There were some minor corrections to be made so approval was tabled until
the next week.

Presentation
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The committee approved the presentation Erwin had prepared.  Don would
arrange for it to be published on the website.

Monograph for Upgrade / Novática
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The committee had been invited to contribute a monograph about Open
Document Format, this monograph will be published in the December issue of
Upgrade and the November-December issue of Novática.  Don would work with
Erwin and Charles to produce a first draft based on the work already done.

ODF Contest
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Carol was supportive of the proposal for a contest but there was a lot of
details to be resolved. Don had provided details of how IBM had run a
recent contest, this included an education session with a small prize for
completing that stage. Carol and Gary would liaise off-line.

Roundtable
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Alan Clark provided his perspective on the recent Novell - Microsoft deal,
he felt it was a positive development for ODF.  Alan Clark took the action
to clarify Novell's strategy to support OOXML from the perspective of the
OpenOffice Novell Edition product offering.

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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