Minutes: ODF Adoption TC Call - 30 January 2007

[donald_harbison@us.ibm.com]

Roll Call
=========
Erwin Tenhumberg,      
 Sun Microsystems
Jane Harnad        
       OASIS
Rob Weir,        
        IBM
Don Harbison,        
       IBM
Martha Mealy,        
       IBM
Alan Clark        
       Novell
Marino Marchich      
 ODF Alliance

A quorum was not attained.

The first topic discussed is the current
balloting of ODF v1.1, containing the accessibility extendsion to the specification,
at OASIS. Rob reported that there are now 61 'YES' votes and zero 'NO'
votes. A ballot quorum was successfully achieved (now at 18%, with quorum
ruled at 15% of eligible voters).

The Accessibility sub-committee continues
to work on the 'Accessibility Guidelines for Implementations of Open Document
Format v1.1'
Rob gave an update on the work for ODF
v1.2. Consolidation of the sub-committee work for Formula and Metadata
is on plan for end of February. The ODF TC is expected to organize a vote
on this consolidated draft in preparation for general OASIS balloting.

Rob reported that there was no new news
on the formation of a UOF sub-committee in the ODF TC, but the charter
is drafted. It is likely, but not confirmed, that the Chinese delegation
is finalizing standardization of UOF in China as a pre-requisite for formally
initiating the UOF sub-committee at OASIS ODF TC.

The discussion moved to the topic of
our proposals to participate at the OASIS Symposium. Jane Harnad represented
OASIS and provided the following proposal:

>> (with 45 min panels and 30
min opening/closing presentations)
 
9-9:30 - Keynote, Where ODF is and what
it has accomplished? (Speaker tbd)
 
9:30-10:15 - Panel, accessibility (Don
Harbison organizing; seeking speakers from IBM, Sun, and the ODF Accessibility
Sub-committee)
 
10:15-10:30 - Break
 
10:30-11:15 - Panel,  programmability
(Rob Weir organizing; seeking speakers from Novell, Sun, and KOffice)
 
11:15-12:00 - Interoperability and Adoption
(Rob Weir and Marino Marcich organizing; seeking speakers from Novell,
Sun and public sector I/T)
 
12:00-12:30 - Future of ODF (Speaker(s):
tbd)

We all took the action item to work
within our organizations to confirm additional speaker participation.

A proposal to conduct a joint meeting
between the ODF TC and the ODF Adoption TC was well received. Jane will
reserve a room for Wed., 4/18 in the afternoon. 

Discussion moved to the events repository
topic. Erwin informed the TC that OASIS advised us to use the events area
on opendocument.xml.org for this purpose. 

Erwin informed the TC that he recently
spoke at 'Open Source Meets Business' conference in Nuernberg, Germany
recently. He also will be speaking at XML Finland 2007 on March 24th.

Erwin updated the TC on the process
for reviewing proposals for this year's OpenOffice.org Conference. Proposals
must be submitted by the end of January. Barcelona, Vienna, China and India
are likely candidates.

Rob raised the subject of Adobe's recent
announcement to standardize PDF as an ISO standard. Adobe technical staff
are engaging with the ODF TC to discuss the use of the ODF manifest, the
packaging specification, for their 'Mars' project. Mars is an XML representation
of PDF. The value of sharing a common packaging schema was discussed. Points
observed included improved search and indexing through sharing metadata.
The opportunity to have implementations read/write their document data
to a common container which would permit Acrobat Reader users to view ODF
XML.

During the roundtable it was noted that
Italy has now adopted ODF as a national standard.  Also, Peugeot-Citroen
has adopted Novell's SUSE Linux Desktop (SLED) offering which include OpenOffice
Novell Edition.

The meeting adjourned.

The next meeting is February 13, 2007
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best regards,

Don Harbison
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Business & Technical Strategy
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