Re: [odf-adoption] Re: [odf-camp] Re: ODF Interoperability Camp Follow-up

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

Thomas,

What if we had something like this:

1) Interoperability coordination happens
within OASIS and OASIS membership is required to participate
2) Vendors pay their own way to become
OASIS members.  Standards development need to be funded somehow for
the member services they provide.
3) Individuals and representatives from
smaller FOSS projects could join either as individual members ($300) or
could be given a fee-waived membership grant.   We did this, as you
know, in the ODF TC and the Accessibility TC.

So, I think that doing this within OASIS
would not require that we leave anyone out.  We can accommodate everyone,
if we wanted.  There are also important benefits of this approach
since all participants would be required to agree to the OASIS IP rules,
which is an important consideration.

As for the Fellowship, one possibility
is that, if we do have a formal ODF interoperability effort in OASIS, is
that we form a TC-level liaison according to the defined policy (http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/liaison_policy.php#tcliaison
) and that coordination could occur at that level.   I don't think
that everything that needs to be done can be done entirely in the Fellowship,
since ultimately one of our approaches may be formal ODF profiles or similar
documents which would really need to be done in a standards organization.
 But we should certainly make sure we're make best use of our respective
organizational strengths.  The Fellowship, for example, can get things
done without months of debate ;-)

-Rob

Thomas Zander <zander@kde.org> wrote on 11/02/2007
10:02:15 AM:

> On Friday 02 November 2007 14:25:08 Carol Geyer wrote:
> > Thomas,
> > There seems to be a lot of confusion here, many emails are overlapping,
and
> > statements are being taken out of context. As Dee suggests, we
should
> > discuss this on the Committee's call Tuesday.
> 
> I don't see a lot of confusion. I can't participate in the call, email
(on an 
> open list) really is the only way for many open source people to participate
> in the process. Please don't shut us out.
> 
> Bottom line is that I would be very disappointed to see the smaller
groups 
> being left out of odf-interoperability 'stuff'.
> And requiring membership via OASIS, or even requiring (typically lengthy)
> call-ins to foreign countries do just that.