ODF Adoption TC: Minutes November 13, 2007

[donald_harbison@us.ibm.com]

To All ODF Adoption TC Members:

Please find below the minutes of the
November 6, 2007 ODF Adoption TC meeting.


Attendees:

Don Harbison,        
        Co-Chair
Rob Weir,        
        IBM
J. David Eisenberg,      
  Individual
Alan Clark,        
        Novell
Marino Marcich      
         ODF Alliance
Dee Schur,        
        OASIS
Carol Geyer,        
        OASIS

Agenda:

1.) Logistics
    - Roll call --- Roll Call completed; a quorum was achieved.
    - Acceptance of open minutes from previous meetings --- No
minutes to ballot.
    - Acceptance of today's agenda  -- Accepted

2.) ODF Interop Plan
    - Subcommittee formation? 
        Discussion
on organization structure best suited to tackle the issue(s). Consensus
reached that a Sub Committee (SC) be formed under the ODF Adoption TC charter.

        Action:
Don agreed to request assistance from Mary McRae to formally structure
an ODF Interop SC withinin the ODF Adoption TC. This will require a written
SC charter compatible with the top level charter. SC members must be OASIS
members. 

     - Communications strategy ---
A 'devlist mail service' was agreed to be the optimum communications tool
for collaborating on the ODF Interop issues. Such a list would be open
to subscribers. By contrast a Forum would be fully open, with no requirement
for registration, and as such be very easy to write to. This also represents
the primary pitfall of a forum open to spamming and other forms of Internet
abuse.

Discussion followed on the need for a more formal liaison with active members
of the ODF Fellowship equally concerned with ODF Interoperability.
     
- Future ODF Camp opportunities
--- potential members to participate
incude: HaanSoft, RedOffice, KOffice Sept Solutions, IBM Symphony, Google
Docs, and OpenOffice.


3.)  Re-invigorating the ODF Focus Area / opendocument.xml.org --
we did not discuss this item

4.) Upcoming Events
     - XML 2007, Boston, December
    - OpenOffice.org Regional Conference in India in December
    - Lotusphere 2008, Orlando, January 20 - 24, 2008

5.) ODF News / Round Table
   - Summary of 1st International ODF Users Workshop (Oct 29
- 30, 2007, Berlin) ---
a summary was given by Marino, Don and Erwin. 20 countries were represented.
The event was a big success and will likely repeat.
    - Content/news that should be published on opendocument.xml.org




Regards,

/don

Don Harbison
Program Director, IBM ODF Initiative
Business & Technical Strategy
IBM Software Group
tel:1-978-399-7018
Mobile: +1-978-761-0116
email: donald_harbison@us.ibm.com