ODF Adoption TC Call - 4 December 2007 - Minutes

[Erwin Tenhumberg <Erwin.Tenhumberg@Sun.COM>]

Dear TC members,

Here are my notes from last week's ODF Adoption TC call.


All the best,
Erwin



Attendees
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* Marino Marcich
* Don Harbison
* Erwin Tenhumberg
* J. David Eisenberg
* Peter Vandenabeele
* Alan Clark
* Charles Schulz

We achieved a quorum.


ODF 1.2 Collateral Plan
=======================
Erwin still has to update his slides and move the content to
the OASIS template, i.e. update the existing slides.


ODF Logo
========
Erwin and OASIS exchanged a few emails.
OASIS is willing to take ownership of the issue.
OASIS seems to prefer some kind of combination of the OASIS bug
and Red Hat's dove logo.


ISV Outreach
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Erwin sent out a rough outline of an ISV white paper.
For the ODF business case it would be nice to have:
- IBM Lotus Symphony distribution numbers
- SuSE Linux distribution numbers

Alan Clark will try to collect data within Novell.
Marino will contact other Linux distros.

J. David is interested in helping with code samples,
but would like to know what the preferred languages
are. Probably PHP and Java should be among them.

A team in France is working on an ODF library for different
scripting languages including Perl and Python.
So far all information is in French only.
Charles will J. David with some info about the French effort.


ODF Interop Plan
================
Rob hasn't found the time for writing up a draft plan, yet.


XML 2007, Boston, December
==========================
The event is right now.
Miguel will talk about the translator.


Other Events
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The call for location for the OpenOffice.org Conference 2008
has just started.

The Adoption TC does not really have an opinion about the
location, but it would be nice to have another ODF interop
event at OOoCon 2008. Thus, it should be feasible for the
key ODF interop event participants to get to the event
location.

It might make sense to have an additional ODF ISV event at
OOoCon 2008 as well.



ODF News / Round Table
======================

Accessibility Event by the European Commission in Brussels
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Erwin will be demoing open source accessibility tools at a two-day
conference for people with disabilities by the European Commission
in Brussels.


Roadmap info on opendocument.xml.org
------------------------------------
Don suggested to post things like "What to expect from OpenOffice.org
in 2008?" on opendocument.xml.org. IBM could do the same for Lotus
Symphony. Google can do the same for Google Docs, as well.


LotusSphere 2008
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LotusSphere will be in Orlando in January.
Several presentations will be on Symphony.
One of the presentations will be targeting ISV's and developers.