ODF Adoption TC - 18 March 2008 - Minutes

[donald_harbison@us.ibm.com]

Dear ODF Adoption TC Members:

Here are the minutes of today's TC meeting:

Attendees: 

- Don Harbison, Co-Chair, IBM
- Rob Weir
- Alan Clark

Members: 3 of 36 (8%)
Voting Members: 3 of 7 (42%) (used for
quorum calculation) 

** A quorum was not achieved.

Erwin and Louis send their regrets.
They were unable to attend due to travel and other conflicts.

• Rob noted that the ODF TC has (3) new members: Warren Turkel (sp?), Google; Jomar Silva, ODF Alliance Brasil; and Bob Joliffe, Science & Technology, Government of South Africa. Welcome!
• Don called for renewed efforts to recruit new members to the ODF Adoption TC
• Don noted we need to resolve the issue of international conference calling numbers; the current number places an undue burden on callers outside of North America. Action: Don and Erwin to resolve.
• Rob updated us on the current actions and business of the ODF TC; i.e. focus has been on completing Errata documentation, correcting grammatical and minor editorial errors reported by the Japanese team working on translating the ODF specification into Japanese.
• Don highlighted the need for the Adoption TC members to focus on content deliverables, citing the increased competition of MSFT and their massive investment in marketing OOXML, especially the http://openxmldeveloper.org/default.aspx web site, with its attendant content and community building activities. The http://opendocument.xml.org site continues to need more focus and content.
• Rob suggested actively liaison'ing with the ODF Fellowship to tie together developer content between the two sites more proactively
• We had an extensive discussion on the need to refresh the ODF Interop workplan starting in April.
• It was agreed to establish a working area on the Web; i.e. perhaps a wiki at OASIS for hosting interop work, test suite documents, forums, etc. We believe we have most of this infrastructure ready and waiting on opendocument.xml.org
• Document Freedom Day is next Week, March 26th. There will be special events in many cities.
• Rob to investigate possibility of delivering a lightning talk to the upcoming Linux Foundation, Collaboration Summit and Desktop Architects Meeting in Austin, TX, April 8 - 10th. Rob will contact John Walicki, Chair of Linux Desktop Working Group.
• Next Adoption TC call is April 1, 2008... no joke!

Don Harbison
Program Director, IBM ODF Initiative
Business & Technical Strategy
IBM Software Group
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email: donald_harbison@us.ibm.com