Minutes: ODF Adoption TC Call 05 May 2009

[Louis Suarez-Potts <Louis.Suarez-Potts@Sun.COM>]

Dear TC Members:

Please find the draft minutes of our 5 May 2009 TC meeting below.

Proposed Agenda
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1.) Logistics
- Roll call

Name
Company
Status
Peter Junge
Beijing Redflag Chinese 2000 Software Co.,...
Group Member
Bart Hanssens
Fedict
Group Member
Donald Harbison
IBM
Group Member
Robert Weir
IBM
Group Member
Alan Clark
Novell*
Group Member
Marino Marcich
OpenDocument Format Alliance (ODFA)
Group Member
Michael Brauer
Sun Microsystems
Group Member

- Determination of quorum status
Meeting Statistics Quorum rule 51% of voting members Achieved quorum true
Counts toward voter eligibility true Individual Attendance Members: 7 of
35 (20%)
Voting Members: 6 of 8 (75%) (used for quorum calculation)
Company Attendance Companies: 6 of 19 (31%)
Voting Companies: 5 of 6 (83%)
- Approval of minutes from April 7, 2009 TC meeting
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/odf-adoption/email/archives/200904/msg00005.html



The minutes were approved.

- Acceptance of today's agenda

2.) Review, TC Action Item plan:
http://wiki.oasis-open.org/odf-adoption/OdfAdoptionTcActionItems - All
The TC discussed the event plan at length with a focus on the Government
2.0 Summit (O'Reilly Conference), the upcoming interoperability event at
The Hague (June 15 - 16), and the OpenOffice.org Conference in early
November (Orvieto, Italy).

The TC agreed to plan another ODF plug-fest, or 'camp' for the
OpenOffice.org Conference. Don to the action item to 'put the stake in the
ground' with the conference organizers via the new discussion list at
OpenOffice.org. Bart agreed to promote this at the OIC TC list as well,
once it has taken shape.

The TC agreed to review and update the ODF Adoption wiki with a current
list of ODF implementations. Rob can reference this in his State of ODF
Interoperability Report being drafted for the ODF Interoperability and
Conformance TC.

Bart informed the TC of an upcoming Microsoft Document Interoperability
Initiative event, scheduled for London on May 18th. Bart will attend.

Bart is creating a rough draft of a Digital Signature profile as part of
his efforts at the OIC TC.

Bart is speaking in Zagreb where he'll be be presenting an ODF key note at
the DORS/CLUC 2009 event (www.open.hr).



--- Marino adoption plan: that requests come from Carol G. and not just
from ODF Alliance.

Update: two weeks time

--
Draft ODF is a web standards; w3c interest group 12 May but they ignore
issueof docs and do not consider formats as a web standard; ignore
standard and do not reference XML or doc formats. oppose proprietary
formats etc but nothing specific. the w3c report to be issued will have
no impact then on doc web standards.
- Marino: take a look at the working draft but it does not see it as
relevant.
- rob they have shown little interest in ODF
- there is no reference to odf or other doc formats, besides
anti-proprietary
- Rob: w3c do not do things absent ref implementation... ask what do you
want to do: odf in a browser? then get firefox to do it; nothing will
happen unless there is an implementation.
-marino: initial report in 12 May but they may extend the mandate, as
they are interested in expanding it and there is still time to engage
them in this.
- rob: could push the odf packaging model--file with manifest, etc.:
killer thing for web as well, to lay out browser specs. They have not
solved this problem in w3c. Post 1.2, the packaging model will be split.

look at this later.


3.) ODF Interoperability Event at The Hague - Bart Hanssens

4.) Government 2.0 Summit - Don



5.) OpenOffice.org Conference - Louis

no update but time to investigate and drive :-)

Peter: they are contacting prior organizers (peter, jesus, et al.) and
interested to know what the odf adoption can do this year; and want a
larger odf event this year than prior. They want an adoption event in
Orvieto.
Louis: they must work publicly and on the lists. The TC can help but we
need for them to work with us more publicly.
Peter: looking for sponsors.....



6.) ODF News / Round Table  -- All



Peter Junge: RedOffice will bridge ODF and UOF. It currently defaults to
read/write ODF V1.1.

--cannot say too much about it; there is an english versin of spec but
it is not too good... colleagues working oin it; nothing new at the moment.

-- RedOffice is shipping 4.5 is soon to be released.. .supporting ODF 1.1

--
Marino: nothing
Alan: nothing to add
Rob: quick update on ODF TC: approved 0.2 of draft 1.2 and put it out
for review; community drafts issued 3/4 weeks. Next week meeting in
Brussels in idabc on Nature of Administrative Documents, and several of
us have been invited to this--additional requirements for ODF
-press on this not until public review
-  technical estimate of when review: Not before July for public review.
Marino that means that we have papers, press material by end of June.
Issue is that we want to get this done before vacation season.
Michael Bauer: when would this be done for public review? Opinion? we
separate public review from formula (formal?) part as that latter needs
more work; and July seems likely too for public review. But it depends
on how many public comments we receive. The two large blocs are
editorial notes in spec and public comments--received in March 170
alone. Time depends then on the number of comments received in the next
few weeks.

Marino but given info we can still draft white papers for end of June.
MB: from technical perspective, the spec is complete--so we know the
tech details, like new features, etc. Specis complete but what is not is
the editorial element--the annotation--not the actual determination of
the functionality.
MB: last draft is not quite available but will be shortly, as
requirement of Oasis is that there have to be various publishable
versions. Will be available sometime this week.

--RT: michael bauer: nothing besides the above
-- louis: importance of w3c,gov't needing good arguments for migrating
to odf



Marino: Drafting an ODF V1.2 brochure; will circulate this to the TC.

The meeting was adjourned.

Regards,