Draft Minutes: TC Coordination Call - September 22, 2009

[donald_harbison@us.ibm.com]

1.) Logistics

 - Roll call

Bart Hanssens        
         Fedict 
Donald Harbison      
  IBM
Robert Weir        
        IBM
Marino Marcich      
          OpenDocument Format
Alliance (ODFA)
Michael Brauer      
          Sun Microsystems
Aslam Raffee        
        Sun Microsystems
Louis Suarez-Potts      
  Sun Microsystems


 - Determination of quorum status
 - A quorum was achieved.

 - Review, amend/approve the minutes
from our August 25, 2009 TC call:
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/odf-adoption/email/archives/200909/msg00011.html

- Acceptance of today's agenda

2.) Opendocument.xml.org web site: Next
12 months  (2010) planning - All

The TC discussed the need for an action
plan to re-vitalize the ODF Focus Area hosted on xml.org.
OASIS is seeking sponsorship renewals.
The TC agreed that a detailed assessment, recommendation and action plan
is needed.

• IBM requested an invoice for the next 12 month period.
• Michael Brauer reported that Eduardo Gutentag would likely receive a similar invoice from OASIS.
• Don Harbison reported that he was currently assessing the web site in preparation for a recommendation to IBM management for renewal of sponsorship.
• Don Harbison indicated he will reach out to other TC members with corporate affiliation to better understand their positions with respect to sharing the sponsorship going forward; i.e. Novell, Beijing Red Flag China 2000, Google.

The TC agreed to the following ODF Focus
Area action plan:

1. Marino Marcich to provide site statistics for ODF Alliance site.
2. Rob Weir to report out on a comparison of site statistics with the ODF Focus area / ODF Alliance.org sites.
3. Don Harbison to invite Carol Geyer and the XML.org web master to a future TC meeting to discuss the opportunities for future design changes and policies for granting administrator rights to TC member or members.
4. Bart Hanssens suggested TC members familiarize themselves with the available Drupal templates.
5. Don H. to schedule a followup meeting in 7 days.

3.) Status update for OpenOffice.org
Conference planning including ODF Track, ODF Interoperability Workshop,
etc. - All

Louis urged those TC members planning
to attend the OpenOffice.org conference to expedite their accomodation
bookings.
Rob summarized the ODF Track status
as follows:
- good amount of abstracts submitted
- 'State of ODF' panel abstract is accepted.
        -
provides opportunity for OASIS ODF TC chairs, the ODF Alliance and the
ODF Toolkit Union to represent a portrait of the 'state of ODF'.
        -
Don suggested this also provides a  unique communications opportunity
to summarize the the session messages for Web publishing.
        -
Rob suggested an outline comprised of (3) pillars: Adoption, Implementation,
and Interoperability.
        -
Louis suggested a fourth pillar: Futures or Innovation


4.) Review, TC Action Item plan: http://wiki.oasis-open.org/odf-adoption/OdfAdoptionTcActionItems
- All
Don updated the Action Item table to
reflect the ODF Focus area workplan.

5.) ODF News / Round Table  --
All

Aslam Raffee provided a status report
on ODF policy adoption by a South African provincial government. The challenge
is to provide pragmatic implementation advice and services that recognize
the need to migrate binary MS-Office documents.

Marino provided a status report on the
recent ODF government workshop held in Brasilia. See his blog post here
for the details: http://tiny.cc/hmjXV

Rob provided a status report on the
JTC1 Plenary (Sep. 13 - 17), in Seattle. He provides details on his blog
post here:
http://tiny.cc/2X1Ci

The meeting was adjourned.

Respectfully submitted,


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