Draft Minutes -- OASIS ODF Adoption TC Coordination - Proposed AgendaforJuly 19, 2011

[donald_harbison@us.ibm.com]

Please find the draft minutes from our July 19th TC call...


1.) Logistics 

- Roll call

Name	Company	Status
Donald Harbison	IBM	Group Member
Rob Weir	IBM	Group Member
Andreas Guelzow	Individual	Group Member
Louis Suarez-Potts	Individual	Group Member
Alan Clark	Novell*	Group Member

- Determination of quorum status   
- Approve of June 21, 2011  Minutes:
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/odf-adoption/email/archives/201107/msg00002.html


The minutes were approved.

- Acceptance of today's agenda 
We added a topic on the future of the ODF Toolkit Union.

2.) ODF Plug-fest Report - Rob, and
Charles

Rob: Thurs., July 14 - 15, Berlin, Ministry
of Science and Technology and co-hosted by Ministry of the Interior of
the German Federal government. CIO's attended. First day was the technical
interop event with a smaller crowd of ~20 technical people doing testing.
The 2nd day was more broad, with presenters talking about their ODF adoption
experience. IT experiences and technical policy with vendor show and tell.


Overall, it went very well. An additional
ODF Plug-fest in the 3rd week of November in Gouda, The Netherlands. Microsoft
has proposed hosting an ODF Plug-fest in Brussels in March 2012 in their
Brussels offices. There is some resistance to this due to vendor sponsorship.
The OpenDocs Society, OpenForum Europe and members of the OASIS ODF Interoperability
and Conformance TC meet ad hoc to agree on the logistics. 

Vendors: Microsoft, IBM, LibreOffice,
KOffice, Calligra Suite. The agenda was packed full.

Was there a focus on mobile development
for ODF solutions? There was some mention of mobile. IBM mentioned its
ODF Viewers for Android and iOS. WebODF works for both SmartPhones and
browsers as it's developed in HTML5.

The buzz was around the WebODF project
as presented by Jos van de Oever.

Charles: Commenting on WebODF as a technology
break by Web 2.0 projects. 

3.) ODF Events  Plan for 2H/2011
- All
a.) LibreOffice Conference - ODF Master
Class (October 12 - 15, 2011) 

Oct. 12th is the arrival day, or 'off
day', during the afternoon there will be specific meetings that day. Cocktail
parties that evening around 6:00 p.m. Then on October 13th in the morning
the conference will start. On the evening of the 13th there will the 'party
of the region', and on the 14th, 2nd day of the conference, there will
be an informal party that night, and Saturday will close. ODF class runs
from the 13th to the 15th...but will conclude by Saturday at noon.

-Book early; submit your paper proposals
soon. Don't forget to register. The venue for the ODF Master Class at the
Inst. for Free Software Research. This is a renovated building where most
of the Debian leadership works on software packaging. The venue will be
a conference room, with a living room area for coffees, TV, and full wireless
access. Video projectors are available, and the whole venue looks quite
comfortable. 

Part of the talks will be about ODF
security attributes in the specifications. People from various affiliations
are showing an interest in this theme of document security. This is showing
evidence of increased sophistication on the types of attacks the public
sector users are receiving. One of the ministries at the ODF Plug-fest
reported that each day they receive (5) targetted attacks, sending a document
of the type they might expect. This type of attack is known as 'spear fishing'
...all effort behind the attack is behind a single, high profile target.

The bane of document security has been
traditionally due to macros...including executable code in a document.
Server side code to operate on the document may be a solution.

At some point a government will request
vendors of ODF implementations to explain their security attributes. Microsoft
will publish a white paper on its security attributes. ODF implementations
may also want to have a focused initiative on security similar to the SC
on Accessibility, and scrub through the ODF standard and evaluate its security
worthiness. Use the advantage of OASIS and have an open examination of
the security issue.

b.) TransferSummit, Oxford, UK.

c.) ODF Plug-fest at Gouda, The Netherlands,
3rd week of November 

d.) Possible event in China


4.) Future of ODF Toolkit Union
Discussion on the move of the Java programming
libraries from ODF Toolkit Union to the Apache Software Foundation. This
will increase the diversity of the project and the openness of the project
community working with these technologies.

lpOD consortia has no problem with uploading
or moving the code over. 

Apache will want the active development
to occur in the Apache projects. Discussion on the dual location problem.
Dual licensing the technologies could result in two different development
tracks. 

 
5.) Action Item Review & Update
http://wiki.oasis-open.org/odf-adoption/OdfAdoptionTcActionItems?action=edit&editor=text


6.) News and Roundtable - All

ODF 1.2 is still under OASIS Candidate
Standard review to end August 22, 2011, then a 14 day ballot between the
end of the public review, and TC admin posting. Estimate for ballot conclusion
is mid-September.

PAS submission requires putting together
an Explanatory Report, a short document 5 -7 pages describing the submission,
and how OASIS does maintenance. Most of the content comes from OASIS, The
TC amends, and then OASIS submits this to JTC1 over a 60 day pro