Please find some notes of our call, but no IRC log of today's meeting below.
Our next meeting will be next year on the 18th of June.
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2014&month=06&day=18&hour=14&min=30&sec=0&p1=179&p2=37&p3=136&p4=234&iv=1800
https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/office-collab/event.php?event_id=36624
The teleconference login data for next call will be found in
the OASIS calendar event (URL above).
Attendees: Oliver, Svante
Oliver and I had a nice discussion about ODF the past, present and
future.
Some notable points about the future that we talked about:
- It would be helpful to have face2face meetings for ODF OASIS
TC similar to the W3C working groups, as in reality the best
progress is being made, when you can dedicate yourself a day or
two fully on finishing a problem/specification. Perhaps in
conjunction of an ODF application fair / meeting.
- ODF should not have only a single (?) conformance clause of
being able to write/read a document, but profiles with feature
sets, e.g. text, spreadsheet, web, business, etc.
- Tests should be provided with ODF (any standard) to verify the
correctness of a conformance feature. Operations are a key part
in it, as no longer loading & saving is the only testable
criteria, but as well loading, applying operations and saving.
- There is a huge gap between the agile software development and
today's standardization turn-around times. For instance, the
voting process or the writing of ISO errata took ages last time
I did it at Sun. Oliver and I both had some wild ideas to close
this gap.
- I personally wondered, why there is not "Meta" ISO standard
for having an open standard. Similar as it is possible to write
testable source code, it is possible to write testable
specification. This should be targeted ex cathedra. I personally
would love to saddle my horse to ride against such windmills.
Any references of a solution are most welcome..
Best regards,
Svante
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