Proposed TC Meeting Agenda Items

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

I'd like to suggest two agenda item
for us to queue up for discussion at a future TC call.

1) Proposal to create additional Subcommittees

With the increased TC size (now 16 voting
members) we should probably be more protective of how we use our time during
the weekly TC call.  Personally, I'm not sure that we have sufficient
time during these calls to examine technical issues related to metadata,
etc., to the depth these areas rightfully deserve.  I'd propose that
we think of the TC call as primarily a meeting to propose and coordinate
direction, and to review technical proposals.   But we should make
more use of Subcommittees to develop debate specification areas to the
point where the consensus of subject matter experts has been reached.  Then
have these Subcommittees report back their recommendations to the full
TC for review.   We're doing this with Accessibility today.  I
think Metadata and Spreadsheet Formulas would be two other obvious candidates
for such an approach.

2)  ODF TC Goals for 2006 .  


This is the type of thing we could discuss
in the TC call if we moved some of the other ongoing discussions into Subcommittees.
 

What do we as a TC want to accomplish
over the next 12 months?  

A strawman proposal:

a) Accessibility Subcommittee completes
its examination of ODF 1.0 and reports out findings and recommendations
b) TC issues ODF 1.01 specification
with errata and Accessibility corrections, but no other new capabilities.
 In other words, we agree to "fast track" any accessibility
requirements.
c) Subcommittee formed to develop and
propose further support for Metadata and Spreadsheet Formulas.
d) ODF 1.1 draft released with enhanced
metadata, spreadsheet formulas, and whatever other new features the TC
may propose
e) Compliance Subcommittee formed to
propose ways to define compliance and recommend and perhaps develop a means
to verify compliance of ODF-supporting applications


-Rob