Re: [office] Formula subcommittee - olive branch?

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

David,

Great suggestion!

BTW, OASIS TCs can also setup liaisons with other organizations.

See: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/liaison_policy.php#liaisons

By simple vote of the TC.

Doesn't really say anything about subcommittees but just like any other 
member of the TC, they could choose which subcomittees they wanted to 
participate in.

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick

David A. Wheeler wrote:

> FYI, I've had a private email asking if in the future there might be
> interest in our working on spreadsheet formulas somehow
> with ECMA and/or the folks involved with EOOX.
>
> I can't speak for anyone else.  I can say that for myself, I would
> be happy to work with ANY party, ESPECIALLY any implementor,
> that is interested in creating an open standard.  On the other hand,
> it seems unwise to sit in a "wait forever" mode for
> something that may never occur. ECMA has not committed
> to doing this work, to my knowledge, and the OpenDocument TC
> members see a need to start NOW.
>
> But how about this - as part of the establishment of the
> formula subcommittee, make a point to invite all implementors
> to join the TC subcommittee, and that you'd like all to join.
> You'd mean that anyway, but it'd be a nice gesture; is there
> any objection to making an invitation as a formal announcement?
>
> If there are other ways to extend an olive branch, or make it
> easier to bring those people into a process, that'd be great too.
> If anyone has any ideas on that score, please voice them.
>
> This way OASIS can continue at top speed, but if others want
> to join the standardization process later on, they can do so.
> I don't know if we can make the standardization stars align,
> but I would be DELIGHTED if it could happen somehow.
> If everyone could agree on ONE spec that'd be great.
>
> --- David A. Wheeler
>
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