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Subject: Re: [oiic-formation-discuss] (1)(f) and (1)(g) -- audience and working language
Rob et al,
With reference to the ODF Adoption TC Charter, does this look sufficient for us to move on to the next point(s)?:
1f) Anticipated Audience/Users (alphabetical order)
1g) Language in which the TC will conduct business.
- Corporate and governmental decision-makers
- End users
- Media and industry analysts
- Software Developers
- Third-party Certification Labs
- Vendors
The TC will conduct its business in English.
SamOn Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Sam Johnston <samj@samj.net> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:20 PM, <robert_weir@us.ibm.com> wrote:Do we need to differentiate between 'users' and 'purchasers' given
>
> "Sam Johnston" <samj@samj.net> wrote on 06/11/2008 09:57:16 AM:
>
> > Hi Rob,
> >
> > There have been a few suggestions already for 1f in the wiki - so
> > far Vendors, Integrators, Users, Customer Groups (see http://
> > sites.google.com/a/odfiic.org/tc/Home/tc-charter/anticipated-audience).
> >
>
> Great. So combined with what David sent, we have:
>
> 1) Vendors
> 2) Integrators
> 3) Users
> 4) Customer groups
> 5) Purchasers of software or services
their wants & needs are well aligned? Then again at the individual end
of the scale you want to know about individual features (eg print to
pdf) and layout integrity but as you are buying for more and more
people (eg companies, countries) you get more and more interested in
conformance & interop; maybe they are in fact different groups... IS
people probably fall in the latter group too.
Also customer/consumer groups should probably include competition
authorities (eg EU Competition Commissioner, ACCC in Australia, etc.).
Perhaps we could/should prioritise these groups too?
How about something like this? Are there others? We could offer an
> We'll need to make this a bit crisper, but let's identify the main categories and then we can wordsmith.
explanation of each as well.
4> Purchasers
1> Vendors
2> Integrators
3> Users
5> Authorities
An interesting point - they are likely to be more interested in
> I think I'd add:
>
> 6) Third-party certification labs
quantitative outputs than the other groups.
It seems likely there will be increasing involvement from these
> Any others? In particular, would conformity assessment documents, etc., be of use to government, to ICT policy makers, etc., or do they think of conformance and interoperability as merely a detail to be left to vendors to sort out?
groups, particularly around 'proving' a standard rather than accepting
it for face value. Making this task easier for them is arguably a
noble cause.
Ok so what is in place for ODF and other similar groups? Locking it
> > Presumably 1g refers to a 'natural language', in which case US
> > English seems the obvious choice (presumably this should be the same
> > as the ODF TC).
>
> I'm not sure if the question is referring to the language of our formal output, or the language used in our conference calls and mailing list.
>
> I think our formal outputs should be in US English, but for the mailing list and phone calls, any form of English should be fine.
down to 'US English' in light of the formal outputs and tolerating a
few s's and z's could be the best option, or simply specify 'English'?
Sam
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