ODF Adoption TC - 18 March 2008 - Minutes

Dear ODF Adoption TC Members:

Here are the minutes of today's TC meeting:

Attendees: 

- Don Harbison, Co-Chair, IBM

- Rob Weir

- Alan Clark

Members: 3 of 36 (8%)

Voting Members: 3 of 7 (42%) (used for
quorum calculation) 

** A quorum was not achieved.

Erwin and Louis send their regrets.
They were unable to attend due to travel and other conflicts.

Rob noted that the ODF TC has (3) new
members: Warren Turkel (sp?), Google; Jomar Silva, ODF Alliance Brasil;
and Bob Joliffe, Science & Technology, Government of South Africa.
Welcome!

Don called for renewed efforts to recruit
new members to the ODF Adoption TC

Don noted we need to resolve the issue
of international conference calling numbers; the current number places
an undue burden on callers outside of North America. Action: Don and Erwin
to resolve.

Rob updated us on the current actions
and business of the ODF TC; i.e. focus has been on completing Errata documentation,
correcting grammatical and minor editorial errors reported by the Japanese
team working on translating the ODF specification into Japanese.

Don highlighted the need for the Adoption
TC members to focus on content deliverables, citing the increased competition
of MSFT and their massive investment in marketing OOXML, especially the
http://openxmldeveloper.org/default.aspx
web site, with its attendant content and community building activities.
The http://opendocument.xml.org
site continues to need more focus and content. 

Rob suggested actively liaison'ing with
the ODF Fellowship to tie together developer content between the two sites
more proactively

We had an extensive discussion on the
need to refresh the ODF Interop workplan starting in April. 

It was agreed to establish a working
area on the Web; i.e. perhaps a wiki at OASIS for hosting interop work,
test suite documents, forums, etc. We believe we have most of this infrastructure
ready and waiting on opendocument.xml.org

Document Freedom Day is next Week, March
26th. There will be special events in many cities. 

Rob to investigate possibility of delivering
a lightning talk to the upcoming Linux Foundation, Collaboration Summit
and Desktop Architects Meeting in Austin, TX, April 8 - 10th. Rob will
contact John Walicki, Chair of Linux Desktop Working Group.

Next Adoption TC call is April 1, 2008...
no joke!

Don Harbison

Program Director, IBM ODF Initiative

Business & Technical Strategy

IBM Software Group

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