XLIFF TC 2006 F2F Agenda

XLIFF TC Face 2 Face 2006

Date: Thursday, 9 November

Time: 3pm – 6pm CET

Location: Wiesbaden, Germany Tekom conference
centre (exact room location still pending – if attending Tekom, please check
your email on Wednesday or send me contact/mobile phone details and I’ll
call back with details ASAP)

Dial-up instructions:  it appears venue does not
support teleconferencing capability so apologies to those planning to dial-in. An
audio recording of the meeting shall be attempted and will be posted for the
TC. If provisions can be made for teleconferencing, dial-up instructions will
be provided ASAP.

Note: Meeting may not achieve quorum.  If this is the
case, the resulting meeting deliverables shall be referred to the TC as
recommendations for formal action at the next TC teleconference.

 

Tony’s mobile phone number is:  +353.87.2479057
and will be operational at the conference.

 

Agenda: 

 

1/Welcome and Introductions

  a. Adjustments to Agenda

2/Survey of Recent XLIFF TC Deliverables

  a. XLIFF 1.2 Committee Draft Spec

  b. XLIFF Representation Guides

     i (X)HTML

     ii +PO/POT Gettext Files

     iii +Java Resource Bundles

3/Remaining 1.2 Deliverables

   a. XLIFF 1.2 Committee Draft & (X)HTML
Representation Guide Public Review #2 (15 days)

   b XLIFF 1.2 Committee Spec Ballot

   c OASIS Organisational Member Affidavits of Use
of Spec

   d Submission of XLIFF 1.2 and Representation
Guides to OASIS Standards Review

4/Strategic Planning

   a. What’s next after XLIFF 1.2?

      i. Additional Representation
Guides?

         Which
formats shall we target? Shall we work on .NET/Win32?

      ii. Guides / Reference
Implementations for Interoperability with Other Standards?

         Already
some work with DITA, ITS – can build upon this by implementing reference
transformations / processes

         Shall the
committee consider closer more formal collaboration with ITS & DITA committees?

         Proof of
Concept implementations such as XML/XLIFF round-trip tool?

      iii. XLIFF Revision?  XLIFF
1.2 or XLIFF 2.0?

         Is it time yet
to start discussing a new release?

         Subsetting
/ restricting XSD as proposed by Christian

         Terminology
Markup?  Has been suggested by Kara Warburton of IBM some time ago to
support terminology markup such as translate
(yes/no), subject-categorization, type, etc.

       iv. Adoption Evangelism?

          
Journal Articles? Conferences? IGNITE? 

          
Who? What? When?

       v. Does our TC Charter
accurately reflect what we’re working towards?

     b. Membership

         Is there
anyone we should reach out to?

     c. TC Leadership

         Who is interested
in taking on the Role of Co-Chair?  Editor?  Secretary?

     d. TC Practices

         Do we want
to consider any changes to our monthly teleconferences? E.g., do we want to
consider becoming an email-only TC, or increase the frequency of calls?

         Do we want
to develop and use a TC Wiki?  Source-control? Other means of
communications or collaboration?

5/ Action Item Review & Closure

 

Tony Jewtushenko

Director- R&D - Product Innovator Ltd.
(Ireland) 

P: +353.1.8875183; M: +353.87.2479057; W: www.productinnovator.com