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Subject: ODF Adoption TC Call - July 25, 2006 - Minutes
Roll Call ========= Donald Harbison, IBM Alan Milnes, IBM Robert Weir, IBM Alan Clark, Novell Gary Edwards, OpenDocument Foundation David Eisenberg, OpenDocument Foundation Sam Hiser, OpenDocument Foundation Dhananjay Keskar, Intel Acceptance of minutes =================== As we were again non-quorate this was deferred. It was agreed that we should try to follow up those people with whom we had no recent contact. Interoperability Discussion and Next Steps =============================== - DITA Don encouraged everyone to look at the recent correspondence on this from OASIS. - XForms Current ODF implementation does not fully support XForms. Don asked the Technical TC Members for thoughts - Robert Weir said that it was recognised but not at the top of the agenda. Gary Edwards outlined the importance of XForms to ODF, it had been included at the request of the EU. If XForms was not fully supported then a document may be converted to (X)HTML and some data left. Don suggested that we should perhaps put together a short guide to current XForms support, this could then be used to consider what should go into ODF v1.2. Erwin had already written a white paper on this for Open Office - it was agreed we should look to have this on the focus area. Update from ODF TC ================== - 1.0 (2nd Edition) Now agreed, no schema changes but non-substantial editorial changes. - 1.1 (including accessibility improvements) This was now going forward for a 60 day comment period. Would then consider if we wanted to make this an OASIS Standard or just a committee one. - Formulas Formula sub-committee was now progressing well. IBM had committed the copyrights for the 123 documentation which was very helpful. - Planning for 1.2 Date not agreed yet. Much work is being done at the sub-committee level. The Adoption TC should consider any requirements and submit them within a month or so. OpenOffice.org CON ================== ODF Track on September 13th including a keynote speech from Google's Zaheda Bhorat. Round table including SUN and IBM reps. Don encouraged everyone to look at the ODF day at akademy 2006, Dublin, Sep 26 ======================================= Audience here was developers who would be the people implementing ODF support in their applications. Intention is a technical session that would be developed via a wiki process. Ryder Cup is on at the same time so book early for hotels! Progress on deliverables ======================== In Erwin's absence there was no update. ODF Viewer ========== David reported on the work he was doing on this. He would welcome any guidance on what should be prioritised. Gary felt there was some merit in an AJAX based framework which could then be a foundation for someone else. He also discussed some ideas round PDF / ODF and helping corporates with the challenges they face in this area. MS ECMA ======= There was some discussion round this and how the standard was effectively tied to specific applications. Interoperability was difficult if tied to the Windows GDI or specific clip-art! Don pointed out that this related back to the XForms discussion. Gary pointed out how ECMA was being used on Server based Services such as Exchange and Sharepoint. He wondered if the community, especially J2EE developers, had really understood this and the implications It was important that we developed our site and really make it a focus area that developers could turn to. Gary elaborated on the work they were doing on the ODF Converter plug-in and how difficult it was to convert MS Office data outside the application due to the nature of the data binding. The meeting was adjourned at this stage. Regards, Alan Milnes IT Architect Outsourcing Infrastructure Solutions Service Delivery Operations IT Delivery Operations (UK, Ireland and South Africa) IBM Global Technology Services, EMEA Tel: (+44) [0] 7764-660 709 (Mobex: 272952) Internet: milnea@uk.ibm.com
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