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OpenDocuemnt TC Work Call Minutes 2006-10-30

  • 1.  OpenDocuemnt TC Work Call Minutes 2006-10-30

    Posted 11-09-2006 14:55
    Roll call
    
    Robert Weir, IBM
    Patric Durusau
    David Faure, KDE
    Jody Goldberg, Novell
    Lars Oppermann, Sun Microsystems
    David A Wheeler, OpenDocument Foundation
    Gary Edwards, OpenDocument Foundation
    
    
    Meeting minutes
    The attending TC members unanimously accepted the minutes from the last
    coordination call.
    
    Action items
    - none
    
    ODF 1.2, parts
    
    Rob: multiple documents but a single standard
        benefits are obvious
        might have editorial overhead
    
    Lars: what are the three parts
    
    DavidW. original ODF, formula, metadata
    
    DavidW: formula
    it's specifically designed to support ODF
    but could be used without
    
    Lars: think packing was also a candidate
        maybe also accessibility
    
    David: database?
    Lars: keeping high-level documents in one doc makes sense because of overlap
    
    Rob: is there any benefit in having different standards?
        might make things harder for national bodies
    
    Parick: DSDL is made up from multiple standards moving along individually
        we can have different parts but there should be one standard
    
    Rob: what about a scenario where different parts of an ISO document
    standards come from different sources.
    
    Lars: DSDL comes from different sources
    Patrick: right, only RelaxNG comes from oasis
       other parts where proposed as work items in ISO
    
    Lars: possibility of third party adding part to ISO version
    Patrick: might theoretically be possible, but not very likely
    
    ... all leaning towards option a)
    
    Compatibility
    Lars: Michael sent proposal
    Rob: it says 'that we are compatible except where we are not'
        which is ok, but we should explicitly state what those points are
    
    DavidW. 2-step transition
       apps currently write ooc: stuff
       but add ability to read open-formula
       and that gives people time to transition
    
    DavidW: what about radiants/degree for 1.2
    ACTION: Lars to check
    
    Rob: go through comments again for 1.2 and look whether something is
    still missing
    
    Rob: adoption TC runs odf.xml.org
    they asked me to look whether we can get SC chairs to publish monthly
    updates at the site (at less technical level)
    
    SC chairs should consider this and get back to Erwin
    
    Rob volunteers to interview authors of ODF software and publish on
    XML.org...
    
    
    -- 
    Lars Oppermann