OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC

[office] OpenDocument TC coordination call draft minutes 2009-02-16

  • 1.  [office] OpenDocument TC coordination call draft minutes 2009-02-16

    Posted 02-19-2009 10:33
    * Rollcall
      Charles Schulz, Ars Aperta
    +Don Harbison, IBM
    +Mingfei Jia, IBM
      Yue Ma, IBM
    +Rob Weir, IBM
    +Patrick Durusau
    +Dennis E. Hamilton
    +David Wheeler, Institute for Defense Analyses
    +David Faure, KDE e.V.
    +Eric Patterson, Microsoft
    +Stephen Peront, Microsoft
    +Florian Reuter, Novell
    +Jomar Silva, ODF Alliance
      Bob Jolliffe, Republic of South Africa, Department of Science and
    Technology
    +Michael Brauer, Sun Microsystems (presiding)
    +Eike Rathke, Sun Microsystems
    
    Svante Schubert is on a leave of absence
    
    Voting Members are indicated with a + before their name.
    
    * 13/15 voting members present, so quorum requirements have been met.
    
    John Madden will loose voting rights after the end of
    this call.
    
    Bob Jolliffe and Yue Ma will get voting rights after the end of
    this call.
    
    
    * The agenda was approved
    
    
    * Minutes from 2009-02-09 coordination call:
    
    http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200902/msg00123.html
    
    The attending TC members unanimously accepted the minutes.
    
    
    * Status update on SC34 Defect Report N1078
    
    Dennis reported that he has completed the categorization of all defects. 
    The result can be found in the public comment spreadsheet.
    
    The TC agreed to spend about 15 minutes in subsequent calls for the 
    discussion of those defects where a discussion is required in order to 
    propose a resolution.
    
    
    * Approval of OpenDocument v1.2 draft 9 as Committee Draft
    
    http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/31195/OpenDocument-v1.2-draft9.odt
    
    A ballot was conducted whether this draft shall be approved as a 
    committee draft. The votes are as follows:
    
    +Don Harbison, IBM: Yes
    +Mingfei Jia, IBM: Yes
    +Rob Weir, IBM: Yes
    +Patrick Durusau: Yes
    +Dennis E. Hamilton: abstention
    +David Wheeler, Institute for Defense Analyses: Yes
    +David Faure, KDE e.V.: Yes
    +Eric Patterson, Microsoft: No
    +Stephen Peront, Microsoft: No
    +Florian Reuter, Novell: abstention
    +Jomar Silva, ODF Alliance: Yes
    +Michael Brauer, Sun Microsystems (presiding): Yes
    +Eike Rathke, Sun Microsystems: Yes
    
    Results:
    Yes votes: 9
    No votes: 2
    Abstentions: 2
    
    The draft was approved as a committee draft, since 9 out of 15 voting 
    members votes with "Yes", which is a full majority.
    
    Some TC members that voted with "no" indicated that their "no" vote is 
    due to conformance clauses which are included in the draft.
    
    * Discussion of Extension mechanisms
    
    Rob has set up a Wiki page where ODF extension mechanism are listed. The 
    vendors represented in the TC are encouraged to add information where 
    their implementations extend ODF.
    
    * Adjournment
    
    The meeting was adjourned at 5:00pm CET	
    
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