OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC

Open Office XML Format TC Meeting Minutes 21 July 2003

  • 1.  Open Office XML Format TC Meeting Minutes 21 July 2003

    Posted 07-24-2003 14:15
    MINUTES OF THE OASIS OPEN OFFICE XML FORMAT TC MEETING
    JULY, THE 21TH, 2003, 3PM GMT � 3:55PM GMT
    
    Attendees
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    Doug Alberg <doug.alberg@boeing.com>, Boeing
    Michael Brauer <michael.brauer@sun.com>, Sun Microsystems
    Gary Edwards <garyedwards@yahoo.com>
    Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com>, Arbortext
    Jason Harrop <jharrop@speedlegal.com>, SpeedLegal
    Paul Langille <paul.langille@corel.com>, Corel
    Tom Magliery <Tom.Magliery@corel.com>, Corel
    Daniel Vogelheim <daniel.vogelheim@sun.com>, Sun Microsystems
    
    Acceptance of Minutes of the June, the 30th meeting
    Acceptance of Minutes of the July, the 7th meeting
    Acceptance of Minutes of the July, the 14th meeting
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    - The attending TC members unanimously accepted all three minutes.
    
    Action Items
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    - Phil Boutros: create proposal for unifying change tracking in text and 
    table documents
       - in progress
    - Daniel Vogelheim: Comparison of the existing chart specification with 
    David Faure's proposal.
       - done, see
          http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200307/msg00012.html
    - Daniel Vogelheim: Get in contact UBL Forms SC to clarify a relation to 
    the work of that SC.
       - done by Michael Brauer: see below
    
    
    UBL Forms SC
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    The UBL forms SC is publishing formatting specifications for 
    implementors to follow, but no stylesheets or implementations. The SC 
    currently has no requirements for the Open Office TC.
    
    
    Discussion of Work Package 8 Forms
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    The voting about the Modified Forms proposal is in progress. The TC 
    unanimously agreed to leave the rest of the forms specification unchanged.
    
    Discussion of Work Package 7 Business Charts
    --------------------------------------------
    Paul Langille suggested to consider additional chart formats than the 
    two currently under investigation to find additional requirements. He 
    will create a comparison of these formats until August, the 11th, and 
    will afterwards create a concrete proposal together with Daniel Vogelheim.
    
    The TC further discussed the naming and extensibility mechanism used to 
    identify chart and control types. Gary Edwards suggested to check the 
    UBL specification for this. Daniel Vogelheim will create a proposal.
    
    Discussion of Work Package 5 Styles
    -----------------------------------
    The TC agreed to continues its discussion with styles. Michael Brauer 
    will prepare this discussion by summarizing what aspects of styles have 
    been agreed or discussed already.
    
    New Action Items
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    - Paul Langille: additional chart format comparisons
    - Paul Langille,Daniel Vogelheim: proposal for business charts
    - Daniel Vogelheim: Proposal for naming/extensibility of chart and 
    control types.
    - Michael Brauer: Summary of style discussion that took place already
    
    Michael Brauer
    
    OASIS Open Office XML format TC chair