OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC

OpenDocument TC Meeting Minutes 2006-01-09 and 2005-12-19

  • 1.  OpenDocument TC Meeting Minutes 2006-01-09 and 2005-12-19

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    Subject: OpenDocument TC Meeting Minutes 2006-01-09 and 2005-12-19


    Minutes for 2006-01-09
    
    Attendees
    ---------
    Nathaniel Borenstein	IBM
    Yue Ma	IBM
    Robert Weir	IBM
    Patrick Durusau
    Waldo Bastian	Intel
    David Faure	KDE Project
    Jody Goldberg	Novell
    Michael Brauer	Sun Microsystems
    Peter Korn	Sun Microsystems
    Lars Oppermann	Sun Microsystems
    Florian Reuter	Sun Microsystems
    Bruce D'Arcus	The OpenDocument Foundation, Inc.
    Gary Edwards	The OpenDocument Foundation, Inc.
    David Wheeler	The OpenDocument Foundation, Inc.
    
    Acceptance of Minutes from Last Call
    ------------------------------------
    The minutes were not posted yet. They are attached to this mail.
    
    
    Action Items
    ------------
    - none -
    
    General Topics
    --------------
    Next Monday if a public holiday in the US (Martin Luther King Day). 
    There will be no call on that day.
    
    Starting with the next call, a new conference line (number) will be 
    used. Michael will post the details.
    
    IPR Transition voting should have started on Jan. 5th. The current 
    status is not clear. Michael will check back with OASIS on progress.
    
    Discussed Topics
    -----------------
    
    A11Y:
    Some of the invited experts are still missing. The membership materials 
    have been reviewed for being accessible and were distributed. Peter 
    offered to re-check the materials for any accessibility issues.
    
    Nathaniel will now go forward to organize the first meeting, in around 
    two weeks. A message will be sent out proposing a date.
    
    Michael has also posted a Tagged-PDF version of the specification to the 
    TC page.
    
    There will be a CEN/ISSS workshop on Document Processing for 
    Accessibility in Brussels Jan. 23rd:
    http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200512/msg00031.html
    
    Malte Timmermann from Sun and a co-worker of Nathaniel from IBM will 
    attend the workshop. Also Pim van der Eijk from OASIS will be attending 
    on behalf of the OpenDocument TC.
    
    text-object-position:
    Further discussion via mail (David, Michael) came to the conclusion, 
    that we should live without such hints, as they would only be useful in 
    a very limited number of cases.
    
    Interop for Settings:
    OpenDocument specifies a generic settings container (settings.xml) which 
    is used by OpenOffice.org to store some application specific settings, 
    e.g. concerning some rendering options that were in effect when the 
    document was saved
    Should such settings be standardized, and if yes, to what extend?
    David F.: some of those settings could also be viewed as document-level 
    styles
    Jody, David W.: this has also relevance in the area of spreadsheets, 
    e.g. sheet-specific settings (-> styles)
    David F. and Michael will follow up on this topic
    
    Unique Names for Automatic Styles:
    http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200512/msg00020.html
    currently, the specification does not require the name of automatic 
    styles to be unique, for styles that are defined in styles.xml and in 
    content.xml.
    A future version of the spec should at least contain a 
    'SHOULD'-assertion on style names being unique.
    Style names are also not required to be unique across different 
    style-family, which could be a potential problem for implementors.
    
    New Action Items:
    -----------------
    Michael: post details on new conference line
    Michael: check status for IPR transition
    Nathaniel: start scheduling first A11Y call
    David F., Michael: follow up on settings
    
    Next conference call
    --------------------
    2006-01-23 4PM GMT – 5:00PM GMT
    
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    Minutes for 2005-12-19
    
    Attendees
    ---------
    Nathaniel Borenstein	IBM
    Robert Weir	IBM
    Patrick Durusau
    Waldo Bastian	Intel
    David Faure	KDE Project
    Michael Brauer	Sun Microsystems
    Lars Oppermann	Sun Microsystems
    Gary Edwards	The OpenDocument Foundation, Inc.
    
    Acceptance of Minutes from Last Call
    ------------------------------------
    The attending TC members unanimously accepted the minutes.
    
    Action Items
    ------------
    David, Florian: continue discussion on object-position-hints
      - ongoing
    Rob: prepare start of A11Y SC
      - new version of PDF was sent out
      - ASC should be ready to start after holiday break
    
    General Topics
    --------------
    There will be a new conference line number for this call next year. 
    Details will follow
    
    Michael has prepared a new version of the FAQ. No one had any issues 
    with this new version and it will be posted to the TC page.
    
    Discussed Topics
    -----------------
    Meta Data:
    
    The first phase of working on the OpenDocument meta data model is to 
    define a mapping from the meta data as it is in the spec now to the RDF 
    data model.
    This mapping should also conform to the subset of the RDF data model 
    that XMP is using
    The mapping should map some of the meta:-namespace properties to dcq 
    properties if there are appropriate ones available.
    Lars and Florian are working on the mapping.
    
    The second phase will address the extensibility of the Open Document 
    meta data facility.
    Michael will collect requirements for this second phase.
    Phase 2 should enable application developers, to store those meta data 
    attributes that are needed by their users.
    
    The first two phases do not cover meta data statements on specific parts 
    of a document (e.g. individual paragraphs). This will be covered in a 
    third phase.
    It is not yet clear to which kinds of objects, metadata should be 
    attachable. One might think of XML elements or specific objects, that 
    have meaning in the context of a specific document, e.g. paragraphs in 
    text documents. Also for this phase, requirements are still needed.
    
    New Action Items:
    -----------------
    - none -
    
    Next conference call
    --------------------
    2006-01-09 4PM GMT – 5:00PM GMT
    
    


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