Submitter's message Greetings!
The draft minutes of the ODF TC teleconference on 17 August 2026 are attached. (They are also included in this message.)
I hope this finds everyone at the start of a great week!
Patrick
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Patrick: Apologies, there is no item #5.
anonymous morphed into Regina Henschel
Patrick: Francis, Patrick, Regina, Svante, Michael, Olivier - quorum
Patrick: Minutes of July 27th - approved by consent
Patrick: #3. Action Items
Patrick: #4. Agenda - SC 34 meeting added
Patrick: Oracle - returned OpenOffice to the Community, 15 years ago, nice to be back at an ISO meeting,
Patrick: Agenda approved - with this as #5
Patrick: Francis, convenor of WG 6 - in recent times. 2023 - no technical work in SC34
Patrick: ISO rules have changed, WG needs to be assigned work to exist
Patrick: WG6 - disbanded, but what follows it? SC34 still in charge of technical work on ODF
Svante Schubert: As there is no technical work in WG 6 (ODF) at ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 it was disbanded.
https://www.iso.org/committee/45374.html
Patrick: Need a new structure, but needs to be approved - want a permanent structure in SC34 for collaboration
Patrick: Presently to participate need to be OASIS members, etc.
Svante Schubert: There is a motion in WG 4 (OOXML) to discuss with the ODF TC the formulas of spreadsheets - I send an email to the members of the TC with additional informations as we are liaison members
Patrick: OASIS is a liason member of SC34 - appoint as many experts as it likes
Svante Schubert: There is also a motion in SC 34 - by BSI member Simon Phipps - of an informal joint workshop of the process and content on the future of office formats
Patrick: Rich joined
Regina Henschel: 6.13.8 COUNTBLANK
Regina Henschel: Evaluators shall support one Reference as a parameter and may support a ReferenceList as a parameter.
Patrick: #6: Something similar in COUNTBLANK - can we change the parameter - of IRR - to what is in COUNTBLANK
Regina Henschel: Evaluators shall support one NumberSequence as a parameter and may support a NumberSequenceList as a parameter.
Patrick:
https://oasis-tcs.github.io/odf-tc/odf1.4/part4-formula/OpenDocument-v1.4-part4-formula.html#COUNTBLANK
Patrick: Change type to NumberSequence - then add the sentence
Regina Henschel: Change type to NumberSequence --> Change type to NumberSequenceList
Patrick: language: Compute the internal rate of return for a series of cash flows.
Svante Schubert:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_flow
Svante Schubert:
https://oasis-tcs.github.io/odf-tc/odf1.4/part4-formula/OpenDocument-v1.4-part4-formula.html#NPV
Svante Schubert: Regina stated: NPV has a NumberSequenceList
Michael Stahl: NPV has a NumberSequenceList but IRR does not => inconsistent
Francis Cave: XIRR and XNPV are consistent, but IRR and NPV are not consistent.
Michael Stahl: XNPV does not have a List, and XIRR does not have a List => consistent
Svante Schubert:
https://oasis-tcs.github.io/odf-tc/odf1.4/part4-formula/OpenDocument-v1.4-part4-formula.html#IRR
Patrick:
https://issues.oasis-open.org/projects/OFFICE/issues/OFFICE-4212![^arne_4_26_patrick_7_13_2026.ods]
Patrick:
https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/OFFICE-4211
-- Patrick Durusau
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