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  • 1.  New Co-Chair election

    Posted 05-26-2015 20:13
    Greetings! I'm sure you are all as saddened as I am by Oliver Rainer-Wittman's pending resignation as co-chair of the ODF TC. Oliver has been a valuable member of this TC for a very long time and I am sure we all appreciate his service to the TC. Our next meeting is on: June 8, 2015 and I would like for us to choose and elect a new co-chair to the TC at that meeting. I know everyone is likely to volunteer at one time and that's ok. We can work out the details between now and the meeting. Please consult with your management and post your willingness to serve as the ODF TC co-chair to this mailing list. Thanks! Hope everyone is at the start of a great week! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net Technical Advisory Board, OASIS (TAB) OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300 Co-Editor 13250-5 (Topic Maps) Another Word For It (blog): http://tm.durusau.net Homepage: http://www.durusau.net Twitter: patrickDurusau


  • 2.  Re: [office] New Co-Chair election

    Posted 05-26-2015 20:33
    On 05/26/2015 10:13 PM, Patrick Durusau wrote: > Greetings! > > I'm sure you are all as saddened as I am by Oliver Rainer-Wittman's > pending resignation as co-chair of the ODF TC. Oliver has been a > valuable member of this TC for a very long time and I am sure we all > appreciate his service to the TC. > > Our next meeting is on: June 8, 2015 and I would like for us to choose > and elect a new co-chair to the TC at that meeting. > > I know everyone is likely to volunteer at one time and that's ok. We can > work out the details between now and the meeting. > > Please consult with your management and post your willingness to serve > as the ODF TC co-chair to this mailing list. Hi, ODF is really important to Collabora, and we'd love to help co-chair and steward its future development together with the TC. Best regards, -- Andras Timar Product Development Manager Collabora Productivity Ltd. https://libreoffice-from-collabora.com/


  • 3.  Re: [office] New Co-Chair election

    Posted 05-28-2015 19:03
    Andras, Thanks! Hope you are having a great day! Patrick On 05/26/2015 04:33 PM, Andras Timar wrote: On 05/26/2015 10:13 PM, Patrick Durusau wrote: Greetings! I'm sure you are all as saddened as I am by Oliver Rainer-Wittman's pending resignation as co-chair of the ODF TC. Oliver has been a valuable member of this TC for a very long time and I am sure we all appreciate his service to the TC. Our next meeting is on: June 8, 2015 and I would like for us to choose and elect a new co-chair to the TC at that meeting. I know everyone is likely to volunteer at one time and that's ok. We can work out the details between now and the meeting. Please consult with your management and post your willingness to serve as the ODF TC co-chair to this mailing list. Hi, ODF is really important to Collabora, and we'd love to help co-chair and steward its future development together with the TC. Best regards, -- Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net Technical Advisory Board, OASIS (TAB) OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300 Co-Editor 13250-5 (Topic Maps) Another Word For It (blog): http://tm.durusau.net Homepage: http://www.durusau.net Twitter: patrickDurusau


  • 4.  Re: [office] New Co-Chair election

    Posted 06-08-2015 00:50
    Hello, I am happy to announce that the company I recently started working for "CIB labs GmbH" is going to join OASIS and is going to fund my future work on ODF. In addition I am able to prioritize ODF as one of my highest goals in my daily work and not only revive our subcommittee, but offer my assistance as a co-chair. I am certain the long experience in the ODF TC will assist me in that task and new colleagues like Thorsten Behrens will assist me in questions in regard of implementation details of ODF applications. My main focus will be on the timely provision of a new version of ODF  Unfortunately I will not be able to participate in our next call, as I am still at a Pattern Recognition Conference in Boston. With best regards, Svante On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 10:13 PM, Patrick Durusau < patrick@durusau.net > wrote: Greetings! I'm sure you are all as saddened as I am by Oliver Rainer-Wittman's pending resignation as co-chair of the ODF TC. Oliver has been a valuable member of this TC for a very long time and I am sure we all appreciate his service to the TC. Our next meeting is on: June 8,  2015 and I would like for us to choose and elect a new co-chair to the TC at that meeting. I know everyone is likely to volunteer at one time and that's ok. We can work out the details between now and the meeting. Please consult with your management and post your willingness to serve as the ODF TC co-chair to this mailing list. Thanks! Hope everyone is at the start of a great week! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net Technical Advisory Board, OASIS (TAB) OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300 Co-Editor 13250-5 (Topic Maps) Another Word For It (blog): http://tm.durusau.net Homepage: http://www.durusau.net Twitter: patrickDurusau --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that generates this mail.  Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php


  • 5.  Re: [office] New Co-Chair election

    Posted 06-08-2015 11:59
    On Tuesday 26 May 2015 16:13:08 Patrick Durusau wrote: > Our next meeting is on: June 8, 2015 and I would like for us to choose > and elect a new co-chair to the TC at that meeting. > > I know everyone is likely to volunteer at one time and that's ok. We can > work out the details between now and the meeting. > > Please consult with your management and post your willingness to serve > as the ODF TC co-chair to this mailing list. Dear TC, I would also like to offer my services to chair the TC. I've been a member of the TC for KDE since 2010 and think it is one of the most important standards in the industry: people generally create two types of documents: email and office documents. It is of vital importance for good communication and durability that these documents follow a good standard. Since October last year I've been employed by the Dutch government after doing ODF related work for them since 2010. The department that I work at has graciously allowed me to attend the TC during work hours as a representative for KDE. The Dutch government has been recommending ODF as a standard for the exchange of editable documents since 2008. The department for standards development has now offered to enable me to spend two days per week on working on and chairing the TC for at least two years. This is the amount of time per week that Oliver recommends for the task if the goal is more than fixing errors and importing existing extensions. This offer stresses the importance that the government sees in a reliable standard. In addition, in September, there will another plugfest for ODF. This one will be hosted in The Hague. To ensure the future of ODF, I feel the TC should be more outgoing and find more users and implementors of ODF to join the TC. For the future of the standard I see a few areas of importance: modularisation, testability, interoperability with the web and web standards, change tracking, and standardizing a scripting language. In these topics, the needs of the users of the standards are most important and the TC should channel these in a sensible standard that market partners can support well. Best regards, Jos van den Oever


  • 6.  Re: [office] New Co-Chair election

    Posted 06-09-2015 16:38
    Dear TC, I am more than happy to hear that the Dutch government is supporting ODF in such great manner and supporting Jos in becoming ODF TC chair. His long term experiences on the ODF format, standardization and various ODF applications might only be outreached by myself. ;) To give him my full support, I am hereby stepping back from my candidate.  I will focus on the work in the "Advanced Document Collaboration" subcommittee and looking forward to a revived work from myself under the flag of CIB in the SC/TC. Best regards, Svante Schubert On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Jos van den Oever < jos@vandenoever.info > wrote: On Tuesday 26 May 2015 16:13:08 Patrick Durusau wrote: > Our next meeting is on: June 8,  2015 and I would like for us to choose > and elect a new co-chair to the TC at that meeting. > > I know everyone is likely to volunteer at one time and that's ok. We can > work out the details between now and the meeting. > > Please consult with your management and post your willingness to serve > as the ODF TC co-chair to this mailing list. Dear TC, I would also like to offer my services to chair the TC. I've been a member of the TC for KDE since 2010 and think it is one of the most important standards in the industry: people generally create two types of documents: email and office documents. It is of vital importance for good communication and durability that these documents follow a good standard. Since October last year I've been employed by the Dutch government after doing ODF related work for them since 2010. The department that I work at has graciously allowed me to attend the TC during work hours as a representative for KDE. The Dutch government has been recommending ODF as a standard for the exchange of editable documents since 2008. The department for standards development has now offered to enable me to spend two days per week on working on and chairing the TC for at least two years. This is the amount of time per week that Oliver recommends for the task if the goal is more than fixing errors and importing existing extensions. This offer stresses the importance that the government sees in a reliable standard. In addition, in September, there will another plugfest for ODF. This one will be hosted in The Hague. To ensure the future of ODF, I feel the TC should be more outgoing and find more users and implementors of ODF to join the TC. For the future of the standard I see a few areas of importance: modularisation, testability, interoperability with the web and web standards, change tracking, and standardizing a scripting language. In these topics, the needs of the users of the standards are most important and the TC should channel these in a sensible standard that market partners can support well. Best regards, Jos van den Oever --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that generates this mail.  Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php


  • 7.  Re: [office] New Co-Chair election

    Posted 06-08-2015 12:59
    Dear TC members, it is really a pleasure to see that already three candidates showed up to take over the responsibilities as a TC co-chair. This is a demonstration of the importance of the ODF standard. Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards Oliver-Rainer Wittmann -- Advisory Software Engineer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IBM Deutschland Beim Strohhause 17 20097 Hamburg Phone: +49-40-6389-1415 E-Mail: orwitt@de.ibm.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH / Vorsitzende des Aufsichtsrats: Martina Koederitz Geschäftsführung: Dirk Wittkopp Sitz der Gesellschaft: Böblingen / Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294 From:         Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net> To:         OASIS OpenDocument TC List <office@lists.oasis-open.org> Date:         2015-05-26 22:13 Subject:         [office] New Co-Chair election Sent by:         <office@lists.oasis-open.org> Greetings! I'm sure you are all as saddened as I am by Oliver Rainer-Wittman's pending resignation as co-chair of the ODF TC. Oliver has been a valuable member of this TC for a very long time and I am sure we all appreciate his service to the TC. Our next meeting is on: June 8,  2015 and I would like for us to choose and elect a new co-chair to the TC at that meeting. I know everyone is likely to volunteer at one time and that's ok. We can work out the details between now and the meeting. Please consult with your management and post your willingness to serve as the ODF TC co-chair to this mailing list. Thanks! Hope everyone is at the start of a great week! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net Technical Advisory Board, OASIS (TAB) OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300 Co-Editor 13250-5 (Topic Maps) Another Word For It (blog): http://tm.durusau.net Homepage: http://www.durusau.net Twitter: patrickDurusau --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that generates this mail.  Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php


  • 8.  Re: [office] New Co-Chair election

    Posted 06-08-2015 14:13
    Have we discussed how to conduct a vote with more than two candidates?  Does OASIS have a requirement for how we do this?   -Rob  
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  • 9.  Re: [office] New Co-Chair election

    Posted 06-08-2015 14:33
    Rob, I pasted this in the chat: ***** Any TC chair or co-chair election shall be by Full Majority Vote of the TC, with each winning candidate having received a full majority vote regardless of the number of candidates. ***** I just issued an electronic ballot. Hope you are having a great week! Patrick On 06/08/2015 10:12 AM, Robert Weir wrote: Have we discussed how to conduct a vote with more than two candidates?  Does OASIS have a requirement for how we do this?   -Rob  
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