OpenDocument TC coordination call draft minutes 2007-11-12

OpenDocument TC coordination call draft minutes 2007-11-12

* Called to order at 10:05 EST

* Rollcall

Rob Weir, IBM (Presiding)

Bruce D'Arcus, Individual

Michael Brauer, Sun Microsystems

Lars Opperman, Sun Microsystems

Eike Rathke,Sun Microsystems

Oliver-Rainer Wittmann, Sun Microsystems

Helen Yue, IBM

Ma Yue, IBM

David Wheeler, Institute for Defense Analyses

Peter Vandenabeele, Individual

Patrick Durusau, Individual

6 of 8 voting members being present, a quorum was
declared.

* Weir made a brief statement on the informal and formal dispute resolution
processes available to TC members,including the formal appeals process
defined by the OASIS Technical Committee Process for Appeals:  http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php#s4.2
. 

* The minutes of 5 November 2007, as posted to the
TC list, were approved by unanimous consent.

* Action Items

- (Not completed) Work continues on defining the default
values.  Vandenabeele noted the difficulty with fonts, since these
are system-dependent.  Wheeler noted that a perfect solution is impossible
in general, though in practice referring to Microsoft's "Core Font
Pack" was a good solution in practice.  Opperman explained that
one solution is to store more information about the fonts, allowing a runtime
resolution to pick the most appropriate font from those actually on the
machine.

- (Not completed) Brauer notes that he is almost done
with the XSLT transform for processing the OpenFormula draft in order to
remove the hidden sections.  He will post to the file library when
complete.

- (Completed) Brauer reported on whether a connector
can connect to another connector, noting that ODF allows this to be encoded,though
OpenOffice.org does not allow the user to do this. Weir reported that PowerPoint
2007 does not appear to allow this either.

* Proposals

- The "<svg:desc> <svg:title> for
drawing pages" proposal was accepted by unanimous consent.  

* Discussion

- Discussion on Reuter's fields request and subsequent
analysis by Wittmann
and D'Arcus.  No consensus was reached. An informal poll of members
indicates that option #1 had little support, leaving options 2-5 for further
discussion.

- Oppermann reminded us that this was his last TC meeting, since he is
changing jobs.  The TC thanked him for his service as Secretary and
wished him well.

The meeting was adjourned at 11:06 EST