OpenDocument TC coordination call draft minutes 2008-01-28

OpenDocument TC coordination
call draft minutes 2008-01-28

* Called to order at 10:02 EST

* Rollcall

Rob Weir, IBM (Presiding)

Michael Brauer, Sun Microsystems

Oliver-Rainer Wittmann, Sun Microsystems

Helen Yue, IBM 

Mingfei Jia, IBM

Florian Reuter, Novell

Bob Jolliffe, South Africa
Dept. of Science & Technology

David Wheeler, Institute for
Defense Analyses 

Patrick Durusau, Individual

7 of 10 voting members being present, a quorum was achieved.

* Florian proposed a new item
for the agenda: discussion of the DIN working group on interoperability.
Without objection the agenda was amended.

* The minutes of 21 January 2008, as posted to the TC list, were approved
by unanimous consent.

* Action Items

- (Not completed) Work continues on defining the default values.  Ma
Yue is working on collecting values from Lotus Symphony.  -- Rob and
Helen to follow up with Ma.

- (Not completed) Oliver is working on text field proposal and hopes to
have something we can vote on by end of week.

- (completed) Michael posted
update on automatic styles proposal: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200801/msg00031.html

- (completed) Electronic Ballot
for ODF Accessibility Guidelines document has been requested.  Michael
and Rob will confirm voting eligibility based on meeting attendance, according
to the minutes.

- (completed) Michael gas
divided the SVG integer/float question into two proposals

- (in progress)Feedback is
being sought from David Faure

- (not started) bullet lists
with constant strings.

* Updates from SC's and Ad-hoc's

- Patrick reported that the ODF 1.0 errata document is progressing well
and a draft should be available in approximately a week.

- Patrick also reported that
the Metadata Committee's work is ready for review by the full TC, and that
they will be seeking approval of its document as a committee draft in two
weeks.

- David reported that the
formula SC has an outstanding technical issue regarding date counting conventions,
that the desire is to reproduce Excel's behavior, but there was no published
information that explains these conventions in detail.

-- Rob noted that the Ecma
proposed Disposition of Comments report on DIS 29500, recently submitted
to JTC1, has additional detail here, but that it was not public.  The
information is contained in Ecma's responses 109 and 167.

-- (new action item) Florian
will check with Ecma to see if this material can be made public and sent
to the ODF TC.

* Discussion

- Florian reported on an WG
effort in DIN, the German nation standards body, on defining a mapping
between ODF 1.0 and Ecma-376

-- If the WG has questions,
they could send these questions to the ODF TC.    The ODF TC
unanimously adopted a resolution last year that made it clear that we welcome
any such questions, saying in part:

"..[T]he ODF TC welcomes
any questions from ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 and member NB's regarding OpenDocument
Format, the functionality it describes, the planned evolution of this standard,
and its relationship to other work on the technical agenda of JTC1/SC34."

--The full resolution is here:
 http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200702/msg00076.html

-- There are also defined
OASIS policies around creating liaisons if that route is preferred by the
TC:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/liaison_policy.php#tcliaison

The meeting was adjourned
at 11:02 EST