OpenDocument TC coordination call draft minutes 2008-03-31

OpenDocument TC coordination
call draft minutes 2008-03-31

* Called to order at 10:03 EDT

* Rollcall

Rob Weir, IBM (Presiding)

Helen Yue, IBM

Mingfei Jia, IBM

Warren Turkal, Google

Oliver-Rainer Wittmann, Sun Microsystems

Eike Rathke, Sun Micrososystems

Florian Reuter, Novell

Bob Jolliffe, South Africa
Dept. of Science & Technology

David Wheeler, Institute for
Defense Analyses 

Patrick Durusau, Individual

8 of 11 voting members being present, a quorum was achieved.

* Rob reviewed the OASIS TC
voting rules, in particular how meeting attendance determines who can vote.
 Details can be found in section 2.4 here (http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php#membership).
 

Warren will receive initial
voting rights when this meeting adjourns.

* The TC had a brief discussion
on how decisions are made, what things require a vote, which things are
determined by consensus or by lack of objection.  Patrick recommended
that the meeting minutes clearly indicate how decisions were determined.

* No meeting minutes were
approved.  We're awaiting meeting minutes from the March 17th call,
which Michael will write up.

* The TC discussed the status
of the draft corrigenda that Patrick is producing in response to the J/SC34
defect report.  Patrick wil recast the draft into a more concise form,
as editing instructions for the TC to review and approve.  Patrick
will discuss this with Murata-san in Oslo, at the SC34 Plenary to see if
that is satisfactory.

* Rob has the action item
to review our errata plan with OASIS staff, since the ISO and OASIS processes
are not perfectly aligned.  We might be able to propose a change to
the OASIS process.

* Discussion of presentation
play modes.  "Play" versus "Edit".  This
appears to be a more general concern than just presentations.  David
raised the example of the XO laptop, and how a read-only, "Play"
mode of a text document might be appropriate as well.  Bob suggested
there might be a wider set of actions than just "Play" and "Edit"

After much discussion, it
appears the (non mutually exclusive) options are:

1) A narrowly targeted setting
in presentation for the Play mode, true/false.

1a) Same as 1) but do it for
all application types

2) A fixed set of modes across
all application types, but wider than just Play and Edit.

3) Push the setting out to
manifest file rather than in the document markup

These should be discussed
more on the mailing list.

The meeting was adjourned
at 10:59 EDT