Minutes of CGM Open Telecon - 24 January 2003

Participants

Dave Cruikshank, Boeing
Kevin O'Kane,Auto-trol
Ulrich Laesche, Ematek
Don Larson, Larson Software Technology
Forrest Carpenter, SDI
Andrew Moorhouse, MOD UK
John Gebhardt, Corel
Gabriella, Rist,Individual (Lieberr)
Lofton Henderson, Program Director

Agenda/Discussion

Product web pages

General Approach

• Move WebCGM navigation in navigation pane up from the technical page to the same level as technical on the main CGM Open home page
• Replace "Resources" line in navigation pane with "WebCGM & Products" and move Resources down to WebCGM home page
• Acition Item: Lofton will work with the OASIS web master to accomplish this

Specific critiques

• Each of the main sub pages in the WebCGM home page should have a link bar at top and bottom to go to WebCGM Home, Overview, FAQ, and Products
• Overview page
  Put a running heading (title line) for each paragraph and put a TOC at the top of the page to link to each of them
  Move the last paragraph (WebCGM supports the following "intelligent" functions:) and bulleted list to the top of the page.
• Further readings page
  Remove "further readings" page and change link for "further readings" to point to the "suggested readings" page. Move content of "further reading" to "suggested readings" page
• Product pages
  Under title for product type pages, add links to the other product types (suggestion)

Plan for updates

• Short term
  Dieter will update the pages as described above and below.
  If typos are found communicate them directly to Dieter.
• Longer term
  Gabriella will work on a more artistically pleasing design for the pages, possibly to be implemented in the April time frame.

Schedule

• All updates are due to Dieter by Tuesday, Jan 28, 2003
• Go live as soon as possible (as Dieter's schedule allows)
• Vendor proformas are produced and implemented on April 1, 2003
• Web site is updated quarterly after that as needed

Vendor listings

Proformas

• General

A proforma is not necessary for Services and Miscellaneous

Change links on product pages from "WebCGM Support" to "Implementation Support Statement"

Action Item

Each vendor to ensure that the "implementation support statement link links to the correct proforma and notify Dieter if there is an error

Blank proformas are hosted on the web site, once they are filled in the vendor site will host it's own implementation support statement in the form of the proforma

At the beginning of each proforma in the Product area of each proforma, in addition to product name, release/version, and platform, we need to add latest proforma update date.

Action Item:

Dieter to make sure product area of each proforma is aligned with the above requirement

• Viewers and Printers

A determination was made to separate out core requirements from extensions (symbol libraries, ESCAPES, and registered color models)

The first part of the proforma table (all functional overview)

Change to title for key 2 to "Supports all static core functionality"

Add a row for key 3 to say "Supports all extensions to core functionality - for all modules below, satisfies requirements

Change keys 2.11 and 2.12 to 3.1 and 3.2

Unicode is another area that needs further dicussion.

Action Item

Dieter and Lofton will work on this proforma

• Editors

In the first paragraph of the introduction, chanage the wording of the links to "interpreter implementation support statement" and "generator implementation support statement"
The above links to link to blank proforma or completed proformas after April 1 Add a preliminary section to the proforma table dealing with preservation of primitives or elements Go forward with the above addition
Action Item

Kevin will update proforma a forward it to Dieter by Monday, Jan 27,2003

• Toolkits
  Long term goal to align these two proformas
  • Interpreters
    Add Hatch Style Definition
    Go forward with the profile after above addition
    Action Item:
    Forrest will update this proforma and forward to Dieter
  • Generators
    Go forward with this proforma
• Transcoders
  Go forward with this proforma

Product affirmations

• Don has submitted
• Ulrich will submit over weekend
• Kevin will update with an additional product