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[actf-dev] ACTF Committer's August 18 Meeting Minutes
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Fellow ACTF
members:
Please review. These
minutes require your approval during our September conference call. Date and
time to be announced by September 5, 2008. I've also attached the minutes in a
text document to this post.
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ACTF Committers Meeting - Minutes
Date: August
19, 2008
1. Roll call/Scribe - Attending: Chieko, Hiro,
Kentarou, Mike Squillace, Simon Harper, Yeliz Yesilada, Mike Paciello. Regrets:
Makoto, Steve Faulkner.
Scribe Mike P. Action Item: Mike P., to post minutes
to ACTF-DEV listserv.
2. Update to Meeting Times: ACTF full committee
meetings will take place on a monthly basis. Action Item: ACTF co-chairs to
determine
time and report back to committee during first week of September.
Post to the ACTF-DEV and Technology-PMC listservs.
3. ACTF Release Schedule: Kentarou and Mike S.,
reported that next interim release is scheduled for September. Release
versioning
will be adjusted to ensure that there is a single, consistent
versioning scheme. Mike S., and Kentarou agreed that next release
would
officially be called, "Version 0.5". No Action required.
4. Documentation for ACTF: Some documentation
exists for various parts of the framework, including SDK's, A-Designer,
AI-Browser.
Mike S., advised that this is an area that needs improvement.
There is a specific request to focus on Java and Web Validation
reference
and use case documentation. Mike P., advised that there is a need to create "How
To"-type documents for creating
validation rules sets for each tool. Action
Item: ACTF Co-Chairs to solicit committee help via
5. Community Outreach: Based on encouragement from
Wayne Beaton of Eclipse.Org, ACTF co-chairs have been advised that there
is
an important and urgent need to focus on community outreach. Committers
agreed that our primary target audience includes application
tool developers,
universities, and commercial businesses looking for validation tools. Mike S.,
has specifically contacted web
validation tool companies including DeQue,
Parasoft and HiSoftware, all of whom have expressed interest. Several action
items resulted
from this discussion, as follows:
Action Item: Co-Chairs and committers to search for
best conferences to conduct tutorials and various presentations. Post
these
suggestions to ACTF-DEV listserv.
Action Item: Chieko, Yeliz, Kentarou, and Simon to
attend and participate at ASSETS, October 13-15, in Halifax,
Canada.
Action Item: Co-Chairs to develop new ACTF program
announcement to build more project awareness. Yeliz to cross post all ACTF
announcements to
various Accessibility listservs.
Action Item: Kentarou and Mike S., to coordinate
next release announcement and post to ACTF-DEV and Technology-PMC listservs.
Yeliz to
cross post to various Accessibility listservs.
Action Item: Kentarou to update ACTF web
site.
Action Item: Hiro, Makoto, Mike P., and Mike S. to
focus on industry outreach via Bugzilla, ACTF-Dev, invitations to
ACTF
monthly meetings, and potential commercial use cases. Mike P., will contact
Ramada and CA, and invite them to
participate in September conference
call.
Respectfully
submitted,
ACTF Committers Meeting - Minutes
Date: August 19, 2008
1. Roll call/Scribe - Attending: Chieko, Hiro, Kentarou, Mike Squillace, Simon Harper, Yeliz Yesilada, Mike Paciello. Regrets: Makoto, Steve Faulkner.
Scribe Mike P. Action Item: Mike P., to post minutes to ACTF-DEV listserv.
2. Update to Meeting Times: ACTF full committee meetings will take place on a monthly basis. Action Item: ACTF co-chairs to determine
time and report back to committee during first week of September. Post to the ACTF-DEV and Technology-PMC listservs.
3. ACTF Release Schedule: Kentarou and Mike S., reported that next interim release is scheduled for September. Release versioning
will be adjusted to ensure that there is a single, consistent versioning scheme. Mike S., and Kentarou agreed that next release
would officially be called, "Version 0.5". No Action required.
4. Documentation for ACTF: Some documentation exists for various parts of the framework, including SDK's, A-Designer, AI-Browser.
Mike S., advised that this is an area that needs improvement. There is a specific request to focus on Java and Web Validation
reference and use case documentation. Mike P., advised that there is a need to create "How To"-type documents for creating
validation rules sets for each tool. Action Item: ACTF Co-Chairs to solicit committee help via
5. Community Outreach: Based on encouragement from Wayne Beaton of Eclipse.Org, ACTF co-chairs have been advised that there is
an important and urgent need to focus on community outreach. Committers agreed that our primary target audience includes application
tool developers, universities, and commercial businesses looking for validation tools. Mike S., has specifically contacted web
validation tool companies including DeQue, Parasoft and HiSoftware, all of whom have expressed interest. Several action items resulted
from this discussion, as follows:
Action Item: Co-Chairs and committers to search for best conferences to conduct tutorials and various presentations. Post these
suggestions to ACTF-DEV listserv.
Action Item: Chieko, Yeliz, Kentarou, and Simon to attend and participate at ASSETS, October 13-15, in Halifax, Canada.
Action Item: Co-Chairs to develop new ACTF program announcement to build more project awareness. Yeliz to cross post all ACTF announcements to
various Accessibility listservs.
Action Item: Kentarou and Mike S., to coordinate next release announcement and post to ACTF-DEV and Technology-PMC listservs. Yeliz to
cross post to various Accessibility listservs.
Action Item: Kentarou to update ACTF web site.
Action Item: Hiro, Makoto, Mike P., and Mike S. to focus on industry outreach via Bugzilla, ACTF-Dev, invitations to
ACTF monthly meetings, and potential commercial use cases. Mike P., will contact Ramada and CA, and invite them to
participate in September conference call.
