PMC Meeting Minutes
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2004-01-21

Attendes
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Deborah Goldsmith (Apple)
Tex Texin (Xencraft)
Markus Scherer (IBM)
Mark Davis (IBM)
Doug Felt
Vladimir
Goerge Rhoten
Andy Heninger
Eric Mader
Alan Liu
Ram Viswanadha 
Steven Loomis

Agenda
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- ICU 2.8 nearly done - comments?
  + we received one more machine on which we need to test ICU
- ICU homepage improvements (Tex)
- Technical issues with locale data items (Deborah/Apple)
- Feedback on 2004/3.0 task list?
- CLDR Short Status
- getLocale technical issues

Minutes
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Markus: We should be able to ship ICU by the end of the month
Mark: Gave update of CLDR status. We should be releasing CLDR 1.0 by end of the month
Markus: Home page improved and update with performance chart
Mark: To work on clearing the misconceptions regarding CLDR and ICU on gnome list by pointing to some hard data
Tex: Suggests that charts should be targetted towards 2 types of audience.
     i)  Audience familiar with Unicode and ICU
     ii) Audience not familiar with Unicode and ICU.
Mark: A link for neophytes is a good idea
Tex: The homepage should have information from a high level perspective
Doug: The homepage is a place to show neophytes that ICU is what they really need from a high level perspective, 
      just hit the real basic information.
Mark: We should Reorganize the ICU homepage
Tex: The left hand bar should be more concise.
Doug: A developer page and neophyte page should be prepared
Mark: Scenario's of usage for getLocale API
      i)  Valid locale
      ii) Real locale
      iii)Actual locale
Markus: We used to rely on the warning codes for UErrorCode and subsequently we found that relying on warning codes is unrealiable
        The intent for getLocale is that you can answer the questions
Mark: We need to think about a nice static API on a service to get the functionally distinct locales
Markus: Part of the question what getAvailableLocales return
Mark: getAvailable will always return all the valid locales for the service
Mark: We need to revisit getLocale API
Mark: We need to think about how APIs that aid UI display of formats