FW: [chairs] OASIS Symposium | TC Involvement

["Tilton, Cathy" <Cathy.Tilton@daon.com>]

BIAS TC members -

Best to all of you in the new year!

I have a couple of items for you:

1) The annual OASIS Symposium is 15-20 April this year in San Diego.
Last year, we scheduled a face-to-face meeting in conjunction with that
event.  I'd like to see what interest there is in doing that again this
year.  Please let me know as soon as possible your preferences on this.

2) We are invited to submit a presentation (or panel) at the symposium
related to our project.  If you are interested in doing this (alone or
as a tag team), please let me know ASAP, as the deadline is tomorrow!
(See forwarded email below for details.)

3) Reminding you that our next telecon meeting is Wed, 17 January, 12:30
- 2:30 eastern time.

4) If you took a writing assignment for input to the BIAS messaging
protocol document, please get your inputs in to Ash and Murty (copy me)
as soon as possible so that they can incorporate them into the document
prior to our next meeting.

5) The latest version of the INCITS BIAS document has been posted at:
http://www.incits.org/tc_home/m1htm/2006docs/m1061071.pdf.  At the
December M1 meeting, it was approved to ballot this version for
forwarding for public review.  This means it is our last chance to
comment on it prior to public review.  Please send any comments you have
on it to myself and to Matt Swayze (matt.swayze@daon.com).  

Thanks for your support of this project.  My goal is to have a completed
document by mid-year, which means a good bit of elbow grease between now
and then.  Your inputs and reviews are critical to our success.

Regards,
Cathy Tilton
Chair, BIAS TC

-----Original Message-----
From: Jane Harnad [mailto:jane.harnad@oasis-open.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 5:50 PM
To: chairs@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [chairs] OASIS Symposium | TC Involvement

Dear OASIS TC Chairs:

Happy New Year!

We are sending out a final reminder to all our TCs -- to submit at least
one
presentation, tutorial, and/or panel session for our annual spring OASIS
Symposium on "eBusiness and Open Standards: Understanding the Facts,
Fiction, and Future", 15-20 April 2006 in San Diego, California. All TC
Members are welcome to submit a proposal for the program.  The deadline
was
extended until this Friday - 5 January 2007. Guidelines and submission
details may be found at:
http://www.oasis-open.org/events/symposium/2007/call-for-participation.p
hp.

TCs are also encouraged to schedule face-to-face (F2F) meetings in
conjunction with the event.  We have taken the time to evaluate all the
feedback from last year (as well as previous years) and have decided to
waive the meeting fee and adjust our offerings. Details on these
adjustments
may be found on the website at:
http://www.oasis-open.org/events/symposium/2007/committee-meetings.php.

In addition to all the above, we're planning several special
"member-related" events at the Symposium. One such event will be our
annual
"OASIS TC Lightning Rounds". As you know, this is a great opportunity to
educate the members on what your TC is accomplishing, find out the
status of
related work, appeal for input, and identify areas for liaison and
development. Each TC should designate one representative to deliver a
short
presentation on the work of the TC. Presentations will be compiled and
posted on the OASIS website for future reference. Similar to last year,
we
are hoping for approximately 3-4 slides or 2-3 minutes worth of compact
status data and pointers per TC.

Standards work is significantly improved by the kind of broad
cross-fertilization that the Symposium facilitates. We do hope you
consider
these great opportunity for we want to emphasize how important
co-location
and community-building is to our work at OASIS. We had a great turnout
last
year and are very hopeful that our co-location option will be even more
positive this year.

As an OASIS Technical Committee Member, your help is needed to:

1. submit a presentation, panel session, and/or tutorial proposal by the
deadline of 5 January

2. discuss the advantages of holding a F2F at the Symposium during your
next
TC meeting

3. reserve TC meeting space using the online form
(http://www.oasis-open.org/events/symposium/2007/committee-meetings.php)
,
as soon as possible, so space can be allocated

4. and designate a representative to deliver an update on your TC's work
during our annual TC Lightning Round Sessions

Thank you in advance for your support. We look forward to seeing you all
in
San Diego.

Regards,
Jane

Jane Harnad
Manager of Events
OASIS
jane.harnad@oasis-open.org
+1978-667-5115 ext 214
Office Hours:  Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday