Re: [chairs] your input on OASIS functionality enhancements

[Rich Thompson <richt2@us.ibm.com>]

I agree that the attendance functionality
is of minimal use without such sorting capabilities.

Rich Thompson
OASIS WSRP TC Chair
Interaction Middleware and Standards for Portal Server
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center / Yorktown Heights, NY

"Karl F. Best" <karl.best@oasis-open.org>

01/06/2004 02:38 PM

Please respond to
karl.best

To	Steve Anderson <sanderson@opennetwork.com>
cc	Chairs OASIS <chairs@lists.oasis-open.org>, jamie.clark@oasis-open.org, jeff.lomas@oasis-open.org
Subject	Re: [chairs] your input on OASIS functionality enhancements

Thanks, Steve. You've suggested this before, and it's
on the list of 
requests that I've made to Kavi. I hope that they'll include this in 
their next functionality release.

-Karl


Steve Anderson wrote:
> As the secretary for two of the larger TCs in OASIS, I need sorting
capabilities on the attendance tracking page in order for it to be usable
directly during meetings.  The end goal is to be able to do a roll
call of members (sorted by company, then by name), then of prospective
members, and then mark the attendance of any observers that identify themselves.
 There are too many observers to do a roll call of the entire membership,
and the current attendance tracking page doesn't list the role values or
offer sorting.
> 
> The ability to choose primary, secondary and tertiary sorts from Role,
Company and Name would address this directly.
> 
> Without this, I must continue to use a spreadsheet as my primary tool,
and then duplicate that data into the Kavi system after each meeting, which
leads to inconsistencies.
> 
> Thanks.
> --
> Steve Anderson
> OpenNetwork
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karl F. Best [mailto:karl.best@oasis-open.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 11:32 AM
> To: Chairs OASIS
> Cc: jamie.clark@oasis-open.org; jeff.lomas@oasis-open.org
> Subject: [chairs] your input on OASIS functionality enhancements
> 
> 
> TC chairs and secretaries:
> 
> As I've done in the past, I would like to ask for your input on the
> infrastructure and functionality provided by OASIS to the TCs.
> 
> Last spring we rolled out the new collaborative tools from Kavi, 
> including membership roster management, balloting, email lists, document
> repository, action items, etc. While the rollout didn't go as smoothly
> as we had hoped I think that we've got most of the bugs worked out.
> We've recently updated the attendance notification scripts (and as
a 
> reminder, these rely on your keeping your rosters and meeting attendance
> current), and our IT staff has over the holidays upgraded the Kavi
> software so you should see some significant performance improvements.
> 
> We have also recently launched the OASIS Standards Registry for the
> purpose of sharing information about the status of our technical work.
> We're asking our member organizations to submit information about
their 
> implementations of OASIS TC specifications. We'll also be working
on 
> synchronizing some aspects of the registry data with the information
> stored in the Kavi database so that we don't have to enter identical
> information in two places.
> 
> I've had on my list for some time now the development of a document
> management system, including functionality for persistent URLs, version
> control, checkin/out, etc. I gathered some input from you last spring
> and summer, and we're going to resume putting together the design
for 
> this system so that we can then start development. It's evident that
> this functionality is needed by our TCs, and we want to be able to
> deliver this soon.
> 
> I would like to hear from you what other functionality is crucially
> needed by the TCs for their operation. While our development resources
> are limited and so we must concentrate on those things most important
to 
> the largest number of our members, we want to hear from you what sorts
> of things we ought to be working on. (We would also be interested
in 
> hearing about any development resources that any of our member companies
> could contribute to our infrastructure efforts.)
> 
> Please reply to this list or to me directly over the next couple of
> weeks so that we on the OASIS staff can make our development plans
for 
> the rest of the year.
> 
> -Karl
> 
> 
> =================================================================
> Karl F. Best
> Vice President, OASIS
> office  +1 978.667.5115 x206     mobile +1 978.761.1648
> karl.best@oasis-open.org      http://www.oasis-open.org
> 
> 
> 


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