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Subject: RE: [chairs] Presentations and General Information on TC work
Jamie, Great idea - this should make it much easier for outside parties to go beyond the surface info on a TC home page to quickly gain a deeper understanding of the work being done there. One question: will this related to the current FAQ link? Should a TC's FAQ also reference these presentations/general info docs? =Drummond Co-Chair, XRI and XDI TCs -----Original Message----- From: James Bryce Clark [mailto:jamie.clark@oasis-open.org] Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 8:26 PM To: chairs@lists.oasis-open.org Cc: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org; carol.geyer@oasis-open.org; andy.moir@oasis-open.org Subject: [chairs] Presentations and General Information on TC work We frequently are asked by outside sources -- analysts, prospective members, other standards groups -- to provide pointers to useful summary resources about a TC's work. Obviously, we would like to direct inquiries to the most useful available material. These may take various forms -- a one-page datasheet, a ten-page white paper, a slide deck, a user's guide or a chart. Frequently these materials exist, but they are not always in an obvious location. In order to facilitate inquiries, your staff is creating a distinct new documents folder in the web-based repository for each TC, normatively called "Presentations and General Information." This will remain accessible to TCs as usual, but staff also will add materials, as described in the further detail appended below. The usual rules, including the OASIS IPR Policy, apply to material that is uploaded to a TC's repository and thereby contributed to the TC. A large and diverse group of communities closely watch OASIS and its TC projects. We should strive to help them find existing entry-level resources that explain our work. Regards JBC ~ James Bryce Clark ~ Director, Standards Development, OASIS ~ jamie.clark@oasis-open.org FURTHER DETAIL Not every slide deck or document in a TC's repository is broadly informative to external readers. Many TC-related documents focus on a particular task, or feature; or the work of a particular viewpoint or enterprise; or a proposal not vet formed or resolved. For this special folder, we are seeking to point only to a few documents that: (a) originate with the TC or its members; (b) are reasonably complete and presentable; and (c) fairly describe the TC's progress, recent work or current arc of anticipated work; (d) in a manner that would be meaningful to non-TC-members. Note, these criteria do not rule out slides from a branded source; but do rule out material that is substantively about advertisement, rather than the OASIS specification. OASIS staff reserves the right to move documents in and out of the "Presentations and General Info" folder, as seems appropriate to maintain useful and timely pointers.. This will be a (slightly) dynamic list, and therefore not the sole or archival location for any resource. If we include existing TC repository documents we will *copy* them and upload the copy, leaving the original in its present location, so as not to break any links. If we move items out of that folder, we will make sure they persist in at least one other TC repository location. We will send a manual or auto-generated note to the TC general e-mail list for each change. Please feel free to let us know about, and to upload, suitable material that may be suitable as external-facing general descriptions of the TC's work.
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