FW: [legalxml-courtfiling] 2010 Budget Process

["Carol Geyer" <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org>]

Food for thought: Several groups at OASIS host XML.org Focus Areas that
function as George describes below. See http://dita.xml.org,
http://saml.xml.org, http://ubl.xml.org.

Each site features its own section for news, forums, blogs, product and
services directories, etc. Anyone can register on the site and post info.

The OASIS costs for hosting an XML.org site are around $12K. We usually get
that by having at least two companies agree to sponsor the site for $6K per
year. Sponsors get their logos and links on all pages in the site, so the
visibility is great. Alternatively, the Member Section can fund the XML.org
site out of its budget--or we could do a combination.

I'd be happy to provide more details if you're interested.

Carol

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	From: "George W. Knecht" <george@pcintellect.com>
	
	Date: December 4, 2009 11:12:53 AM EST
	
	To: "'Eric Dimick Eastman'" <erice@doxpop.com>, "'ECF TC'"
<legalxml-courtfiling@lists.oasis-open.org>
	
	Subject: RE: [legalxml-courtfiling] 2010 Budget Process
	

	
	Not sure if anyone has responded to this or not, but thought I’d
chime in.
	 
	I’m 100% on board with all the ideas Eric listed below, and have
been mulling this over this morning trying to think of other ideas to help
promote ECF, and am drawing a blank. The one thing I keep coming back to is
having a more interactive web site where potential implementers could go to
not only view and download materials, but participate in discussion forums,
or read blog posts submitted by implementers or TC members.
	 
	That said, I don’t think something like this necessarily requires a
budget request if a TC member took on the task of setting this up. I’d love
to do it myself, but a task such as this inevitably falls to the bottom of
the priority list as I try to keep up with current business.
	 
	On the other hand, if we REALLY want to make it happen, we could
submit a budget request to hire a web developer design something and get a
site set up. This of course still requires a TC member work with that person
to create the site and seed it with content.
	 
	The ECFForum.net site I set up some time ago is just a basic forums
application, and doesn’t really present the idea like I’ve suggested above.
I’m thinking something more similar to the kind of sites created when groups
are promoting OpenSource products like DotNetNuke, or WordPress.
	 
	My suspicion is that while I think having this kind of site would be
ideal, probably too late to hash out a discussion on whether or not to make
any kind of budget request for it. Nonetheless, I just thought I’d throw it
out there.
	 
	George W. Knecht
	PC Intellect LLC
	602.380.8049
	 
	From: Eric Dimick Eastman [mailto:erice@doxpop.com] 
	Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 6:02 AM
	To: ECF TC
	Subject: [legalxml-courtfiling] 2010 Budget Process
	 
	Hello all,
	 
	At the last steering committee conference call, just before the
Thanksgiving week, we basically got the "use it or lose it" talk from the
OASIS folks.  They were, of course, nicer and more precise than that, but
that was the basic message.  The money that is already in the LegalXML MS
account is not in jeopardy, but if we don't have a solid, demonstrated need
for it, we stand to have much less than the typical 35% of dues credited to
our account in 2010.  We have some fairly tight deadlines coming up and will
need to make some decisions before our next regularly scheduled call.
	 
	Dec 7th the LegalXML MS SC will have another conference call to
approve a budget request
	Dec 10th deadline to get budget to OASIS
	 
	If you have any ideas about what our TC should be doing in the next
year (that cost money) please get them to me ASAP, Wednesday at the latest.
	 
	I will facilitate this process as best I can, but I don't have the
time or background to do much more than that.
	 
	Here are the ideas that I'm aware of so far:

	*	Funding travel for presenters to:

		*	NACM
		*	E-Courts
		*	the National Conference of Appellate Court Clerks
		*	National Conference of Metropolitan Courts
		*	the National District Attorneys Association
		*	ABA CourtTech

	*	Webinar for prospective implementors
	*	Technical Assistance

	The presentations and webinar would take significant TC member time
to make happen.  Is anyone willing to step forward to produce the content?
	 
	Thanks,
	Eric
	
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