Re: [legalxml-courtfiling] Updates from LegalXML Steering Committee / Budget

["George W. Knecht" <george@pcintellect.com>]

Jim,

Thanks for your comments. I will relay to Monica that you may be able to attend the Stanford presentation, and will work on getting further details on that for you. We have a LegalXML SC meeting next week where we should learn more.

I'd like to present a budget request to the LegalXML SC next week, are there any further comments from the TC on the budget items I described below.

Thanks so much,

George

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Cabral, James E. <JCabral@mtgmc.com> wrote:

George.

 

Thanks for the excellent summary.  Regarding MTG’s contributions, I can offer the following:

 

1.       I was planning to attend eCourts West but can attend eCourts East and the Stanford presentation as well If necessary.

2.       I think Robin was preparing the scope of work for the online training and MTG is interested in helping develop the training.  Are we still talking about roughly 3 hours of training?

3.       I am preparing a scope of work for the development of the compliance environment which should be useful regardless of the “for profit” vs. “non-profit”  decision.

 

  Thanks,

 

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From: George W. Knecht [mailto:george@pcintellect.com]
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 6:46 PM

To: legalxml-courtfiling@lists.oasis-open.org

Subject: [legalxml-courtfiling] Updates from LegalXML Steering Committee / Budget

 

Good Day All:

 

Finally getting caught up and wanted to send out a few notes / updates as they relate to the LegalXML Steering Committee, the ECF TC, and the budget.

 

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1. The SC is definitely on board with our outreach efforts at various conference (i.e. NACM, eCourt East and West). We need to come up with a worst case budget and ask for the approval on that, and also identify those who will attend.

 

For NACM, I did speak to Eric Eastman and he seemed willing, but didn't know if it would work on with his schedule. Is anyone in this group willing to attend? Will anyone already be there that could represent the TC and ECF well?

 

I'll propose the following as a possible budgets:

 

eCourt East

$2250 to cover $499 registration fee (if by Aug 6th) , airfare, hotel, and incidentals

 

eCourt West

$2250 to cover $499 registration fee (if by Oct 29th), airfare, hotel, and incidentals

 

NACM

$3000 to cover $625 registration fee (if by June 6th), airfare, hotel, and incidentals

 

I would be willing to go to the eCourt West conference if the TC approves, and would probably actually drive there from Phoenix so that would significantly decrease the cost.

 

Finally ... there is an outreach opportunity available to us at Stanford University at a 2 hour symposium to discuss LegalXML with professionals from Silicon Valley companies (anywhere from 80 to 200 people). Monica (SC member) is trying to organize this symposium for sometime in Mid-December and has asked if we could identify someone who can speak to LegalXML and ECF to attend as a panel member. Thoughts from the group on this.

 

 

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2. Both OASIS and the SC are totally on board with the idea of developing an online training video for ECF. Dee Schur, from OASIS also suggested that we utilize some OASIS resources for the actual production of the video as well, as they have done this kind of thing in the past. Perhaps doing so will end up cheaper than leaning on the National Center. I think in order to generate a full budget for this, however, we may need to do the following.

 

- Come up with a budget to allow someone to generate the content and script for the video.

- Get the SC to approve that budget, and move forward with it.

- Then, based on the content come up with a budget for the actual production of the video.

- Finally, get the SC to approve that, and move forward with it.

 

I don't see how we could ballpark a budget for the production of the video without know what the content will be, so taking it in this order seems to make sense to me. I'm open to others thoughts though.

 

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3. Both OASIS and the SC seemed to be agreeable to the development of a compliance environment, however, cautioned on how we went about developing such an environment. OASIS expressed concern over any for profit "vendor" taking on any such work, and suggested that we seek a non-profit like NCSC to possibly do this kind of development for us. Thoughts from the group?

 

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Robert ... can you think of anything I might be missing here.

 

Thanks so much,

 

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George W. Knecht
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George W. Knecht
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