OASIS News-30 July 2001

[dee schur <dee.schur@oasis-open.org>]

OASIS News
30 July 2001

Welcome to OASIS News, a publication for the OASIS
membership community providing updates on Consortium announcements,
accomplishments and activities. OASIS News is published twice a month.

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OASIS TC ANNOUNCEMENTS
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OASIS Conformance TC-The next meeting of the Conformance TC will be 16
August, 2001 at 2:00PM (EDT). Contact the TC chair, Lynne Rosenthal
(lynne.rosenthal@nist.gov) for details,
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ioc/.

Election and Voter Services Technical Committee-The next meeting of the
Committee will be on 21 August, 2001 at 11:00 AM (EDT).  Contact TC chair,
Gregg McGilvray (gregg@election.com) for details,
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/election/,


An organizing meeting for a new OASIS Member Section, TopicMaps.org,
http://www.topicmaps.org/index.html, will be held in Montreal on Saturday
and Sunday, 18-19 August, 2001. For more information contact the chair, Eric
Freese (eric@isogen.com).

The newly formed OASIS ebXML Implementation, Interoperability, and
Conformance Technical Committee will be having its first meeting on 6
August. For more information contact the TC chair, Philippe De Smedt
(PDeSmedt@viquity.com). The original TC Call For Participation may be found
at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200106/msg00000.html.


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CONSORTIUM HEADLINES
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"Results of Board of Directors Election"

On July 24, 2001, OASIS released the results of the recent Board of
Directors election. Jim Hughes of Hewlett-Packard, Christopher Kurt of
Microsoft, Simon Nicholson of Sun Microsystems and Michael Weiner of IBM
received the most votes and will become the newest members of the OASIS
Board, each serving two-year terms that begin in August.

In addition, the existing OASIS Board appointed Colin Evans of Intel to
serve out the term of Amy Krane of Enigma, who vacated her seat on the
Board earlier this year. As Colin placed fifth in the general
election--receiving just one vote less than the fourth candidate--the
Board is confident his appointment reflects well the intent of the
membership.

The new members of the Board join current OASIS directors, Patrick J.
Gannon, Una Kearns of Documentum and Norbert H. Mikula of DataChannel,
whose terms expire in 2002.



"OASIS to Sponsor XML Pavilion at COMDEX"

OASIS is excited to announce that COMDEX Fall 2001 will feature the XML
OASIS Pavilion, 1500 square feet of exhibit space reserved for OASIS member
companies. The XML OASIS Pavilion is a great opportunity for OASIS Sponsors
and Contributors to showcase their XML-based solutions to a large, targeted
audience at a fraction of the cost of a traditional COMDEX booth. (Please
see http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200107/msg00005.html for
the
complete announcement and information about how to participate.)


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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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This is a call for participation for the 2nd International "Workshop on
Conceptual Modeling Approaches" for e-Business to be held in conjunction
with the 20th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling.  The location
is Yokohama, Japan on November 27-30, 2001. See:
http://www.ifi.uni-klu.ac.at/Conferences/eCOMO2001.  The scope of the
workshop is very much in synch with what OASIS is doing with the United
Nations CEFACT in ebXML. Please submit all topics and/or questions to
Professor Heinrich (mayr@ifit.uni-klu.ac.at)


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NEW OASIS MEMBERS
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OASIS is proud to announce that Tradegate ECA has recently joined the
Consortium as a Sponsor member. Tradegate ECA, www.tradegate.org.au/, is a
provider of
electronic commerce services for Australian Communities.

FUJITSU Limited, has also become a new OASIS Sponsor. Fujitsu,
www.fujitsu.com/, is a leading provider of Internet-focused information
technology solutions for the global
marketplace.

Other new OASIS Contributors include The Society of Biblical Literature.

We welcome all these new member companies to OASIS and look forward to
their contributions.


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OASIS MEMBER DISCOUNTS
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OASIS members are eligible for discounts off registration and/or
exhibiting fees at many industry events including:

Extreme Markup Languages 2001, Aug 12-17, Montreal, Canada
http://www.oasis-open.org/members/meetings/eml_montreal.shtml

For a complete list of member discounts:
http://www.oasis-open.org/members/


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OASIS ON THE AGENDA
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Update: CSW's XML Summer School at Oxford

Robin Cover, Managing Editor of the XML Cover Pages, was a course instructor
and Laura Walker, Executive Director of OASIS, gave a dinner "keynote"
speech.  They also attended a panel session along with industry luminaries
Lauren Wood, Bob DuCharme, Steve DeRose,
John Chelsom, Peter Flynn, Mavis Cournane, Brad Chang and Kal Ahmed.

For a complete listing of events see: http://www.oasis-open.org/events/


The Interoperability Summit

OASIS, along with several other standards groups and consortia from
around the world will gather in Orlando, Florida, 6-8 December 2001 for
the Interoperability Summit, the first in a series of inter-consortia
meetings aimed at identifying common ground and coordinating development
of electronic business specifications. The goal of the series is to identify
intersections between major horizontal and vertical groups
in order to promote acceptance of common models and approaches.  The
benefit, through minimizing duplication and overlap, is a higher level of
interoperability.  The first topic will be human resources, likely followed
by an event focused on procurement and/or financial services a few months
later.


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MEMBER BENEFITS
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SPONSOR LOGOS

The OASIS homepage features a rotating display of Sponsor member logos.
This is a very visible way to get the recognition you deserve as a
Sponsor of the Consortium. If your company is an OASIS Sponsor and your
logo does not appear on the homepage, please email a gif or jpeg version
of your logo to dee.schur@oasis-open.org. If you are a Contributor and
would like to upgrade your membership to take advantage of this
promotional benefit, please contact scott.mcgrath@oasis-open.org.
Also, OASIS will be exhibiting at the "SD Web Services World" on August
27-31 in Boston. The OASIS booth displays the logos of our Sponsor members.
If your company is an OASIS Sponsor and your logo does not appear on the
OASIS homepage rotating display banner, then it will not appear in the booth
either.  Please email your logo to be included in the sponsor banner and the
OASIS booth by August 8, 2001.


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