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Subject: Impressive Lineup for OASIS Adoption Forum
OASIS members, As the OASIS Adoption Forum nears, I wanted to take a moment to encourage you all to attend this annual European meeting of Consortium members and their guests. The event will be held in London, 17 October, with a special, half-day OpenDocument and DITA Focus on Tuesday, 18 October. The OASIS Adoption Forum provides an opportunity for users, government agencies, researchers, and developers to explore what open standards mean for today's e-government, e-health, and e-commerce communities. The event offers an ideal opportunity for active OASIS participants--as well as those who may not be involved in the day-to-day development of standards--to understand the trends, the status, and the actual business cases that drive our work. The intimate scale and one-track program of the Forum will deliver ample opportunities for sharing ideas, promoting your work, learning about related efforts, and educating others. We'll examine the benefits offered by specifications such as the Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WSBPEL) and the Election Markup Language (EML). Presentations from HM Revenue & Customs on standards and taxation, from the Netherlands Ministry of Finance on best practices for e-government, and from the Norwegian Insurance Administration on its ebXML-based national e-health infrastructure will also be featured. Ovum analyst, David Mitchell, will provide the keynote address on Open Standards and Open Source. He'll discuss why users need to look beyond 'open' and play an active role in ensuring that the standards being developed today meet their needs for interoperability. If your organisation is affected by the open source movement, the OASIS Adoption Forum presents an ideal opportunity to further this important dialogue and gain greater understanding of the divergence and commonalities at play. A panel addressing how standards organisations can coordinate efforts to promote real interoperability will also be featured. Leaders from Europe's most influential standards bodies including CEN/ISSS, GS1, ICTSB, and ITU will join OASIS to discuss how their groups are responding to user outcry for more cooperation in the standards development arena. As I mentioned, we've added an extra half-day of content focused on two newly approved OASIS Standards, OpenDocument and the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA). DITA builds content reuse into the authoring process for document creation and management. OpenDocument provides a royalty-free, XML-based file format that covers features required by text, spreadsheets, charts, and graphical documents. You may be aware that the U.S. Commonwealth of Massachusetts recently proposed a requirement for all state office documents and presentations to be output in a format that is compliant with the OpenDocument OASIS Standard, and many European governments are considering similar policies. In London, we'll examine how companies and organisations can migrate to the OpenDocument format. We'll also discuss the ways industry sectors, such as pharmaceutical, semiconductor, and telecommunications, can standardise on DITA subject-matter vocabularies within their communities. Attendance at the Adoption Forum is open to all, and OASIS members are eligible for a substantial discount. Forum attendees may participate in the OpenDocument and DITA Focus at no additional cost. Registration for the Focus alone, which will be held from 9:00 am until noon on Tuesday, 18 October, is also available. OASIS Adoption Forum meeting costs are partially offset by the generous support of OASIS Foundational Sponsors, BEA Systems, Innodata Isogen, SAP, and Sun Microsystems, and by event sponsors, HP, IBM, and Xenos. The OpenDocument and DITA Focus is sponsored by IBM and Sun Microsystems. Eduardo Gutentag, Chairman of the Board, and I will be attending this event and look forward to greeting you personally. This is also a great opportunity for you to share your views on the future of OASIS directly with the organization's leaders. I urge you all to consider attending this meeting, and invite your colleagues and customers to join us. Details and online registration are at http://www.oasis-open.org/events/adoption_forum_2005/. Regards, Patrick Gannon President and CEO OASIS
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