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Subject: Happy New Year
Dear members, You've made it possible for us to have another great year, even
as uncertainty rises in the economy and our industry. Thank you
for remaining loyal to OASIS, more loyal on average than members
of most other standards organizations. We've happily and
diligently rewarded your loyalty with better collaboration tools
like Github, JIRA, and open repositories for artifacts other than
standards; and increased our support for the latest and greatest
groupware, from Google Docs to Slack - and more to come. Thank
you as well for remaining patient as we transition towards an even
more agile model, and changes in our team. We said farewell to
Robin Cover, our in-house XML expert, and welcomed Jory Burson,
who is helping develop our Open Projects initiative (OPs). Â OPs are the answer to a global trend we've been tracking for
years: the convergence of open standards and open source. After a
flurry of Web-based activity up until 2015, the lion's share of
open technologies has shifted to open source. My prediction, for
what it's worth, is that cybersecurity, blockchain and AI will
stoke the need for standards again after 2020. In the meantime
standards will remain a preferred tool and _expression_ of
government procurement, and we remain as strong as ever in that
area. But the open standards to come will not be like those of
old. They will reflect the universal need for rapid development
and prompt solutions to pressing problems. OASIS Open Projects
already allow open source efforts to move at whatever speed they
wish, and create a path towards standardization for specific
portions of code, under one intellectual property roof. Prospects
have told us that this is an amazing sweet spot for open
technologies. Expect to see Open Projects blossoming soon at
OASIS. But that's not all we're doing. We have the honor and privilege
of being, along with ANSI, project administrators for the US
Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to PC 317. Oh no, another obscure
acronym. This one stands for: "ISO/PC 317, Consumer Protection:
privacy by design for consumer goods and services." PC 317
will develop global guidelines to facilitate compliance with
regulations and foster greater consumer trust. If you don't think
privacy matters as an ethical and economic issue, you haven't been
reading the news for a good long while. Our job is to grow the US TAG and help it articulate its goals,
for inclusion in the standard. This complements the fantastic
privacy work we have in OASIS. It also brings companies like
Amazon, Tesla, Starbucks, Uber and Apple to the table; companies
that until now had shown very little interest in OASIS
activities. And while they are not technically members of OASIS,
like you; they are definitely our customers. Think of them as your
OASIS cousins - and consider joining them as they craft global
privacy policy. OASIS is about to become a major player in open source and open
standards, under a unified open technologies roof. Your support
and encouragement, via the Board of Directors you elect, is what
makes this important innovation possible. We are grateful to you
for helping us implement the evolutionary answer to the drastic
changes that have been brewing in our marketplace. Onto great
things - together. Happy New Year, Laurent Â
-- Laurent Liscia, CEO OASIS: Open source. Open standards. https://oasis-open-projects.org/ |
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