FW: [chairs] Presentations and General Information on TC work

["Breininger, Kathryn R" <kathryn.r.breininger@boeing.com>]

The brochure that Carl developed may be a good candidate to contribute
to the OASIS presentations folder described below.  However, it may need
to be updated slighted to reflect version 3.0, and as was suggested at
one time, perhaps a 2 page layout would be easier to read in an online
environment as opposed to the current tri-fold brochure layout.
Thoughts? 


Kathryn Breininger
Boeing Library Services
425-965-0182 phone





-----Original Message-----
From: James Bryce Clark [mailto:jamie.clark@oasis-open.org] 
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 8:26 PM
To: chairs@lists.oasis-open.org
Cc: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org; carol.geyer@oasis-open.org;
andy.moir@oasis-open.org
Subject: [chairs] Presentations and General Information on TC work


     We frequently are asked by outside sources -- analysts, prospective

members, other standards groups -- to provide pointers to useful summary

resources about a TC's work.  Obviously, we would like to direct
inquiries 
to the most useful available material.   These may take various forms --
a
one-page datasheet, a ten-page white paper, a slide deck, a user's guide
or 
a chart.   Frequently these materials exist, but they are not always in
an 
obvious location.

     In order to facilitate inquiries, your staff is creating a distinct

new documents folder in the web-based repository for each TC,
normatively 
called "Presentations and General Information."  This will remain 
accessible to TCs  as usual, but staff also will add materials, as 
described in the further detail appended below.  The usual rules,
including 
the OASIS IPR Policy, apply to material that is uploaded to a TC's 
repository and thereby contributed to the TC.

     A large and diverse group of communities closely watch OASIS and
its 
TC projects.  We should strive to help them find existing entry-level 
resources 
that
explain 
our work.

     Regards  JBC

~   James Bryce Clark
~   Director, Standards Development, OASIS
~   jamie.clark@oasis-open.org

FURTHER DETAIL

     Not every slide deck or document in a TC's repository is broadly 
informative to external readers.  Many TC-related documents focus on a 
particular task, or feature; or the work of a particular viewpoint or 
enterprise; or a proposal not vet formed or resolved.  For this special 
folder, we are seeking to point only to a few documents that:
     (a) originate with the TC or its members;
     (b) are reasonably complete and presentable; and
     (c) fairly describe the TC's progress, recent work or current arc
of 
anticipated work;
     (d) in a manner that would be meaningful to non-TC-members.

Note, these criteria do not rule out slides from a branded source; but
do 
rule out material that is substantively about advertisement, rather than

the OASIS specification.

     OASIS staff reserves the right to move documents in and out of the 
"Presentations and General Info" folder, as seems appropriate to
maintain 
useful and timely pointers..  This will be a (slightly) dynamic list,
and 
therefore not the sole or archival location for any resource.  If we 
include existing TC repository documents we will *copy* them and upload
the 
copy, leaving the original in its present location, so as not to break
any 
links.   If we move items out of that folder, we will make sure they 
persist in at least one other TC repository location.  We will send a 
manual or auto-generated note to the TC general e-mail list for each 
change.

     Please feel free to let us know about, and to upload, suitable 
material that  may be suitable as external-facing general descriptions
of 
the TC's work.