Thanks Peter
I’ve dropped off the OASIS staffers for a moment, for this response.
It is interesting isn’t it, that everywhere we look there is ‘Business Transformation’ (add your adjective.. Digital, Government, whatever.. but so few of these initiatives feel the need to follow any specification.
I know in my own Government agency I circulate the links to the TGF every 6 months or so in response to some question/query/conundrum.. and I get back the same ‘oh yes, very good’.. but no motivation to change
what they are doing to fit with the TGF approach. Not that I can determine, at any rate..
This follows on from an earlier regime’s ‘TGF-Lite’ approach, where in 2012-13 they at least looked at it in depth. With those folks moved on and another crop of well meaning folks re-learning the whole thing
again.
Is it that public sector institutions are so bound up in being their own special snowflakes? Is it that the TGF is not compelling in some way? I don’t know for sure but I would like to hear views from others.
Cheers
Colin
From: tgf@lists.oasis-open.org [mailto:tgf@lists.oasis-open.org]
On Behalf Of Peter F Brown
Sent: Saturday, 17 October 2015 7:01 a.m.
To: TGF TC List
Cc: Chet Ensign; Scott McGrath (scott.mcgrath@oasis-open.org); Barbara Erbes
Subject: [tgf] Request for new items
Hi all,
It has been a very busy few months for all of us, in our different areas of work and interest. In that time, the future of the TGF TC has probably not been in the forefront of our thoughts, workplans or considerations
– but it has always been there, somewhere, in the background!
I have received a couple of emails over the last period asking about when a next meeting of the TC would take place – but I can’t really answer that without any specific items to discuss – hence my reluctance to set a
date and an agenda.
As you are all aware, the only open item regards the possible progression of the current TGF v2 committee specification to the status of OASIS Standard – but that has still not received the minimum number of statements
of use, required to take the next step. And even then, we should not under-estimate the work involved in getting a candidate standard through the member ballot, handling any comments or negative votes received and getting us over the finishing line.
As such, unless I receive, before the end of the month, a specific, tractable, proposal for further work AND a volunteer to step up as Chair of the TC, I would like to suggest that we “declare victory” with the
great number of deliverables that we have achieved to date, celebrate this fact and ask the OASIS TC Administration to do the necessary to close our TC.
With best regards to one and all,
Peter
Interim Chair, TGF TC
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