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Subject: [xtm-wg] Important information about moving to OASIS
First, congratulations on your decision to advance your working group to the level of an OASIS Member Section! This decision will mean many things for many of you in the future, but the immediate benefits you will see are increased infrastructure (without doing it yourself!), improved public relations and a much higher level of acceptance and credibility for your work. History has shown greater contributions to work under the OASIS umbrella, increased recognition and adoption of the completed work. Topic Maps will undoubtedly receive the same, from our existing members and the XML community at large. We have begun the process of transition, but we need your help. While we work on moving and improving web pages, mail lists, archives etc, we need to align all XTM participants with OASIS. If you and/or your employer are not already members of OASIS, now is the time to start the process. My experience is that many companies require a few weeks of paperwork prior to submitting a member application, so it behooves you to look into it now. A few words about the process of joining OASIS... We are an open consortium, everyone is welcome to join and support our efforts and contribute to the technical work of any or all our Technical Committees. Once you submit an application, it takes a day or two at our end to process it, and then all employees are eligible to participate in Technical Committees, subscribe to any mail list, attend member meetings and networking receptions etc. If your application is not paid by credit card, we still process immediately and allow immediate participation. We allow 30 days for payment by either check or wire transfer, but ask that if that will be a problem for your internal process to alert me to that, so we may accommodate-to the extent possible. Obviously, everyone on this list is considering joining OASIS to continue with Topic Maps, but there is much more to OASIS membership. There is significant marketing value for your company, so please include your marketing staff in your member application or address them to me, so I can help them to better know the values we offer. There are of course, many other OASIS Technical Committees, detailed on our website. Take a moment now to visit www.oasis-open.org learn more about our consortium, the Technical Committees and the different levels of membership available to you. Please feel free to ask me any questions you may have in this process. I am available to you to ensure a smooth transition and to make certain you are aware of and take full benefit from the variety of benefits and services we provide our members. I look forward to hearing from you all soon... Scott McGrath Member Services Manager +1 978 667 5115 (US & Int'l Voice) +1 978 667 5114 (US and Int'l Fax) scott.mcgrath@oasis-open.org http://www.oasis-open.org OASIS PO Box 455 Billerica, MA 01821 To Post a message, send it to: xtm-wg@eGroups.com To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: xtm-wg-unsubscribe@eGroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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