Fw: TC meetings at New Orleans

[Rich Thompson <richt2@us.ibm.com>]

As you can see, OASIS is encouraging
TCs (via the chairs mailing list) to co-locate F2F meetings. I think the
key question is whether we would want to delay the March F2F by yet another
8 weeks. My first inclination is to not do such a delay, but I do also
want to encourage the efforts by OASIS staff to do such co-locations. This
combination for me suggests encouraging them to plan such a co-location
for later in the year (e.g. the XML 2004 conference) such that there is
enough lead time for TCs to do appropriate planning. 

I am copying here the original suggestion
for our reference:
Hi all!

The OASIS TAB is busy making preparations for the OASIS TAB Symposium 2004
to be held in New Orleans, LA on 26 - 27 April. They will be releasing
the
CfP shortly. We will be holding the OASIS AGM and a reception as well.
We
are making some TC meeting space available for 28 - 29 April at the same
location. As usual, OASIS will cover the cost of the meeting rooms and
the
TC will be responsible for the phone and AV. I need to know ASAP if your
TC
is interested.

We are in final negotiations with a four star hotel and we are very excited
about this location and the obvious amenities of such a popular destination,
not to mention that the New Orleans Jazz Festival runs during this time,
see
<http://www.nojazzfest.com/>.

Thank you for your time and consideration.
Regards,
Dee

Any thoughts or comments?

Rich
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"Karl F. Best" <karl.best@oasis-open.org>

01/15/2004 02:55 PM

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karl.best

To	Diane Jordan/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS, jevdemon@microsoft.com, martin.chapman@oracle.com, Eric.Newcomer@iona.com, Heather Kreger/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS, winston_bumpus@dell.com, tom@coastin.com, Rich Thompson/Watson/IBM@IBMUS, Kelvin Lawrence/Austin/IBM@IBMUS, ckaler@microsoft.com
cc	"Jamie.clark" <Jamie.clark@oasis-open.org>, dee.schur@oasis-open.org
Subject	TC meetings at New Orleans

Web Services TC chairs:

I'm sure that you've seen the announcement about the OASIS Symposium and
co-lo'ed TC meetings in New Orleans in April.

I would like to suggest that it would be a *very* good thing to have all
of the web services TCs meeting there. We (staff) have arranged for TC
meetings facilities at the Symposium event as a way to encourage the 
various OASIS TCs to work together. We've received some positive 
response from a good number of TCs, but we'd especially like to see the
TCs from JCs, member sections, and other logical groups meeting together
because there is so much to be gained from collaborative work between 
TCs working on common topics.

I hope that your TCs will give some serious thought to this offer. 
Please contact Jamie, Dee, or myself if you have any questions about 
this event or the logistics, etc.

-Karl

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Karl F. Best
Vice President, OASIS
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