First Meeting of Business Document Exchange TC

[Robin Cover <robin@oasis-open.org>]

This notice is a reminder that January 12, 2011 is the last
day to register as a prospective Member of the Business
Document Exchange TC such that voting rights may be acquired
as of the first meeting.   If anyone joined the (Kavi) group as
an Observer and intended to join as a Member, please let me
know.

Rules for participation/voting the first TC meeting are
referenced below [1].

First Meeting of Business Document Exchange TC
Conference Call
Date/Time: Wednesday, 19 January 2011, 11:00am to 12:00pm ET
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/event.php?event_id=28881

An online meeting facility is expected to be available at:
https://connect.forskningsnettet.dk/bdexchange/

TC Convenor, Mikkel Hippe Brun (mhb@tradeshift.com), will
post phone call-in instructions to this list soon, and
we will provide an initial meeting agenda.  A notice
will be sent to prospective members via this list
inviting indications of candidacy for the rols of TC Chair.

Thanks to all who have contributed to the initial Charter
proposals for this OASIS technical work, and to all
who will participate in the specification development.

  - Robin

Robin Cover
Interim TC Administrator
OASIS, Director of Information Services
Editor, Cover Pages and XML Daily Newslink
Email: robin@oasis-open.org
Staff bio: http://www.oasis-open.org/who/staff.php#cover
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Tel: +1 972-296-1783

[1] Rules for TC First Meeting
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process-2010-07-28.php#firstMeeting

(excerpt)

[...] Eligible Persons intending to participate in the first
meeting must use the OASIS collaborative tools to register as
a TC Member, and to specify whether they intend to gain voting
rights, no later than 7 days prior to a meeting.

[...] "If the Eligible Person is an employee or designee of an
OASIS Organizational Member, the Primary Representative of
that organization must confirm to the Convener and to the TC
Administrator that the person may become a Member of the TC.

Every Eligible Person who has so registered and been confirmed
shall be a Member of the TC beginning with the first meeting.
Every Eligible Person who has so registered, requested voting
rights, been confirmed, and is present at the first meeting of
a TC shall be a Voting Member of the TC beginning with the
first meeting."