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Subject: Re: [chairs] What can Standards Development / TC Administration do to help?


Thanks Al,

  But neither of us are developers/programmers.

Mary 



On Apr 22, 2010, at 12:05 PM, Al Brown wrote:

> Having a program that updates or generates the rddl for the set of namespaces used would definitely be helpful.
> 
> Also any automated tooling to check the draft conforms to tc guidelines would be beneficial.
> 
> Al
> Sent from BlackBerry.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: ashok malhotra [ashok.malhotra@oracle.com]
> Sent: 04/22/2010 08:16 AM MST
> To: Martin Chapman <MARTIN.CHAPMAN@oracle.com>
> Cc: Mary McRae <mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org>; chairs@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [chairs] What can Standards Development / TC Administration do to help?
> 
> 
> 
> Martin ... that's a great idea!
> All the best, Ashok
> 
> 
> Martin Chapman wrote:
>> How about having a service whereby TCs can request the allocation of a namespace, rather than making one up and falling foul of the hard to interpret guidelines. This could also be accompanied with a partially filled out rddl document that points to the right places.
>> 
>> Martin.
>> 
>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Mary McRae [mailto:mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org]
>>> Sent: 21 April 2010 20:27
>>> To: chairs@lists.oasis-open.org
>>> Subject: [chairs] What can Standards Development / TC Administration do to help?
>>> 
>>> Hi everyone,
>>> 
>>>  If you've submitted a specification for public review or CS ballot recently, you've probably met
>>> Kim. I'm thrilled to have her on board and hopefully we're now in good shape to get your documents
>>> turned around quickly once again.
>>> 
>>>  That said, I have at least a dozen ideas of services we can once again offer, or new services, to
>>> make your lives a bit easier, but I thought I would ask you for your ideas rather than deciding for
>>> you. There are some caveats of course:
>>> 
>>> a. Neither Kim nor I have the power or the skillset to change anything about the way Kavi works.
>>> b. We're not talking about changes to the TC Process.
>>> 
>>> So, for instance:
>>> 
>>> - Would you find a template for recording meeting minutes helpful? If yes, in what flavors?
>>> 
>>> - Would you like us to take over creation of spec covers? (as in you'll use a temporary cover which
>>> would become part of the template, you would provide us with whatever information necessary, and we
>>> would create the cover pages with all the appropriate links and make sure they work before uploading
>>> to docs.oasis-open.org?)
>>> 
>>> - Would you like us to review your specifications prior to TC ballots so you don't need to go back and
>>> fix stuff afterwards?
>>> 
>>> - Would you like us to call in to TC meetings periodically just to hear our voices and answer any
>>> questions you might have?
>>> 
>>> - Would you like more training materials? If yes, is there a particular topic you'd like to see
>>> covered?
>>> 
>>> Remember these are just some of *my* ideas; I want to hear *your* ideas. I need to know what your TOP
>>> request is; you can have more than one, but please list in order of priority. While you're free to
>>> discuss on this list, please send your actual list to me so I can track them.
>>> 
>>> Thanks!
>>> 
>>> Mary
>>> 
>>> Mary P McRae
>>> Director, Standards Development
>>> Technical Committee Administrator
>>> OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society
>>> email: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org
>>> web: www.oasis-open.org
>>> twitter: @fiberartisan  #oasisopen
>>> phone: 1.603.232.9090
>>> 
>>> Standards are like parachutes: they work best when they're open.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 



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