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Subject: Fwd: Re: [dita] Fwd: Please Vote for XMILE System Dynamics




Best,
Kris

Kristen James Eberlein
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting
www.eberleinconsulting.com
+1 919 682-2290; kriseberlein (skype)



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Subject: Re: [dita] Fwd: Please Vote for XMILE System Dynamics
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2015 09:45:09 -0800
From: Tom Magliery <tom.magliery@justsystems.com>
To: Kristen James Eberlein <kris@eberleinconsulting.com>, DITA TC <dita@lists.oasis-open.org>


That would be a very nice-to-have for a big last push for votes.

Whenever I wax grandiose about DITA, one of the points I make 
(clumsily, usually) is that it makes good on the big promises of XML 
reuse, single-sourcing, interoperability that were possible but still 
expensive and a lot more work to achieve.

mag


On Mon, 7 Dec 2015 11:11:29 -0600
 Kristen James Eberlein <kris@eberleinconsulting.com> wrote:
>                    Anybody want to write a similarly compelling 
>e-mail for DITA?
>     
> 
>       
> Best,
>         Kris
>         
>         Kristen James Eberlein
>         Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
>         Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting
>         www.eberleinconsulting.com
>         +1 919 682-2290; kriseberlein (skype)
>         
>              
>       
>       -------- Forwarded Message -------- 
>                                       Subject: 
>                         Please Vote for XMILE System Dynamics 
>                                  Date:              Mon, 7 Dec 2015 
>11:16:30 -0500                                   From: 
>             Steven Adler <adler1@us.ibm.com> 
>                                  To:              OASIS <> 
>                                 
>       
>       
> Dear OASIS,
>         
>         In the 1950's, an MIT Professor named Jay Forrester, created 
>a         simple icon-based vocabulary for describing how policy 
>effects         complex ecosystems. He called it System Dynamics, and 
>in the         decades since System Dynamics has helped launch the 
>        environmental movement and urban planning in the late 1960's, 
>        business strategy, resource planning, and so much more. 
>Systems         Thinking inspired Donna Meadows to write the landmark 
>book, Limits           to Growth, in 1972, which was the first to 
>predict that         unrestrained industrial production and 
>population growth would         deplete natural resources, destroy 
>the environment, and limit         human potential.
>         
>         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth
>         
>         Some of you may have studied System Dynamics in business 
>school.         Many of you may use Systems Thinking without ever 
>realizing         where the ideas came from. That was true for me 
>until 2011, when         an IBM colleague introduced me to a Smarter 
>Cities Simulation we         built for the City of Portland. What I 
>saw there was an         incredibly complex network of formulas, 
>interactions, and         feedback loops that mapped the impact of 
>policies in one area of         city administration to 12 others. It 
>was so fascinating and yet         so incredibly remote for the 
>average person to understand. When         I dived down deep and 
>interviewed the model designers, I         discovered a nuanced world 
>of System Dynamics model development         that was far more Art 
>than Science.
>         
>         That's why I sponsored the XMILE System Dynamics Technical 
>        Committee at OASIS; to transform a highly specialized cottage 
>        industry into a repeatable, and auditable language of Math 
>and         Computer Science that everyone can learn to read and 
>write and         use and reuse. Over the past three years a small 
>team of devoted         System Dynamics professionals have worked 
>with OASIS and our         partners in the System Dynamics Society to 
>create XMILE, which         stands before you today ready for OASIS 
>standards consideration.
>         
>         On behalf of IBM and everyone that has worked to create an 
>        industry standard that can transform the world with 
>ubiquitous         Systems Thinking, I urge you to please vote YES 
>for XMILE before         December 14th.
>                       The member ballot to consider approving XML 
>          Interchange Language for System Dynamics (XMILE) Version 
>1.0           as an OASIS Standard has been set up 
>         
>           The ballot closes 14 December 2015 at 23:59 UTC. You can 
>          access the ballot at:
>         
>           Internal link:
>           https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/voting/ballot.php?id=2891
>         
>           Publicly visible link:
>           https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ballot.php?id=2891 
>             
>       Thank you.
>       
>       Best Regards,
>       
>       Steve
>       
>       Motto: "Do First, Think, Do it Again"
>       
>          
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