[docbook-tc] DocBook Charter

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

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Here is the revised charter.

Title: Charter for OASIS DocBook Technical Committee

Charter for OASIS DocBook Technical Committee

Not yet approved by the membership.

14 Oct 2002

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Table of Contents

Name of the Technical Committee

Purpose of Technical Committee

List of deliverables

Language

Date and Time of the First Meeting

Meeting Schedule

Membership

Names of the Technical Committee Co-chairs

Names of phone meeting sponsors

Names of Face-to-Face Meeting Sponsors

Policies and Procedures

Name of the Technical Committee

DocBook Technical Committee.

Purpose of Technical Committee

The purpose of this committee is to develop and maintain the DocBook family of specifications. In particular, this Technical Committee maintains the XML and SGML DocBook DTDs, a suite of extension modules, and a simplified authoring subset of DocBook. The Technical Committee may also support other schema languages in the future and may develop additional modules and derived document types.

List of deliverables

The DocBook Technical Committee plans to complete the following tasks before 31 Dec 2003:

1. DocBook V5.0 RELAX NG Schema.

2. DocBook V5.0 W3C XML Schema.

3. DocBook V5.0 DTD (in SGML and XML).

4. Simplified DocBook based on DocBook V5.0.

5. MathML Module for DocBook V5.0.

6. SVG Module for DocBook V5.0.

7. EBNF Module for DocBook V5.0.

8. XHTML Forms Module for DocBook V5.0.

Additional modules and versions of DocBook may also be produced at the Committee's discretion.

Language

All business will be conducted in English.

Date and Time of the First Meeting

The date and time of the first meeting has been lost in the mists of time. Sometime in 1994, or thereabouts.

Meeting Schedule

Teleconferences are planned for the following dates:

16 Oct 2002

The schedule of future meetings is being determined by the Technical Committee.

Agendas and contact information for the teleconferences is provided on the docbook-tc mailing list at least 24 hours in advance of the meeting.

The DocBook Technical Committee has no regularly scheduled face-to-face meetings.

Membership

Membership as of 16 Sep 2002:

Dennis Evans, Sun Microsystems

Paul Grosso, Arbortext

Dick Hamilton, HP

Nancy (Paisner) Harrison, Rational Software

Richard Lander, Microsoft

Sabine Ocker, Sun Microsystems

Michael Smith, Individual Member

Bob Stayton, Caldera

Tim Teebken, Microsoft

Norman Walsh, Sun Microsystems, Chair

Names of the Technical Committee Co-chairs

None.

Names of phone meeting sponsors

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Names of Face-to-Face Meeting Sponsors

None.

Policies and Procedures

The DocBook Technical Committee will follow the operating rules of OASIS. In addition, the Technical Committee will abide by the following practices enacted in accordance with the OASIS Technical Committee process:

1. Any OASIS member may join the docbook-tc mailing list. (Mailing list membership is not limited to voting and prospective committee members.)

2. The chair may initiate email ballots.

3. An email ballot is deemed invalid and void if one half or fewer of the eligible voting members of the committee cast a vote in the allotted time.

4. Under no circumstances shall the TC accept, during any phase, contributions that are not granted under perpetual, royalty free, non-discriminatory terms.

5. In no event shall this Technical Committee finalize or approve any technical specification if it believes that the use, distribution, or implementation of such specification would necessarily require the unauthorized infringement of any third party rights known to the Technical Committee, and such third party has not agreed to provide necessary license rights on perpetual, royalty-free, non-discriminatory terms.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

- -- 
Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>      | A life, admirable at first sight,
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | may have cost so much in imposed
Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | liabilities, chores and
                                   | self-abasement, that, brilliant
                                   | though it appears, it cannot be
                                   | considered other than a failure.
                                   | Another, which seems to have
                                   | misfired, is in reality a
                                   | triumphant success, because it has
                                   | cost so little.--Henry De
                                   | Montherlant
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