Thanks, Chet! That is news to be thankful for.
Congratulations to all of my colleagues on the DocBook TC!
Thanks and best regards,
--Scott
Scott Hudson
Content Strategist
Digital Aviation Learning & Development
Voting member:
OASIS DocBook TC, Publishers SC
OASIS DITA TC, Tech Comm SC, LW DITA SC, Learning Content SC
OASIS Augmented Reality in Information Products (ARIP) TC
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From: <docbook-tc@lists.oasis-open.org> on behalf of Chet Ensign <chet.ensign@oasis-open.org>
Date: Wednesday, November 23, 2016 at 7:22 AM
To: DocBook Technical Committee <docbook-tc@lists.oasis-open.org>
Subject: [docbook-tc] Fwd: Email sent to voters re: [voting] Groups - Ballot closed: "Approve DocBook Version 5.1 as an OASIS Standard"
Date: Wednesday, November 23, 2016 at 7:22 AM
To: DocBook Technical Committee <docbook-tc@lists.oasis-open.org>
Subject: [docbook-tc] Fwd: Email sent to voters re: [voting] Groups - Ballot closed: "Approve DocBook Version 5.1 as an OASIS Standard"
Members of the DocBook TC,
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/chet
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Chet Ensign
Director of Standards Development and TC Administration
OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society
http://www.oasis-open.org
Primary: +1 973-996-2298
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Congratulations! As you see, DocBook V5.1 has been approved by the members as the newest OASIS Standard. The ballot needed 42 votes to pass. It closed with 63. Nicely done.
I will announce the result publicly later this morning and work with you on the updates now needed to publish the OASIS Standard.
Our compliments and thanks for the work you all did to reach this point.
Best regards,
/chet
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From: <tc_admin@oasis-open.org>
Date: Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 7:02 PM
Subject: Email sent to voters re: [voting] Groups - Ballot closed: "Approve DocBook Version 5.1 as an OASIS Standard"
To: chet.ensign@oasis-open.org
Approve DocBook Version 5.1 as an OASIS Standard has closed.
From: <tc_admin@oasis-open.org>
Date: Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 7:02 PM
Subject: Email sent to voters re: [voting] Groups - Ballot closed: "Approve DocBook Version 5.1 as an OASIS Standard"
To: chet.ensign@oasis-open.org
Approve DocBook Version 5.1 as an OASIS Standard has closed.
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Approve DocBook Version 5.1 as an OASIS Standard Question Should DocBook Version 5.1 COS01 from the OASIS DocBook TC [1] be approved as an OASIS Standard? Voting Results 67 of 280 eligible companies cast their vote before the deadline. - Yes received 63 Votes - No received 0 Votes - Abstain received 4 Votes The ballot received 1 comment. Description The DocBook TC works to develop and maintain the DocBook family of specifications and to continue to support its ever growing user base. DocBook is a general purpose schema particularly well suited to books and papers about computer hardware and software (though it is by no means limited to these applications). Version 5.1 release introduces assemblies for topic-oriented authoring. It also addresses a selection of bugs and feature requests. DocBook Version 5.1 received 3 Statements of Use from Norman Walsh, Sagehill Enterprises and LexisNexis. URIs: The prose specification document and related files are available here: HTML (Authoritative): http://docs.oasis-open.org/ Editable source: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ PDF: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ Schemas: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ DocBook V4.x conversion tools: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ ZIP distribution file For your convenience, a ZIP file with the complete Candidate OASIS Standard is provided. You can access it at: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ === Additional information === [1] OASIS DocBook TC https://www.oasis-open.org/ View Results Group: OASIS organizational voting Date Opened: Wednesday, 9 November 2016 @ 12:00 am UTC Date Closed: Tuesday, 22 November 2016 @ 11:59 pm UTC This email has been sent to 355 members of OASIS Open. Here is a list of members who were notified:
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/chet
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Chet Ensign
Director of Standards Development and TC Administration
OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society
http://www.oasis-open.org
Primary: +1 973-996-2298
Mobile: +1 201-341-1393