[Fwd: [chairs] Presentations and General Information on TC work]

["Monica J. Martin" <Monica.Martin@Sun.COM>]

See this message from OASIS staff. We will discuss in our call Tuesday, 
and think about what documents, white papers, etc. we wish to provide 
that could be used for external messaging by OASIS. Thanks and comments 
welcome.

> James Bryce Clark wrote:  We frequently are asked by outside sources 
> -- analysts, prospective members, other standards groups -- to provide 
> pointers to useful summary resources about a TC's work.  Obviously, we 
> would like to direct inquiries to the most useful available 
> material.   These may take various forms -- a
> one-page datasheet, a ten-page white paper, a slide deck, a user's 
> guide or a chart.   Frequently these materials exist, but they are not 
> always in an obvious location.
>
>     In order to facilitate inquiries, your staff is creating a 
> distinct new documents folder in the web-based repository for each TC, 
> normatively called "Presentations and General Information."  This will 
> remain accessible to TCs  as usual, but staff also will add materials, 
> as described in the further detail appended below.  The usual rules, 
> including the OASIS IPR Policy, apply to material that is uploaded to 
> a TC's repository and thereby contributed to the TC.
>
>     A large and diverse group of communities closely watch OASIS and 
> its TC projects.  We should strive to help them find existing 
> entry-level resources 
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> explain our work.
>
>     Regards  JBC
>
> ~   James Bryce Clark
> ~   Director, Standards Development, OASIS
> ~   jamie.clark@oasis-open.org
>
> FURTHER DETAIL
>
>     Not every slide deck or document in a TC's repository is broadly 
> informative to external readers.  Many TC-related documents focus on a 
> particular task, or feature; or the work of a particular viewpoint or 
> enterprise; or a proposal not vet formed or resolved.  For this 
> special folder, we are seeking to point only to a few documents that:
>     (a) originate with the TC or its members;
>     (b) are reasonably complete and presentable; and
>     (c) fairly describe the TC's progress, recent work or current arc 
> of anticipated work;
>     (d) in a manner that would be meaningful to non-TC-members.
>
> Note, these criteria do not rule out slides from a branded source; but 
> do rule out material that is substantively about advertisement, rather 
> than the OASIS specification.
>
>     OASIS staff reserves the right to move documents in and out of the 
> "Presentations and General Info" folder, as seems appropriate to 
> maintain useful and timely pointers..  This will be a (slightly) 
> dynamic list, and therefore not the sole or archival location for any 
> resource.  If we include existing TC repository documents we will 
> *copy* them and upload the copy, leaving the original in its present 
> location, so as not to break any links.   If we move items out of that 
> folder, we will make sure they persist in at least one other TC 
> repository location.  We will send a manual or auto-generated note to 
> the TC general e-mail list for each change.
>
>     Please feel free to let us know about, and to upload, suitable 
> material that  may be suitable as external-facing general descriptions 
> of the TC's work.
>
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