Re: TC Status

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Hi Mary,

Meetings:
We have only had 1 meeting in the past 3 months, not 4.
We have had 2 meetings in the past 4 months.
We have had 3 meetings in the past 6 months.

With today's meeting, those figures will change to:
2 meetings in last 3 months,
3 meetings in the past 4 months, and
3 meetings in the past 6 months.

Those dates you were counting were mostly cancellations. I did cancel 
them, but when Kavi changed a while back, in fall sometime, when I 
changed a date for a monthly meeting, or cancelled, it was a 
repeating event that I did not notice I needed to change for all 
repeats, hence the list of old repeating dates was added to the 
calendar.

Also, I went back to retroactively cancell, and discovered it couldn't be done.

Members:
We have 3 voting members. We should have 4 (see below).

Monica Martin has not attended enough to maintain her membership, and 
I am sure she has too many other commitments to do so at this point.

Apparently, I neglected, as a member organization representative to 
include Dr, Sylvia Candelaria de Ram as a volunteer employee of 
Humanmarkup.org, Inc. or perhaps, as I have heard, she needed to 
request this and I neglected to understand this and communicate it to 
her. If this is true, could you inform me? She should be a voting 
member.

(I know I need to review all the TC proces changes, but, as with all, 
or most,  OASIS members, unless our duties in OASIS are a part of our 
paid employment, these commitments tend to be lower down on our 
individual priorities, so that when energy runs out, they are in the 
group of things that we have been unable to complete.)

Also, apparently Michelle Raymond has not yet managed to get her 
relationship with Honeywell and Honeywell's relationship with OASIS 
onto a solid working basis.

If both of those can be resolved favorably, we would have 5 voting 
members, and if Dr. Bob Smith joins OASIS as an independent, we would 
have 6 voting members.

As you heard, and I tried to make clear, I have attempted to shift 
the burden of keeping this TC going onto our members, all of whom, 
including myself,  have the selfsame caveat: as time permits.

Symposium:
We don't plan a face to face meeting. We don't know if we will be in 
existence at that point. My abstract was accepted, so I will be 
speaking.

If you joined our meeting for a few minutes, it would probably be 
worthwhile, since I am adding a discussion of OASIS IPR policy to the 
agenda, so that we can vote on it next month. I have reviewed the 
CIDOC CRM, and while I have some questions, I can vouch for handling 
the editing of the Primary Base Schema revision, so our plans are 
still on track for delivering it as a committee draft at our April 
meeting.

Regards,
Rex



At 9:38 PM -0500 2/26/06, Mary McRae wrote:
>To Chair(s) of the Human Markup Technical Committee:
>
>
>
>In an effort to ensure that we have an accurate picture of each 
>technical committee, we will be sending out quarterly notices 
>containing activity statistics as captured in KAVI to the TC chairs. 
>Please verify this information and let us know if there are any 
>inaccuracies, or other information we should be aware of.
>
>According to the TC Roster, there are:
>14 individuals (includes members as well as observers)
>4 members (includes both voting and non-voting members)
>4 voting members
>
>According to the TC Calendar, there have been:
>1 meetings in the past month
>4 meetings in the past 3 months
>12 meetings in the past 6 months
>   
>We'd also like to ensure that we have the most recent information 
>regarding any liaisons between your TC and other OASIS TCs as well 
>as other organizations. Please provide a pointer to where we can 
>find this information.
>
>
>
>I'd like to take this opportunity to remind you of the upcoming 
>OASIS Symposium. If your TC is interested in holding a face-to-face 
>meeting in San Francisco, please contact Jane Harnad at 
><mailto:jane.harnad@oasis-open.org>jane.harnad@oasis-open.org. In 
>addition, if your TC is interested in organizing an Interoperability 
>Demonstration or Webinar, please contact Dee Schur at 
>dee.schur@oasis-open.org.
>
>
>
>On behalf of OASIS, we'd like to extend our thanks for the time and 
>effort expended by you and each of the committee members. If there's 
>anything that we can do to be of assistance, or if you have any 
>questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us.
>
>
>
>Sincerely,
>
>
>
>Mary
>
>
>
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>Mary P McRae
>OASIS
>Manager of TC Administration
>email: <mailto:mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org>mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org  
>web: <http://www.oasis-open.org/>www.oasis-open.org
>phone: 603.232.9090
>cell: 603.557.7985
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>OASIS Symposium: The Meaning of Interoperability, 9-12 May, San 
>Francisco 
><http://www.oasis-open.org/events/symposium_2006/>http://www.oasis-open.org/events/symposium_2006/


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