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Subject: OASIS News: 24 April 2006
OASIS News 24 April 2006 Welcome to OASIS News, a weekly update of announcements, accomplishments, and activities for the international standards consortium. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BCM Becomes Newest OASIS Standard Consortium members voted to ratify the Business-Centric Methodology (BCM) v1.0 as an OASIS Standard. BCM defines methods to acquire interoperable e-business information systems within communities of interest. Congratulations to members of the OASIS BCM TC, and thanks to all who participated in the review and balloting process. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200604/msg00011.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Symposium Adds Poster Sessions For the first time, poster sessions will be included in the OASIS Symposium, which will be held 9-12 May in San Francisco. Poster sessions will provide a forum for participants to highlight and share their information and to receive technical advice from other attendees. Poster topics include "Applying DITA Across the Enterprise," "Open Source, Open Standard e-Government Exchange Services," "Supercharging the ebXML Registry with XML Persistence and Management," "Interoperability of Web Services Between J2EE and .NET: Value of WS-I Basic Profile," "Representational Issues for Scientific Units of Measure and Quantities," "Information Interoperability in DoD Logistics Contracting," and "Department of Defense Standards Interoperability - Past, Present, and Future." http://www.oasis-open.org/events/symposium_2006/posterpresentations.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS Declares T-Shirt Day in San Francisco Members are encouraged to show support for their favorite open standard by wearing an OASIS shirt, cap, or other gear to the Annual General Meeting on Wednesday, 10 May, in San Francisco. Prizes will be awarded to the most represented OASIS Standard. Order member gear at http://www.cafepress.com/oasis_open. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS Welcomes New Sponsors * Vasont Systems (www.vasont.com) is a provider of content management software and data services. The company is committed to helping organizations of all sizes publish multilingual technical documentation, product manuals, and other business information in the most efficient and effective way. * Courthouse News Service (www.courthousenews.com) is a news wire for lawyers. It is comprised of a network of correspondents who provide daily comprehensive reports on new appellate rulings, new legislation, and new civil cases from the federal and state courts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Consortium Seeks Computer Projector Donations To better support face-to-face Committee meetings at the Symposium, Forum, and other events, OASIS is seeking donations of computer projectors. Renting projectors at hotels and conferences can cost upwards of 1,000 USD per day for each TC. If your organization can offer a used computer projector or funds to purchase a projector, or if you can extend a company-discount on projectors, please contact events@oasis-open.org. All donations will be acknowledged in OASIS News and on the Consortium web site. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Events The following events are co-sponsored by OASIS: 9-12 May OASIS Symposium San Francisco, CA, USA http://www.oasis-open.org/events/symposium_2006/ 16-18 May BuilConn Palm Springs, CA, USA http://www.builconn.com/2006/na/default.asp 16-18 May GridWise Expo Palm Springs, CA, USA http://www.gridwiseexpo.com/2006/na/default.asp 16-18 May M2M Expo and Conference Palm Springs, CA, USA http://www.m2mexpo.com/2006/na/default.asp 9-14 June 3rd European Semantic Web Conference Budva, Montenegro http://www.eswc2006.org/ CABA Intelligent Buildings Leadership Forum 25-27 June Dallas, TX, USA http://www.caba.org/leadersforum/ 23-28 July XML Summer School University of Oxford, UK http://www.xmlsummerschool.com/ 24-28 July GeoWeb 2006 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada http://www.geoweb.org/
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