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Subject: OASIS News: 3 Aug 2007
OASIS News 3 Aug 2007 Welcome to OASIS News, a bi-weekly update of announcements, accomplishments, and activities for the international open standards consortium. In this issue: * OASIS issues Calls for Participation in new SOA TCs * DITA 1.1 becomes an OASIS Standard * OASIS Board and TAB seat new members and select officers * Public review begins for WSRP 2.0 * Executives from SAP and IDC will keynote at Open Standards Forum * OpenDocument Adoption Committee organizes ODF Camp at OOoCon * Important dates ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS issues Calls for Participation in new SOA TCs Members of the OASIS Open CSA Member Section are organizing six TCs to simplify SOA application development by advancing the Service Component Architecture (SCA) family of specifications. SCA defines a model for creating business solutions using service components. The new TCs include: - SCA Policy TC, convened by Michael Rowley of BEA; - SCA Assembly TC, convened by Jeff Mischkinsky of Oracle; - SCA Bindings TC convened by Mike Edwards of IBM; - SCA/J TC, convened by Sanjay Patil of SAP; - SCA BPEL TC, convened by Mike Edwards of IBM; and - SCA C/C++ TC, convened by Bryan Aupperle of IBM http://oasis-opencsa.org/sca-cfp ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DITA 1.1 becomes an OASIS Standard Members have approved version 1.1 of the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) as an OASIS Standard. DITA builds content reuse into the authoring process, defining an XML architecture for designing, writing, managing, and publishing many kinds of information in print and on the Web. Congratulations to DITA TC chair, Don Day of IBM, and to all TC members for this accomplishment. http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200708/msg00000.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS Board and TAB seat new members and select officers Peter Brown of Pensive.eu, Mike DeNicola of Fujitsu, Eduardo Gutentag of Sun Microsystems, Claus von Riegen of SAP, and Michael Winters of IBM began two-year terms on the OASIS Board of Directors this week. They join Ed Cobb of BEA, Bob Glushko of the University of California at Berkeley, Frederick Hirsch of Nokia, and Jeff Mischkinsky of Oracle, whose terms extend to July 2008, and Patrick Gannon, who has an appointed seat on the Board as CEO of OASIS. Gutentag will continue to serve as Board chair, Cobb as vice-chair, Gannon as president, Hirsch as secretary, and DeNicola as treasurer. Madhav Vodnala of Fiorano Software, Martin Chapman of Oracle, Hal Lockhart of BEA, and Bill Cox began two-year terms on the OASIS Technical Advisory Board (TAB). They join Abbie Barbir of Nortel, Bill Barnhill of Booz Allen Hamilton, and Andy Lee of Changfeng Open Standards Platform Software Alliance, whose terms extend to July 2008. Barbir and Lockhart will continue to serve as TAB co-chairs. http://www.oasis-open.org/who/bod.php http://www.oasis-open.org/who/tab.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Public review begins for WSRP 2.0 The OASIS Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) TC has approved version 2.0 of the WSRP specification as a Committee Draft and submitted it for public review. WSRP standardizes presentation-oriented Web services for use by aggregating intermediaries, such as portals. The review ends 22 Sept. http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200707/msg00011.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Executives from SAP and IDC will keynote at OASIS European event David Keene, Vice President of Technology for SAP UK, and Rob Hailstone, Software Infrastructure Practice Director of the Butler Group, will provide keynote addresses for the upcoming Open Standards Forum, Oct 29-30, near London. The executives will present their own perspectives on the topic of "Web services for the Transitional Government." The full program for this event, which is being produced by OASIS in cooperation with the Butler Group, will be announced soon. Sponsors for the Forum include BEA Systems, IBM, EDS, Primeton, SAP, and Sun Microsystems. Additional sponsorship opportunities are still available. http://events.oasis-open.org/home/forum/2007/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OpenDocument Adoption Committee organizes ODF Camp at OOoCon ODF and XML developers will come together in Barcelona, Spain on 20 September to identify and resolve differences between key implementations of the OpenDocument OASIS Standard. Featured as part of the OpenOffice.org Conference (OOoCon 2007), this event is intended to be the first in a series of developer workshops organized by the OASIS ODF Adoption Committee. All are welcome to attend; participants must register with OOoCon. http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2007/index.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates 26 Aug: Customer Information Quality (CIQ) 3.0 public review ends http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200706/msg00013.html 22 Sept: Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) public review ends http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200707/msg00011.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- **Membership Tip #42** Stay informed on upcoming OASIS press opportunities http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=pubrel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS News is published in English, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian. Volunteers to translate the newsletter into other languages are welcome; contact communications@oasis-open.org. 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