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Subject: OASIS News: 4 Aug 2011
Welcome to OASIS News, a bi-weekly update of announcements, accomplishments, and activities for the international open standards consortium. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In this issue: * Members receive OASIS Distinguished Contributor Awards * Board of Directors elects officers, seats new members * Trust Elevation TC forms * Production Planning and Scheduling (PPS) public review begins * Registration Opens for Int’l Cloud Symposium (ICS) * OASIS upgrades TC collaboration tools * Annual General Meeting reports are available for members * Important Dates ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Members receive OASIS Distinguished Contributor Awards Don Day, Hal Lockhart, John Sabo, and Jerry Smith were recognized as OASIS Distinguished Contributors at the Annual General Meeting of Members in July. Recipients are chosen based on outstanding achievement in the areas of new work, influence, ability to build consensus, leadership and service to the consortium. http://www.oasis-open.org/member-roster/distinguished-contributors ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Board of Directors elects officers, seats new members At the annual face-to-face meeting in July, Bob Freund of Hitachi was elected to serve as chair and Frederick Hirsch of Nokia as vice chair of the OASIS Board of Directors. Jim Hughes of Microsoft continues as Treasurer and Peter Brown takes on the role of Secretary. Abbie Barbir of Bank of America, Peter Brown, Mike DeNicola of Fujitsu, Dave Ings of IBM, and Sanjay Patil of SAP began their newly elected two-year terms. http://www.oasis-open.org/board ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trust Elevation TC forms All interested parties are invited to participate in the new OASIS Electronic Identity Credential Trust Elevation Methods ("Trust Elevation") Technical Committee. This group will work to define a set of standardized protocols that service providers may use to elevate the trust in an electronic identity credential presented to them for authentication. The Trust Elevation TC is intended to respond to suggestions from several governments, including the U.S. NSTIC strategy document. TC proposers include representatives of Bank of America, CA Technologies, Identity Commons, RedHat, OIX, U.S. National Institutes of Health, U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), U.S. Veterans Health Administration, and others. Peter Alterman of U.S. NIST is the convener; a TC chair or two co-chairs will be elected at the first meeting, which will be held by teleconference on 5 Sept. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201108/msg00001.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Production Planning and Scheduling (PPS) public review begins Designed for manufacturing industries to enable collaborative planning and scheduling across platforms, PPS 1.0 describes rules for XML document exchange transaction messages and defines profiles for exchanging semantic information among different application systems. This public review ends 31 Aug. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201108/msg00000.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registration Opens for Int’l Cloud Symposium (ICS) A preliminary programme and list of speakers are now available for the event, which will be held 10-14 October at the historic Ditton Manor near London. Hosted by OASIS, in collaboration with EU-funded Siena Initiative and the Cloud Best Practice Network, ICS 2011 is the first in a series of symposia that will bring together leaders from around the world to exchange experiences and explore new ways to accelerate robust and trusted Cloud deployments for the public sector. http://events.oasis-open.org/home/cloud/2011 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS upgrades TC collaboration tools The members-only portions of the OASIS website are being upgraded to the latest version of the collaboration platform provided by Kavi Corp. This change promises to deliver a more reliable infrastructure and modern tool-set for member use. All web and email assets on www.oasis-open.org, tools.oasis-open.org, and lists.oasis-open.org will be off-line the weekend of 27-28 Aug for the transition. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201108/msg00001.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Annual General Meeting reports are available for members Presentations and financial reports from the 2011 AGM, which was held 27 July at the OASIS offices in Burlington, MA, USA, are now available online for member review. http://www.oasis-open.org/private/meetings/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: 10 Aug Nominations close for LegalXML Steering Committee http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/announce/201107/msg00001.html 16 Aug IDtrust Steering Committee elections close http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/announce/201107/msg00000.html 22 Aug Public Review of OpenDocument 1.2 ends http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201106/msg00005.html 24 Aug OASIS Emergency Interoperability Member Section hosts reception at NIEM www.iir.com/registration/niemtraining/ 25 Aug LegalXML Steering Committee elections close http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/announce/201107/msg00001.html 27-28 Aug Members-only web site and tools off-line for upgrade http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201108/msg00001.html 31 Aug Production Planning and Scheduling (PPS) public review ends http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201108/msg00000.html 5 Sept Trust Elevation TC holds first meeting via teleconference http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201108/msg00001.html 10-14 Oct OASIS hosts International Cloud Symposium near London http://events.oasis-open.org/home/cloud/2011 3-5 Nov OASIS cosponsors RuleML2011; members receive 15% discount http://decibel.cirsfid.unibo.it/ruleml-brf-2011/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS News is published in English, Chinese, Italian, Japanese, and Korean. Volunteers to translate the newsletter into other languages are welcome; contact communications@oasis-open.org. Archives: http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis_news_archive.php
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