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Subject: OASIS News: 27 March 2006
OASIS News 27 March 2006 Welcome to OASIS News, a weekly update of announcements, accomplishments, and activities for the international standards consortium. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS Launches DITA XML.org Focus Area The latest addition to the XML.org Focus Areas provides a community gathering place for the Darwin Information Typing Architecture. It is the first in a series of XML.org Focus Areas devoted to supporting communities-of-interest for OASIS Standards. The site serves as a knowledge base, bulletin board, and directory where readers share news, events, product listings, services, case studies, testimonials, and recommendations. The site also feature wiki-style linking that enables the public to dynamically collaborate on documents and add new pages. Based on the Drupal open source platform, the Focus Area was designed by members of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee: Don Day and Michael Priestly of IBM; Bruce Esrig of Lucent; Kay Ethier; JoAnn Hackos and Jen Linton of Comtech; Scott Prentice of Leximation; and Jerry Silver of Blast Radius. Funding is provided by Focus Area sponsors, Adobe, Blast Radius, Comtech, Innodata Isogen, PTC, and Vasont. Additional sponsors are welcome; contact peter.roden@oasis-open.org for details. http://dita.xml.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Public Review of WSDM-MUWS and WSDM-MOWS Begins The OASIS Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) TC approved the WSDM Management Using Web Services (MUWS) and WSDM Management of Web Services (MOWS) specifications as Committee Drafts and submitted them for public review. All interested parties are encouraged to submit comments on these specifications, which define Web services architecture to manage distributed resources. Comments should be received by 19 May. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200603/msg00005.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS Opens Board of Directors Meeting to Members All Consortium members are invited to attend an open session of the quarterly meeting of the OASIS Board of Directors, which will be held on 11-12 May, in conjunction with the OASIS Symposium in San Francisco. To ensure adequate space is allocated, members should indicate their intentions to attend the Board meeting on the Symposium registration form. http://www.oasis-open.org/events/symposium_2006/related_events.php#board meeting ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS Symposium Offers Additional Opportunities for Participation The Symposium Book Table will showcase the growing body of publications that feature technical and executive-level information on OASIS Standards and specifications. This is not a sale, but a display, with sample books being raffled off at the Symposium reception. Authors, publishers, or collectors interested in donating books should contact events@oasis-open.org by 10 April 2006. The Symposium will also feature Birds-of-a-Feather sessions, which may be organized by any attendee. BoFs can be used to discuss issues (in any language of choice) that apply to OASIS Committees, standards, specifications or ideas for new work. BoF signup may be done in advance or onsite. Register for the Symposium before 31 March and save 50 USD. Reserve your hotel room before 15 April to receive the special rate of 199 USD per night. http://www.oasis-open.org/events/symposium_2006/index.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Consortium Welcomes New Members Vasont Systems, the newest OASIS Sponsor-level member, provides content management software and data service. Its content management system enables organizations of all sizes to create, manage and store their multilingual content once for multi-channel delivery to print, PDF, CD-ROM and Web formats. Vasont (http://www.vasont.com) is also a sponsor of the DITA XML.org Focus Area. OASIS welcomes new Contributor-level members, Mekon Limited, the Pennsylvania Association of Notaries, Stitching SURF, CGI Group, Inc, the National Informatics Centre, Changfeng Open Standards Platform Software Alliance, and the Property Records Industry Association. http://www.oasis-open.org/about/index.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Events The following events are co-sponsored by OASIS: 27-29 March Gartner Business Process Management Summit 2006 Nashville, TN, USA http://www.gartner.com/2_events/conferences/bpm2.jsp An OASIS members-only discount is available. 3-5 April Content Management Strategies Conference San Francisco, CA, USA http://www.cm-strategies.com/ 23-27 April Wilshire Meta-Data Conference and DAMA International Symposium Denver, CO, USA http://www.wilshireconferences.com/MD2006/index.htm An OASIS members-only discount is available. 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/ 23-28 July XML Summer School University of Oxford, UK http://www.xmlsummerschool.com/
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