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Subject: OASIS News: 24 April 2007
OASIS News 24 April 2007 Welcome to OASIS News, a bi-weekly update of announcements, accomplishments, and activities for the international open standards consortium. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- HEADLINES: * Nominations for OASIS Board and TAB close 1 May * Open CSA Member Section launches; Steering Committee nominations open * Public reviews begin for EDXL-RM 1.0 and EML 5.0 * OASIS Symposium attracts international audience * Four OASIS Technical Committees complete work * Call for Papers issued for OASIS Open Standards Day Germany * OASIS seeks volunteers to translate newsletter into French * XML Summer School offers discount to OASIS members * Recent press releases * Upcoming deadlines ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Nominations for OASIS Board and TAB close 1 May Nominations for candidates to fill five seats on the OASIS Board of Directors (BoD) and four seats on the Technical Advisory Board (TAB) remain open until 1 May. Any OASIS member organization may nominate candidates; nominees are not required to be members of the Consortium. Tuesday, 1 May, is also the deadline for members to submit questions for BoD candidates on issues regarding the management and direction of the Consortium. http://www.oasis-open.org/who/election_process.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Open CSA Member Section launches; Steering Committee nominations open The OASIS Open Composite Services Architecture (Open CSA) Member Section has been formed to advance open standards that simplify SOA application development. Open CSA will oversee several new OASIS TCs that will be chartered to promote the further development and adoption of the Service Component Architecture (SCA) and Service Data Objects (SDO) families of specifications. Any OASIS member may participate in Open CSA; there is no additional cost, and no dues allocations will be made. Nominations for three open seats on the Open CSA Steering Committee will be accepted until 7 May. http://www.oasis-opencsa.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Public reviews begin for EDXL-RM 1.0 and EML 5.0 The OASIS Emergency Management TC has approved the Emergency Data Exchange Language Resource Messaging (EDXL-RM) 1.0 as a Committee Draft and submitted the specification for public review. EDXL-RM 1.0 describes a suite of standard messages for data sharing among emergency and other information systems that deal in requesting and providing emergency equipment, supplies, people, and teams. The review ends 8 June. The OASIS Election and Voter Services TC has approved the Election Markup Language (EML) 5.0 as a Committee Draft and submitted the specification for public review. EML 5.0 defines a standard method for the structured interchange among hardware, software, and service providers who engage in any aspect of providing election or voter services to public or private organizations. The review ends 10 June. EDXL-RM http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200704/msg00011.html EML http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200704/msg00011.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS Symposium attracts international audience Delegates from 16 countries in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America gathered to explore open standards for e-business and e-government at the fourth annual OASIS Symposium in San Diego, California last week. Presentation slides and links to blogs on the event are now available on the Symposium web site. http://www.oasis-open.org/events/symposium/2007/proceedings.php http://www.oasis-open.org/events/symposium/2007/news.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Four OASIS Technical Committees complete work The OASIS Asynchronous Service Access Protocol (ASAP), SOA Adoption Blueprints, Electronic Business Service Oriented Architecture (ebSOA), and DCML Framework TCs have completed their work and are now closed. Thanks to the members and leadership of these TCs for their contributions. The TCs' public pages and email archives will remain permanently accessible. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers issued for OASIS Open Standards Day Germany The second annual OASIS Open Standards Day Germany will be held in conjunction with the tcworld conference on 7-8 November in Wiesbaden, Germany. The event will be hosted by tekom, the German society of technical communicators. Submissions for presentations or workshops on DITA, DocBook, OpenDocument, and XLIFF are being accepted until 4 May. http://www.tekom.de/upload/alg/CfP%20tcworld%202007.pdf ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS seeks volunteers to translate newsletter into French In response to requests to publish OASIS News in French, the consortium is seeking one or more volunteers interested in providing a few hours of translation twice a month. OASIS News is currently translated into Chinese by Wang Jing of Changfeng Open Standards Platform Software Alliance, into Japanese by Keizo Okabe, and into Russian by Paul Rabinovich. http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis-news-translation.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------- XML Summer School offers discount to OASIS members Co-sponsored by OASIS, CSW's XML Summer School is targeted for anyone using, designing, or implementing XML-based and related technology solutions. Tracks on Web Services and Identity, XML in Healthcare, and Building XML Applications will be offered. Delegates who register before 30 April receive a 15% discount; after this date, all OASIS members will continue to receive a 10% discount. www.xmlsummerschool.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Recent press releases OASIS Advances Standards to Simplify SOA Application Development: Open Composite Services Architecture (Open CSA) Member Section Forms http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis-news-2007-04-11.php Members Approve Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL) as OASIS Standard http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis-news-2007-04-12.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming deadlines 1 May: Nominations for OASIS Board of Directors and TAB http://www.oasis-open.org/who/election_process.php 4 May: DITA 1.1 public review http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200703/msg00007.html OASIS Open Standards Day Germany CfP http://www.tekom.de/upload/alg/CfP%20tcworld%202007.pdf 7 May: Nominations for Open CSA Member Section Steering Committee http://www.oasis-opencsa.org/ 8 June: Emergency Data Exchange Language Resource Messaging (EDXL-RM) 1.0 http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200704/msg00011.html 10 June: Election Markup Language (EML) 5.0 public review http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200704/msg00017.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- **MEMBERSHIP TIP #35** Start a discussion list to build support for a new idea http://wiki.oasis-open.org/staff-stds-wiki/DiscussionGroups ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Archives: http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis_news_archive.php
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