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Subject: OASIS News: 17 April 2008
OASIS News 17 April 2008 Welcome to OASIS News, a bi-weekly update of announcements, accomplishments, and activities for the international open standards consortium. ------------------------------------------------------------------- In this issue: * Nominations open for OASIS Board and TAB * OASIS to hold Annual General Meeting and Reception * Countdown to Symposium begins * Public review starts for WebCGM 2.1 * Nominations open for IDtrust Steering Committee * IDtrust hosts free webinar on abstract structured identifiers ------------------------------------------------------------------- Nominations open for OASIS Board and TAB Nominations are now being accepted for the OASIS Board of Directors and for the Technical Advisory Board (TAB). The OASIS Board of Directors is comprised of top-level executives, experienced in managing growth, who exercise a major impact on the strategic direction of the consortium. TAB members are technical experts who identify opportunities and areas for standardization and provide advise on the consortium's technical agenda. Nominations for both the Board of Directors and the TAB close 15 May; elections will be held 19 May - 19 June. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200804/msg00003.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS to hold Annual General Meeting and Reception All OASIS members are strongly encouraged to attend this year's AGM, which will be held on Wednesday, 30 April, at the Santa Clara Marriott in conjunction with the Open Standards 2008 Symposium. The AGM provides a members-only opportunity to review and respond to a state-of-the-union address presented by the OASIS Board of Directors. A member reception, sponsored by SAP, follows the AGM. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200804/msg00004.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- Countdown to Symposium begins On 28 April, the OASIS annual symposium begins in Santa Clara, California. This year's program, "Composability in SOA," was organized by the OASIS Technical Advisory Board with support from the Open CSA Member Section. Speakers from around the world will address SOA-related topics including mash-ups, Service-Oriented AJAX, SCA, BPEL, SDO, BPM, Web Service Transactions, Data Security in SOA, SOA Reference Architecture, and more. Online registrations will be accepted until 24 April; on-site registrations will open 28 April. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200804/msg00002.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- Public review starts for WebCGM 2.1 The OASIS CGM Open WebCGM TC has approved WebCGM version 2.1 as a Committee Draft and submitted it for public review. WebCGM is a profile of the Computer Graphics Metafile, an ISO standard for the interchange of 2D vector and mixed vector/raster graphics. WebCGM is optimized for Web applications in technical illustration, electronic documentation, geophysical data visualization, and similar fields. This public review ends 1 June. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200804/msg00001.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- Nominations open for IDtrust Steering Committee Three seats on the OASIS Identity and Trusted Infrastructure (IDtrust) Member Section Steering Committee are up for election. The Steering Committee provides guidance to help the Member Section achieve its goal of promoting greater understanding and adoption of standards-based identity and trusted infrastructure technologies, policies, and practices. Any IDtrust participant may nominate or be nominated as a candidate for the Steering Committee. (Any OASIS member may join IDtrust at no additional cost.) Nominations close 24 April; the election will be held 28 April - 12 May. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200804/msg00003.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- IDtrust hosts free webinar on abstract structured identifiers "The Relationship Between OpenID, Higgins, i-names, and XDI" is the topic of a complimentary webinar offered on Tuesday, 6 May, at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM US EDT. The event will explore the reasons distributed directories, digital identity frameworks, ontologies, reputation systems, and other emerging Web technologies need abstract structured identifiers. The webinar will be hosted by the OASIS IDtrust Member Section and the Extensible Resource Identifier (XRI) TC. An interactive question and answer period will follow the presentation. https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/332275036 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates: 21 Apr: OASIS hosts ebXML Workshop at UBL International conference http://events.oasis-open.org/home/ebxml/2008/ 23 Apr: UOML-X TC holds first meeting (teleconference) http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200803/msg00007.html 24 Apr: IDtrust Steering Committee nominations close http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200804/msg00003.html 28 Apr - 1 May: OASIS hosts 'Open Standards 2008: SOA Composability' symposium http://events.oasis-open.org/home/symposium/2008/ 30 Apr OASIS holds Annual General Meeting and Reception http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200804/msg00004.html 1 May OASIS eGov holds eID and Citizen-Centered Administration workshop http://events.oasis-open.org/home/symposium/2008/egovworkshop ORMS TC holds first meeting at Open Standards 2008 http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200803/msg00001.html 3 May Public review for three WS-RX specifications ends http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200803/msg00002.html 5 May UOML Part 1 public review ends http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200803/msg00003.html 6 May Free IDtrust webinar on OpenID, Higgins, i-names, and XDI https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/332275036 15 May Board of Directors and TAB nominations close http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200804/msg00003.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS News is published in English, Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Russian. 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