Re: For your eyes only: Embargoed Open Projects Press Release

["Ruff, Nithya" <NITHYA_RUFF@comcast.com>]

Looks very good Jory. 

 

Thank You,

 

Nithya A. Ruff

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From: <op-advisory-council@lists.oasis-open.org> on behalf of Jory Burson <jory.burson@oasis-open.org>
Date: Friday, May 3, 2019 at 10:58 AM
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Cc: Ray George <ray.george@oasis-open.org>, Carol Geyer <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org>
Subject: For your eyes only: Embargoed Open Projects Press Release

 

Hi AC members, 

 

Below is the text of our embargoed press release which Ray has written and will begin pitching reporters. We plan to release this on May 8, so keep it under wraps until then, but I wanted to make sure you all saw it before hand because we are also sharing the names of our advisory council members. Please give it a read-through! Further, if you'd be willing to speak with a reporter about Open Projects in your capacity as an AC member, that would be great.

 

Let Ray or I know if you have any edits/comments!

Best,

Jory

 

 

OASIS Introduces Open Projects Program to Bridge Open Source and Standards Development

 

IBM, Cisco, Airbus, Siemens, CIB, The Document Foundation and others
sponsor first OASIS Open Projects

 

BOSTON (PRWEB) MAY 08, 2019 - OASIS, a global nonprofit consortium, today announced the launch of Open Projects, the first-of-its-kind program that creates a more transparent and collaborative future for open source and standards development. Open Projects gives communities the power to develop what they choose--APIs, code, specifications, reference implementations, guidelines-- in one place, under open source licenses, with a path to recognition in global policy and procurement.

 

The lines between open source and open standards have been blurring for some time, and communities in both arenas have been calling for more flexibility and options for collaboration. Open Projects is a new approach that addresses the need for change in everything from handling IP to governance and decision-making, from funding to establishing trust and assuring quality.

 

âWith Open Projects, we're building a movement to transform the open source and standards world,â said Gershon Janssen, Chairman, OASIS Board of Directors. âWe want to dissolve the barriers that separate communities. We want to empower groups with more control and streamlined governance. We want to support projects by giving them all the process they need--and not a bit more--so they can accomplish great things fast.â

 

Open Projects builds on the OASIS experience and reputation for producing quality work that's been trusted and supported by governments and industries worldwide for more than 25 years.

 

"For many, open source has become a means of establishing de facto software standards. However, de facto standards are not recognized by many governments and institutions.â said Chris Ferris, and IBM Fellow and CTO Open Tech for IBM. âOASIS Open Projects provides an important new opportunity to leverage the rapid innovation of open source in the process of developing open standards. The potential to achieve ISO, IEC, or ITU standards approval is a huge value for many important open source initiatives.â Ferris, who also holds a leadership position on Hyperledger Fabric project, played an instrumental role in defining the Open Projects program and now serves on its Advisory Council.

 

The Open Projects program is being advanced by some of the most accomplished, regarded minds in open source today. The Open Projects Advisory Council provides strategic insight on the needs of open source projects, identifying current practices that work well and exploring new approaches where improvements can be made with a goal of curating the future of open source. Advisory Council members include:

 

  Silona Bonewald (VP of Community Architecture, Hyperledger)

  Kris Borchers (former Executive Director, JS Foundation)

  Amanda Brock (Director of Open UK, Trustable CEO)

  Deborah Bryant (Sr Director of OS, Red Hat)

  Chris Ferris (CTO Open Tech for IBM, Hyperledger TSC member)

  Georg Grutter (Chief Expert, Bosch)

  Jim Jagielski (Open Source Chef for ConsenSys, co-founder of Apache Foundation)

  Tobie Langel (Codespeaks, consultant and chair of AMP Advisory Committee)

  Heather Meeker (Open Source Licensing Specialist, OSS Capital)

  Tracy Miranda (Director of OS Community, CloudBees)

  Nithya Ruff (Head of Open Source, Comcast)

  Josh Simmons (Sr. Open Source Strategist for Salesforce, OSI Board Director)

  Nigel Simpson (Director Tech Strategy, Walt Disney Corp).

 

As part of the program announcement, OASIS is launching the first two Open Projects - Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) and OpenDocument Format (ODF) Advocacy.

 

The OSLC Open Project advances a suite of standard REST APIs to connect data and achieve the digital thread across domains, applications, and organizations. It is sponsored by AirBus, Austrian Institute of Technology, Bank of America, Boeing, Dassault, Fujitsu, IBM, Red Hat, Siemens, SoftwareAG, Swedish Royal Institute of Technology, and Tasktop.

 

âOSLC helps creating standard REST APIs that solve industry integration challenges,â said Andrew Berezovskyi, a representative from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. âOpen Project enables the OSLC community to produce deliverables that meet requirements from various stakeholders without being hindered by the weight of foundation bureaucracy or the baggage that comes with financial, legal, technical, and marketing administration.â

 

The ODF (Open Document Format) Advocacy Open Project promotes the worldâs leading document standard. After being approved as an OASIS Standard, ODF was recognized by ISO/IEC and endorsed by governments around the world as a way to ensure permanent access to data and eliminate the risk of vendor lock-in.  The ODF Advocacy Open Project is sponsored by CIB and The Document Foundation.

 

[Placeholder quote, Not approved] âODF guarantees access to data that can be transferred between different computers and operating systems, without having to worry about vendor lock-in or license fees,â said Italo Vignoli, Co-Founder, The Document Foundation.â

 

Additional Open Projects for blockchain and other areas will be announced in the coming months. Further details about OASIS Open Projects are available here or email info@oasis-open-projects.org.

 

About OASIS

One of the most respected, member-driven standards bodies in the world, OASIS offers projectsâincluding open source projectsâa path to standardization and de jure approval for reference in international policy and procurement. OASIS has a broad technical agenda encompassing cybersecurity, privacy, cryptography, cloud computing, IoT--any initiative for developing code, APIs, specifications, or reference implementations can find a home at OASIS. Some of the most widely adopted OASIS Standards include AMQP, CAP, CMIS, DITA, DocBook, KMIP, MQTT, OpenC2, OpenDocument, OSLC, PKCS, SAML, STIX, TAXII, TOSCA, UBL, and XLIFF. Many of these have gone on to be published as ISO, IEC, or ITU standards. New work is encouraged, and all are welcome to participate. http://www.oasis-open.org

 

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