Re: [opencsa-ms] SCA/SDO Market Awareness Road-show

[Jeff Mischkinsky <jeff.mischkinsky@oracle.com>]

hi,
   AFAIK, this sort of activity is most definitely allowed. It is in  
fact one of the reasons why we formed a Member Section. That said,  
the SC will have to discuss and decide if it wants the MS to engage/ 
support this activity.

   I'm not exactly sure of the mechanism, we'll need some help/input  
from OASIS staff on that. It is also possible some of these  
activities could be integrated into the OASIS Information Days that  
OASIS runs as part of its promotional activities.

cheers,
    jeff

On Aug 03, 2007, at 1:58 PM, Michael Rowley wrote:

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> I am in favor of this being done as an Open CSA supported activity,  
> if such a thing is allowed.  If it is, I hope that the materials  
> could be made available to the member section for review and  
> comment (not necessarily approval).
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> Michael
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> From: Graham Barber [mailto:graham_barber@uk.ibm.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 1:24 PM
> To: opencsa-ms@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [opencsa-ms] SCA/SDO Market Awareness Road-show
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> Dear Steering Committee,
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> IBM is planning a set of half-day seminars through the remainder of  
> 2008 to present and promote SCA/SDO technology from a vendor- 
> neutral viewpoint in order to raise market awareness of these  
> technologies. We are not promoting IBM products as part of this  
> initiative, although we will use Tuscany as it's one of the few SCA  
> runtime offerings available today. The initiative comes from Karla  
> Norsworthy's Standards organization, not WebSphere's marketing  
> organization, so I emphasize: it is vendor-neutral. The seminars  
> will be presented by Doug Tidwell, who also spoke about SCA at  
> JavaOne this year.
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> The first 3 seminars will be in China at the end of this month.  
> Doug intends to continue in Europe & the USA in ~ October to  
> December. Current details are at: <http://www.ibm.com/ 
> developerworks/offers/techbriefings/details/scasdo.html>.
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> We are interested in making the Europe/USA seminars either multi- 
> vendor, or even OASIS Open CSA supported, if the interest exists.  
> We're happy to explore any option in line with objectives of  
> promoting the technologies, not vendor products. With greater multi- 
> vendor support, we could expand this initiative and reach even more  
> developers. Another benefit may be to encourage more real end-users  
> to join the TCs that will commence in September.
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> If there is no interest, then so be it; IBM will continue a more  
> limited program. If there is interest in doing this as a multi- 
> vendor, or an Open CSA backed program, please let me know and we  
> can commence some planning, or initiate an adoption sub-committee;  
> whatever is practical in line with OASIS guidelines.....
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> Graham J Barber,
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