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 Harm Jan, as discussed, this message is intended to give you an opening to introduce yourself and offer to assist, or provide updates to, Andriana if she likes. I do not know if the recent contacts we had from Rex and Elysa will require that you do something, but now you have the contact.Â
 We have not been giving enough attention to these directors, and in Andriana's particular case, she assumed advisory board duties for us. (See https://www.oasis-open.eu/people/board-of-directors/andriana-prentza/) Dr Carol gave her significant encouragement and support, when needed, and I fear we have not successfully replaced that role rapidly enough. Perhaps this introduction will help her to know that we are aware of her advisory panel service and her needs, until we manage to do more with OOEF shortly.
 Thanks Jamie
James Bryce Clark, General Counsel, OASIS Open, setting the standard for open collaborationÂ
Dear Professor Prentza: I deeply apologise that, as we've been addressing our own personnel turnover, OASIS has been doing an inferior job of staying in touch with you (and some other OOEF Stichting directors), especially as you kindly assumed advisory duties with the EU PRIMESTAND project and related matters.You should expect to hear more from us shortly with a status report, and a wider range of our recent plans and policy activity. However, immediately, we wanted to make sure that we fulfill our duty to support you, and have connections as necessary into OASIS, for purposes of whatever demands or questions come to you from the PRIMESTAND and related "STRATEGY.eu" Commission programs. ÂI think you must have already been introduced to our colleague Harm-Jan van Burg, copied here, who has assumed Carol Cosgrove's role. (https://www.oasis-open.org/people/staff/harm-jan-van-burg/) While no-one can fully replace Carol, of course, Harm-Jan has assumed her tasks, in interacting with Commission staff for us on policy matters. As you may know, that's very active right now, because European agencies are vigorously re-writing their policy goals for standardisation this summer. Luckily for us, Harm Jan has long experience as a senior public administration official in the Netherlands and other EU policy bodies, and so is well known to those policymakers. He is based in the Hague, when he's not with family in Novy Sad, Serbia, or piloting a very impressive mobile home between those points. ÂÂWe hope that he and I will have the opportunity shortly to report more to you and OOEF on this broader issue of large changes expected to EU open standards and open source policies. For this week, though, I am writing just to make or refresh this personal introduction, particularly as Harm Jan is in touch with the Emergency/ Crisis Management experts from our standards projects (CAP, EDXL, ITU-T X.1303) that may be relevant to PRIMESTAND's plans.ÂI hope that, in the short term, if we can be of assistance in any way with that project or inquiries you receive, you will feel free to reach out to Harm Jan, or for that matter myself (though I am in a truly awful time zone), or our Berlin-based colleague Claudia Rauch who I believe you also have met online.We tremendously appreciate your patience with us as some of our reorganizing occurred. The EU policy changes mentioned above give us even more opportunity to successfully establish Europe-centric open development project platforms -- senior policymakers very much wish to see ours flourish! Gershon Janssen and I will be in touch more about these matters as well; but I'd guess you will hear first from Harm Jan locally. Thank you again for lending your help to these efforts. Kind regards  Jamie Clark
James Bryce Clark
General Counsel
OASIS Open
jamie.clark@oasis-open.org
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