[xtm-wg] Austin meeting - March 1-3

["Eric Freese" <eric@isogen.com>]

This note is to announce that the next meeting of the TopicMaps.Org AG to be
held in Austin, Texas, USA.  The meeting will be held on March 1-3, 2001
from 9AM-5PM.  The meeting is being held in conjunction with the GCA's
Knowledge Technologies conference (www.knowledgetechnologies.net).  The
meetings will be held in the Austin Convention Center.  GCA will let us know
which meeting rooms will be used closer to the actual dates.

GCA has a block of hotel rooms at a special conference rate.  Reservations
need to be made by FEBRUARY 7 (that's tomorrow folks!) to get the conference
rate.

Anticipated items to be covered at this meeting include:
- charter update proposals not accomplished via email
  - seperation of chair and editor roles
  - proxy
  - establish maximum time for email votes
  - redefine quorum (from 2/3 to absolute majority)
  - fix definition of absolute majority - right now the definition says that
7 is the absolute majority of 15.
  - resignation methods
  - ability to "downgrade" status from participating member to advisory
member
  - clarification of 3.5.5

- meeeting with WG3 to discuss TMQL and other topic maps issues

- discussion of XTM/RDF work

- discussion of future development for XTM - templates, etc.

A proposed agenda will be distributed before the meeting.  Please submit
agenda items for consideration to myself, Steve Pepper and Graham Moore.

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