Congratulations on the UBL OASIS Standard

["Patrick Gannon" <patrick.gannon@oasis-open.org>]

OASIS UBL TC Members,

Congratulations on the approval of UBL as an OASIS Standard. On behalf of
the OASIS Board and staff, I applaud you all for your hard work and thank
you for contributing to the success of global open standards.

Now that UBL has been ratified by the OASIS membership at-large, advancing
its adoption becomes a high priority. I encourage you to take advantage of
all OASIS has to offer to assist you in this goal: the UBL-dev list, OASIS
InterOp demonstrations, conference presentations, OASIS Open Standards Days,
implementations listings in the OASIS Standards registry, publicity through
OASIS News, XML.org, Cover Pages, and other media, educational outreach,
additional translations of UBL into other languages, etc. There is also a
range of new adoption services under development.  OASIS staff will be happy
to join a future TC call at your convenience to discuss all the options
available to you at this important juncture.

You may also want to revisit the formation of a sub-committee to advance the
adoption of UBL. By enlisting the active support of marketing experts or UBL
implementation specialists within software companies along with interested
parties from end-user organizations, an OASIS UBL Adoption Sub-Committee
could work to create best-practice implementation guidelines and other
promotional activities. With input from participants from specific
industries, including the government sector, this work could also include
the creation of functional profiles detailing UBL OASIS Standard use in
specific industry scenarios.

Please work directly with your OASIS staff contact, Jamie Clark, to discuss
the various options for future activities or contact me directly if there's
any way I can be of assistance. We're also interested in your suggestions
for other organizations that would benefit from joining OASIS to participate
in UBL adoption activities or advancing UBL development.

Again, please accept my congratulations on a monumental job well done. I
look forward to recognizing your accomplishments in person at the OASIS
Annual General Members meeting in New Orleans in April.

Best regards,

Patrick Gannon
President & CEO
OASIS
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