Voters,
Below is a message from Board of Directors
candidate Ron Lake. He asks that you consider this message in determining your
vote in the Board of Directors Special Election, which closes Friday 11
February. Anyone who has already cast their vote can change their vote
until the ballot closes.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Lake
[mailto:rlake@galdosinc.com]
- I represent a smaller company. This means
we have a different viewpoint (often) and can more readily represent the
interests of the many smaller companies which are important members of
OASIS.
- I come from the geo-spatial world. This is
important since the geo-spatial world has actively embraced, utilized and
pushed (in some cases to the breaking point) OASIS specifications
including ebRIM, SAML, XACML, BPEL and UDDI. Geo-spatial
specifications are also important for OASIS specifications such as CAP,
and I anticipate many other application related specifications in the
future.
- I have been a life long leader in the standards
world. I received the OGC Gardells gold medal for the creation of
GML (Geography Markup Language) which involved not only technical
innovation but also a great deal of horse trading, compromise and
co-operation. I have learned how to lead not only by action, but
also by allowing others to contribute and do their thing.
- I understand the need for standards bodies to
work with one another - to build on one another's standards - to build a
network of specifications that support the IT community of the
future. I can help OASIS, W3C, IETF, OGC work better together.
- I understand specifications at the technical
level and have been instrumental in seeing standards implemented in
practice. Our organization is small and hence the link between
standards and real world implementation is short and sometimes sweet.
- I offer an international perspective that it is
sensitive to the key role of the US IT industry in global
information systems.
- OASIS is already well served by people with
expertise in intellectual property law and regulations.
- I have more than thirty years experience in
advanced information systems covering a wide range of application topics
including simulation, real time control, embedded systems, data
acquisition, data base and transactional systems, geographic information
systems, imaging systems, business and technical graphics, automated code
generation, and artifical intelligence.
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