Did I miss the mails to set up the meeting to choose a new chair and get the spec moving? Shall we choose a date? I am happy to set up a doodle check for dates – but should this be face-to-face? Or is online good enough for this meeting?
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From: wemi@lists.oasis-open.org [mailto:wemi@lists.oasis-open.org] On Behalf Of Chet Ensign
Sent: 11 June 2013 16:15
To: Serge Huber
Cc: wemi
Subject: Re: [wemi] Re: Can we help you with the next steps for WEMI?
Hi Serge,
I agree re Adobe. We have heard nothing that suggests any dissatisfaction with WEMI or any of the other technical work they were doing.
Regarding electing a chair, it is a simple process. People can nominate themselves or others by sending email to the TC mailing list or by nominating themselves or another at a meeting. To elect a chair or two co-chairs, the group can simply meet, get the nominations, and vote for the Chair(s). If you only have one or two candidates, it is acceptable to simply ask for objections to unanimous approval and if there are none, declare the Chair(s) elected. Technically, per the TC Process, the Chairs require a Full Majority Vote (that is, more than 50% of the voting members regardless of how many are actually attending). But in practice, it is generally unanimous.
Someone from the TC can volunteer to organize and run the meeting through the election. Or if you all would prefer, I'm happy to run it for you.
I also agree with you that developing a 1.0 draft is the best way to make progress. Getting something on paper that you can all react to helps crystalize everyones' thinking and get to a Committee Spec Draft that you can get out for public review faster. And once that happens, you really know that you have something real coming together.
Best,
/chet
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 4:31 AM, Serge Huber <shuber@jahia.com> wrote:
Hello Chet,
Thank you for the clarification. It is indeed a shame to see Adobe out of this project, since I still think that they were quite interested in it.
I think that we will probably need to elect a new chair, if I understand well how this process works ? If so, how should we proceed, should people come forward themselves or can someone be proposed ?
I believe that in the last meeting we had we had brought up a really interesting use case for the "e-commerce" use case. Integration of a CRM, an ecommerce (catalog) and a WCM seems like a perfect "complex" use case that would definitely be a good illustration of the power of this standard. We should focus on quickly coming to a 1.0 draft so that we can keep the momentum.
Best regards,
Serge Huber.
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Chet Ensign <chet.ensign@oasis-open.org> wrote:
WEMI members,
Serge Huber has just reminded me that not everyone on the TC mailing list sees the announcements of members as they come and go.
To demystify then my email to you all - Adobe has opted not to renew their OASIS membership at the present time. That took effect Friday I think so all Adobe members active in TCs dropped from their respective rosters. The first ones that caught my eye were Cedric and Peeter being removed from WEMI.
I don't have any intelligence myself to suggest that there was anything other than budget involved - that is, no incipient dissatisfaction with what was going on in any of the TCs. They were active in a number of TCs.
That is the background to my offer to help. Hope I didn't cause too much confusion.
Best regards,
/chet
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Chet Ensign <chet.ensign@oasis-open.org> wrote:
Members of the WEMI TC,
I am writing you all right away to see if we on the OASIS staff can help you in any way.
We were saddened to see Adobe choose to leave OASIS and technically of course this leaves the WEMI TC without a Chair.
It also seems that the group has been struggling the last few months on deciding how to proceed with development of a specification.
Is there anything we can do to help the TC regain its footing and move forward? The first step of course is to elect a new Chair. I'm happy to help you get a meeting set up to do that if you like although you don't of course need me.
Beyond that, can we help you all with the dialog or with your decisions?
While we are sorry to see Adobe go, electing a new chair might also be an opportunity for you all to regroup and make progress again. I was excited by the work that WEMI set out to do when the TC launched; if I can help you continue, I would really like ot do so.
Please let Carol and me know if we can help in any way,
/chet
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