New TC Roster Management Tools- comments please

Chairs,

 

We know how difficult the current process for managing your TC roster
has been for you, especially in light of the process for Primary Contact
Approval of TC Members.  The
following describes how this process is proposed to change.  I’d like your feedback on this, so we
can tweak this process to best serve you and the TC Process.

 

Design parameters of this tool:

- Reduce the need for manual roster management by Chairs and
Secretaries

- Make the “Join this TC” process easier for everyone

- Automatically add approved members to the roster

- Protect unapproved participants from being inadvertently
misinterpreted as approved members

- Serve as framework for future roster management automation

 

This new tool is web based, as opposed to the old email permissions
process, and is as easy as 1-2-3!. 

 

 
When joining, the
     applicant will see the new Join Page (2 screen shots below).  The system will send an email to the
     applicant’s organization Primary Contact (or the applicant
     themselves, in case of Individual and Associate members) and direct them
     to a web interface where they can approve their employees. (Requests to join as an Observer are
     automatically approved and the Primary Contact is sent a notification
     email.) 

 

 
The Primary Contact
     (or Individual member) will use the web interface to confirm the TC
     Membership. 

 

The approved applicant’s name is automatically added to your TC
roster—in the right role (Observer or Member).

 

With this new tool, you will not be required to track and respond to
emails from Primary Contacts or manually transition approved applicants to TC
Members.  This will be
especially helpful when launching a new TC. 
You will no longer need to worry about Applicants and Prospective members!

 

When introduced, later in March, this tool will only manage how OASIS
participants join a TC.  The
next version will allow for TC Members to modify their ongoing role in the TC.  We expect Version 2, next quarter.

 

Please send your comments on this new tool, suggestions for revisions
etc. to 

 

Thank you for your feedback and your patience as we improve the tools
available to you.

Scott McGrath

Director of Member Services

 

Tel +1 978-667-5115 x202 

Fax +1 978-667-5114



 

Plan on attending:

OASIS Symposium: The Meaning of Interoperability, 

9-12 May, San Francisco

http://www.oasis-open.org/events/symposium_2006/