OASIS News: 16 Apr 2013

Welcome to OASIS News, a biweekly update of announcements, accomplishments, and activities for the international open standards consortium.

In this issue:

* Members submit questions for Board candidates 

* OASIS Standard vote opens for TGF
* S-RAMP V1.0 public review begins
* Emergency MS extends deadline for StC nominations  
* OASIS workshop added to the EIC Conference Program 
* OASIS to join privacy panel at Forecast 2013

* Important dates

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Members submit questions for Board candidates 

In advance of the upcoming elections for OASIS Board of Directors, members are asked to suggest questions for candidates on issues regarding the management and direction of the Consortium. Staff will compile and summarize the questions and provide an anonymous, representative sample to all candidates. Their responses will be posted online. Questions must be received by 3 May.

https://www.oasis-open.org/board/election-process

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OASIS Standard vote opens for TGF

Balloting for the Transformational Government Framework (TGF) V1.0 is now underway and will close 25 Apr. TGF is a practical, “how to” standard for implementing an effective program of technology-enabled change at national, state or local government levels. The specification was developed by representatives of OASIS Foundational Sponsor, Microsoft, as well as Oracle, Belgian SPF Finances, and others. All organizational members of OASIS are encouraged to vote on TGF; those who wish to discuss the ballot may do so through .  

https://www.oasis-open.org/news/announcements/call-to-vote-on-oasis-standard-tgf-pattern-language-core-patterns-v1-0

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S-RAMP V1.0 public review begins 

The SOA Repository Artifact Model and Protocol (S-RAMP) defines a common data model for SOA repositories as well as an interaction protocol to facilitate the use of common tooling and sharing of data. This public review ends 11 May.

https://www.oasis-open.org/news/announcements/30-day-public-review-for-s-ramp-v1-0

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Emergency MS extends deadline for StC nominations 

The nomination period for the OASIS Emergency Interoperability (EI) Member Section (MS) Steering Committee has been extended to 29 Apr. Three seats are open for nominations. All EI MS participants are invited to nominate qualified candidates and/or consider serving on the Steering Committee.

https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/announce/201304/msg00000.html

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OASIS workshop added to the EIC Conference Program

Experts from both the OASIS PMRM and PbD-SE TCs come together at the upcoming European Identity Cloud Conference on 14 May to pass along a valuable analytic template that can jump-start the use case analysis critical to implementing ‘Privacy by Design’ within applications. The workshop is open to all conference attendees. 

http://www.id-conf.com/events/eic2013-oasis

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OASIS to join privacy panel at Forecast 2013

Dawn Jutla, chair of the PbD-SE TC and OASIS Board Director, will participate in a panel session at this ODCA event on cloud adoption. The conference will be held 17-18 Jun in San Francisco. 

http://www.opendatacenteralliance.org/forecast2013

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Important Dates 

23 Apr
CMIS public review ends
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201302/msg00017.html

23-24 Apr
CAP Implementation Workshop agenda available 
http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/amp/pwsp/CAP_2013_en.htm. 
25 Apr
OASIS Standard vote ends for TGF

https://www.oasis-open.org/news/announcements/call-to-vote-on-oasis-standard-tgf-pattern-language-core-patterns-v1-0

27 Apr
PLCS public review ends 
http://ow.ly/2vLMpc

29 Apr
Deadline for EI MSEmergency Steering Committee nominations close
 

3 May
Deadline for member questions to Board candidates
http://www.oasis-open.org/board/election-process/

11 May
S-RAMP V1.0 public review ends

https://www.oasis-open.org/news/announcements/30-day-public-review-for-s-ramp-v1-0

14 May
OASIS provides Keynote, Panels at European Identity Cloud Conference in Munich 

http://www.id-conf.com/sessions/1074

10-14 Jun
OASIS LegalXML member section to sponsor ICAIL 2013
http://icail2013.ittig.cnr.it/

18 Jun
Privacy panel session at Forecast 2013 

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