Minutes of Pacific UBL TC call 19 February 2014 01:00UTC

[Tim McGrath <tim.mcgrath@documentengineeringservices.com>]

MINUTES OF PACIFIC UBL TC TELECONFERENCE WEDNESDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2014 01:00UTC

ATTENDANCE

  Tim McGrath (convener)
  Ole Madsen


STANDING ITEMS

  Additions to the calendar:
none

 Review of Atlantic call minutes
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/201401/msg00008.html

Accepted

 Review of Pacific call minutes     
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/201401/msg00009.html

Accepted

  Membership status review
     https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/tc-process#membership
     https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/membership.php?wg_abbrev=ubl
     https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/ubl/members/roster.php?num_items=80

     - voting status is determined by the following:
       - existing voting members must not miss two consecutive meetings to
         maintain voting status
       - non-voting members must attend two consecutive meetings to obtain
         voting status
     - current voting member list (alphabetical):
       - Oriol Bausa
       - Kenneth Bengtsson
       - Jon Bosak (secretary)
       - Kees Duvekot
       - G. Ken Holman (co-chair)
       - Ole Madsen
       - Tim McGrath (co-chair)
       - Andy Schoka (TSC chair)
     - what can we do to recruit more volunteers to the TC to share
       in the work?


UBL 2.1 Status

 - member review of the proposed submission of UBL 2.1 to ISO/IEC JTC 1
   completed.
 - We expect to receive the explanatory note this week. 
- a slide show explaining the purpose of this activity is available at:
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=51875&wg_abbrev=ubl


UBL TC next steps

     - what promotional issues need to be addressed?
    - UBL 2 is an organic thing that can be grown

    - what do we do for implementation support?
    - should we write a companion document of how to use the specification?
    - industry-specific documentation?
    - make it easier to find what is relevant without changing the actual
      specification

    - what about updating the International Data Dictionary?
      - who can we find to help with this?

    - how about another UBL International conference in order to
      promote the release of UBL 2.1?  Can anyone host this conference?
      http://ublconference.com or http://ublconference.org
      - perhaps an event in North America and in Europe in Q1/2'2014
       - Washington DC, Burlington MA ?
	- Brussels or Barcelona?
       - Beijing June 2014?   
    - how about a Twitter feed of UBL adoption and announcements

  - what subject matter issues need to be addressed?
    - communications with outsourcing warehouses
      - which new process flows need existing or new documents?
      - Kees solicited interest from others, such as perhaps
        members of the TSC since outsourced warehouses are of
        interest to freight and transportation companies
    - more transportation co-ordination issues
    - communications with transportation regulatory organizations

  - what technical issues need to be addressed?
    - are any schema changes needed?
    - at the least we need to publish the NDR as soon as possible
  - what educational materials need to be made available?
    - how about YouTube videos regarding access to the UBL package?


TC CONCALL SCHEDULE

 Our regular UTC times are now shifted due to daylight savings time changes,
 but note that the local time on the clock is unchanged from before:

   Pacific call date/time:  Wednesdays 01:00UTC
   Atlantic call date/time: Wednesdays 15:00UTC

  (Note the Pacific call takes place Tuesday evenings west of the
   Atlantic Ocean)

 Next meetings:

 Propose February 26 2014 

  Will anyone be requesting a leave of absence in the near future?  For
  privacy reasons, this discussion will be kept off of the minutes.

  TC calendar:
  http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/calendar.php?wg_abbrev=ubl

  TC calendar iCal subscription link:
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup_feeds/ical/my_vcalendar.ics?token=fa658a7994a6cefb10c10be09e139af3&workgroup_id=50


OTHER BUSINESS

  None


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Regards 
Tim McGrath
tim.mcgrath@documentengineeringservices.com
Fremantle, Western Australia
http://www.documentengineeringservices.com