Thanks Tom, Hi Everyone,
I was just about to send out another reminder about today's meeting
and decided to let this reply do double duty.
Just to let you know what my personal agenda is going forward. This
time of year the holidays come galloping into our lives and we get
caught up in the annual syndrome of the northern hemisphere, e.g.
party/visit/socialize through New Year's and fall into hangover
hibernation until spring. Of course this year we get the extra added
incentive of a sour economy from which escaping into our regular
revelry is a welcome distraction, and those of us not sufficiently
distracted by that have the transition to the next administration to
keep us occupied. Regardless we have our yearly perfect productivity
storm.
However, for us, provided I can manage to stay in OASIS now that
EDXL-RM and EDXL-HAVE have achieved Approval as Standards, I'd like
to make some quiet progress on EDXL-RIM, so I'm going to suggest we
move to weekly meetings after the holidays, suspend the need for
quorum to get regular work done, and shoot for getting our first
workproducts into first Public Review Drafts by spring.
I made workproducts and drafts plural so that we can break our
projects up into chunks individuals can take on for the purpose of
developing first drafts and then first Public Review Drafts, such as
EDXL-DE Principles, EDXL-DE scenario samples, with one each for CAP,
EDXL-RM and EDXL-HAVE and EDXL Methodologies (e.g. typing practices,
DOMs, ValueListURNs, Keywords).
Since none of these needs to be large, and certainly should not start
that way, we can start with outlines that the SC can discuss and
adopt before the actual writing starts. Hopefully, no one need face a
Task-Too-Big.
Lastly, I would suggest that these initial workproducts ought to be
concrete not abstract, but can then provide us with a set of
documents based in concrete methods, techniques and examples from our
existing standards from which we can synthesize abstract information
models in a systematic process, rather than the other way around.
Cheers,
Rex
>Rex,
>I've got a LMCO meeting scheduled for today and will not be on the RIM call.
>Regards,
>Tom
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