Symposium

Dear EM-TC Members,

The time is fast approaching for our annual OASIS Symposium.  I hope
by now you all have your reservations made and are looking forward to a
great week in San Diego.  Some logistical information and an agenda
for our face-to-face meeting are provided below for your review. 

Logistics:  Be sure that you have designated that you will
attend the EM-TC Face to Face meetings Wed, Thurs and Fri.  There is
no charge for this but they need to know.  OASIS is providing the
meeting space, wireless Internet, breaks with coffee in the morning and
soft drinks in the afternoon, and a speaker phone.  Be sure and
thank the OASIS staff for this.  They have listened to our needs and
responded.  Lunch is not a part of the package, however, we can
order a lunch and have it available so as to maximize our time
together.  I'll let you know the details about the lunch order for
Wed/Thurs as well as the room numbers for our activities as soon as I
know.  Please respond to this email with which
days you will be at the symposium and which F2F meetings you will
attend.

Agenda:

Sunday, April 15.  Be sure and check out the offerings
for courses on this day.  Patti and Michelle are planning to take
Mary McRae's Editors class which is sure to be helpful to the whole
TC.  Most folks will be arriving this day.

Monday, April 16.  Plan to attend the Symposium
Sessions.  Our own Michelle Raymond will be giving a presentation on
the Management Track entitled:  Continuing through Emergency: 
eBiz/eGov Continuity and Contingency Functioning throughout Emergency
Incidents.  If you will be there, be sure and provide Michelle with
your cell phone number prior to her presentation so that it will activate
during her demonstration.  Let's all be there to support
Michelle.  The first part of the TC lightning rounds will be at
5:00.  I am not sure which one our TC will be in, but at the
appropriate time, I will give the 3-4 minute overview of what our TC has
done in the past year.  Monday evening from 6-7 there is a light
reception.  We will gather there and can convene for an informal
session that evening.  

Tuesday, April 17.  Plan to attend the Symposium
Sessions.  The second day of TC lightning rounds is at 4:00 and the
main reception will be that evening at 6:30.

Wednesday, April 18.  Plan to attend the all day Face to Face
meeting of the EM-TC.  This day, the meeting will last from 8am-8pm
with morning, lunch, afternoon and dinner breaks.  The evening
session will be used as needed to accomplish any objectives missed during
the day or to relax, review the notes for the day and prepare for the
next.

Elysa - Welcome/introductions/logistics/etc - 30 mins

Mary McRae (OASIS Staff) - Process, documentation, OASIS tools
Q&A - 30 mins

Bill Kalin - DM program overview - 20 mins, 10 mins Q&A

David Lamensdorf, Welcome from the new chair of the EIC with a few
comments about his vision for the EIC - 20, 10 mins Q&A mins

Break

Dave Ellis IF-SC Topics - 2 hrs

Lunch

RIM requirements review - 2 hours

RIM the rest of the afternoon with a break 

Evening session as needed
Thursday, April 19.  Plan to attend the all day Face to
Face meeting of the EM-TC.  This day, the meeting will last from
8am-8pm with morning, lunch, afternoon and dinner breaks.  The
evening session will be used as needed to accomplish any objectives
missed during the day or to relax, review the notes for the day and
prepare for the next.

Josh Shows - Adoption SC discussion - 2 hours

Break

Lee Tincher - Registries, etc. - 2 hours

Lunch

HAVE - Complete/review/accept response to comments

Break

Preparation for RM comment period

Topics for final resolution/voting 

Evening session as needed
Friday, April 20.  We have the room reserved for this
morning.  However, attendance will probably be light as many will be
traveling back.  This morning will be used for overflow
topics.

I have also invited members of OASIS Staff to join us sometime during the
2-day period; Jamie Clark to discuss rights issues that arise due to
similar implementations being developed to support interop standards and
Scott McGrath to talk about the EI member section.

We have arranged for RIM, HAVE and RM discussions as well as voting to go
on in the afternoons to accommodate our friends in Australia.  I
hope you guys can make it.  We will have a conference phone and
dial-in information will be provided prior to the meeting on the
site.

Looking forward to seeing you all in San Diego!

Regards,

Elysa Jones, Chair

OASIS EM-TC

Engineering Program Manager

Warning Systems, Inc.

256-880-8702 x102

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