[legalxml-sc] Reminder: 3/11/2003 4-6pm EST Expanded OASIS LegalXMLSteering C ommittee

The OASIS LegalXML Steering Committee invites you to join us on an
expanded
conference call. As TC chairs or others in position of leadership we
want
you to be actively involved in direction setting and in the allocation
of
resources to support TC efforts.

The contact details are: Day/Date: Tuesday, March 11, 2003, Time of
call:
4pm to 6pm EDT, Conference Dial-in: 512-225-3050,Conference Guest Code:
84759#, Duration of the call: 2 hours, Leader's Phone Number:
937-865-1276

The agenda for this meeting has five items:

- Preparing for Steering Committee elections

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It has always been the intent of the Steering Committee that the people
doing the active work in creating standards have control of resources to
accomplish them. These resourses included the needed coordination point
between the technical committees, shared detailed technical committee
processes and financial resourses. The place to facilitate this is the
Steering Committee.

The steering committee will be a representative body made up of
Technical
Committee Representitives and At-large members. The members eligable to
vote
will be limited to those who have joined the Member Section. This is to
directly relate sending choices to the intent of the members that
support it
finacially from a portion of the OASIS dues.

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Technical Committee Representatives
One Steering Committee member shall be elected from each Technical
Committee. The current Steering Committee proposes that within 2 weeks
of
today's meeting all current Technical Committees post a notice of
election.
The notice shall request interested members to become candidates for the
Steering Committee and provide a statement on their background and
motivation for seeking membership. Within the following 2 weeks, the
candidates statements shall be posted with the notice of the voting
period
and procedure. The period shall begin 1 week later and run for 1 week.

If the chair of the Technical Committee believes that the Technical
Committee has not reached a level of organization to provide a
meaningful
election it should be stated. The election for that TC shall be defered.
During this period the TC shall appoint a member to serve as a
coordinating,
non-voting representive to the Steering Committee.

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At-large Representatives (Up to three)

After all the Technical Committee Elections have been completed or
defered,
the first meeting of the new steering committee will be set. The first
action will be to elect a chair from within it. A second urgent need
will be
to identify additional knowledge, skillset or time availablty the
committee
needs to be effective. If such a need is found an At-large election
shall be
held to fill that need.

A notice, with the number of seats and the needs identified by the
Technical
Committee representatives shall be posted. The notice shall request
interested members to become candidates for the steering committee and
provide a statement on their background and motivation for joining the
steering committee. Within the following 2 weeks, the candidates
statements
shall be posted with the notice of the voting period and procedure. The
period shall begin 1 week later and run for 1 week. Upon completion of
the
election the updated Steering Committee shall be seated.

- What can we as a community do to be more effective

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This session will be will try to identify ways that we can bring back
the
spark, interest and energy needed to accomplish the goals of OASIS
LegalXML.
We should also attempt to identify roadblocks hurting our effectiveness.

- Coordination between Technical Committees within OASIS LegalXML &
Beyond

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In light of the effectiveness question, how do we coordinate? How do we
share reusable parts of our standards. What efforts on this core are
underway(Justice Data Dictionary)?
How do we reuse processes and documentation(The efforts of Roger Winters
et.
al.)?

- OASIS LegalXML Funding and Effective Use of Funds

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This will be sent out later today.

- Questions and Issues from Attendies

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Please forward items to me at
 so that I can forward them to all of you.

Again, I thank you for your current Technical Committee efforts. I
encourage
your participation in this conferance call..

Regards,

Don

Donald L. Bergeron

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