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Fwd: Re: [dita] Fwd: Please Vote for XMILE System Dynamics

From: Kristen Eberlein
To: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2015 20:49:00 -0000

Best, Kris Kristen James Eberlein Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting www.eberleinconsulting.com +1 919 682-2290; kriseberlein (skype) -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: [dita] Fwd: Please Vote for XMILE System Dynamics Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2015 09:45:09 -0800 From: Tom Magliery <[email protected]> To: Kristen James Eberlein <[email protected]> , DITA TC <[email protected]> That would be a very nice-to-have for a big last push for votes. Whenever I wax grandiose about DITA, one of the points I make (clumsily, usually) is that it makes good on the big promises of XML reuse, single-sourcing, interoperability that were possible but still expensive and a lot more work to achieve. mag On Mon, 7 Dec 2015 11:11:29 -0600 Kristen James Eberlein <[email protected]> wrote: > Anybody want to write a similarly compelling >e-mail for DITA? > > > > Best, > Kris > > Kristen James Eberlein > Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee > Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting > www.eberleinconsulting.com > +1 919 682-2290; kriseberlein (skype) > > > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: > Please Vote for XMILE System Dynamics > Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 >11:16:30 -0500 From: > Steven Adler <[email protected]> > To: OASIS <> > > > > Dear OASIS, > > In the 1950's, an MIT Professor named Jay Forrester, created >a simple icon-based vocabulary for describing how policy >effects complex ecosystems. He called it System Dynamics, and >in the decades since System Dynamics has helped launch the > environmental movement and urban planning in the late 1960's, > business strategy, resource planning, and so much more. >Systems Thinking inspired Donna Meadows to write the landmark >book, Limits to Growth, in 1972, which was the first to >predict that unrestrained industrial production and >population growth would deplete natural resources, destroy >the environment, and limit human potential. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth > > Some of you may have studied System Dynamics in business >school. Many of you may use Systems Thinking without ever >realizing where the ideas came from. That was true for me >until 2011, when an IBM colleague introduced me to a Smarter >Cities Simulation we built for the City of Portland. What I >saw there was an incredibly complex network of formulas, >interactions, and feedback loops that mapped the impact of >policies in one area of city administration to 12 others. It >was so fascinating and yet so incredibly remote for the >average person to understand. When I dived down deep and >interviewed the model designers, I discovered a nuanced world >of System Dynamics model development that was far more Art >than Science. > > That's why I sponsored the XMILE System Dynamics Technical > Committee at OASIS; to transform a highly specialized cottage > industry into a repeatable, and auditable language of Math >and Computer Science that everyone can learn to read and >write and use and reuse. Over the past three years a small >team of devoted System Dynamics professionals have worked >with OASIS and our partners in the System Dynamics Society to >create XMILE, which stands before you today ready for OASIS >standards consideration. > > On behalf of IBM and everyone that has worked to create an > industry standard that can transform the world with >ubiquitous Systems Thinking, I urge you to please vote YES >for XMILE before December 14th. > The member ballot to consider approving XML > Interchange Language for System Dynamics (XMILE) Version >1.0 as an OASIS Standard has been set up > > The ballot closes 14 December 2015 at 23:59 UTC. You can > access the ballot at: > > Internal link: > https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/voting/ballot.php?id=2891 > > Publicly visible link: > https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ballot.php?id=2891 > > Thank you. > > Best Regards, > > Steve > > Motto: Do First, Think, Do it Again > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that > generates this mail. Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: > https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php >