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Fwd: Re: What's the record for the highest vote on an OASIS standard?

From: Kristen Eberlein <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 17:56:00 -0000

And VMware has voted, bring the total to 77. Best, Kris Kristen James Eberlein Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting www.eberleinconsulting.com +1 919 682-2290; kriseberlein (skype) On 12/16/2015 11:41 AM, Tom Magliery wrote: The newest 4 votes (76 total now): Cryptsoft Pty Ltd. (JoAnn) Emerson (Tom) Fujitsu (Tom) Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (Scott) In case anyone is interested here is the message that I sent out to all of my contacts who had not voted between about 5-6pm yesterday (PST). This is one of the few where I knew the company had a connection to DITA. It has one (obvious) short, extra paragraph. Otherwise the only thing I varied was the salutation. ------------------------- Subject: Last chance to vote for DITA 1.3 Dear Winston, Time is running out on the ballot for DITA 1.3! Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is already a highly successful schema for structured authoring in XML. DITA was originally developed by IBM primarily for technical documentation, but in the years since its creation as a standard under the OASIS umbrella, its adaptability (the "information typing" part of its name) has made it easy for anyone to adopt and use. Now DITA is widespread in industries as diverse as medical devices, government, semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, software, insurance, telecommunications, healthcare, and human resources. DITA 1.3 marks the culmination of an effort to "finish" the 1.x version of the specification, rounding out a set of features that complete the original vision. With these additions, DITA is certain to be the go-to standard for structured authoring in XML for years to come. I know that VMware is already benefiting directly from using DITA for technical documentation. On behalf of the entire OASIS DITA Technical Committee, we certainly would appreciate your vote by this Thursday (11:59pm UTC, 6:59pm EST, 3:59pm PST): https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/voting/ballot.php?id=2892 Sincerely, Tom Magliery Secretary, OASIS DITA Technical Committee XML Technology Specialist, JustSystems Canada, Inc. (makers of XMetaL) [email protected] +1-778-327-6550 ------------------------- On Wed, 16 Dec 2015 10:54:56 -0500 Kristen James Eberlein <[email protected]> wrote: -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: What's the record for the highest vote on an OASIS standard? Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 16:23:47 -0500 From: Paul Knight <[email protected]> To: Kristen James Eberlein <[email protected]> CC: Chet Ensign <[email protected]>, Scott McGrath <[email protected]> Hi Kris, Well, your question sent us to the record books stretching back to 2003... and the winner was: (music) UBL v1.0 with 118 votes from 346 Members, or 34.104%, on Sun, 31 Oct 2004 second was: UBL v2.0 with 116 votes from 341 Members, or 34.018%, on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 I have to say UBL is quite an outlier, and the highest vote-getter recently has been OData v4.0 with 79 out of 300, or 26%, in Feb. 2014. Hope that gets the competitive juices flowing - bring out the voters! Best regards, Paul On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 7:55 AM, Kristen James Eberlein <[email protected]> wrote: Competitive members of the DITA TC want to know :) -- Best, Kris Kristen James Eberlein Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting www.eberleinconsulting.com +1 919 682-2290; kriseberlein (skype) -- Paul Knight - Tel: +1 781-883-1783 OASIS - Advancing open standards for the information society - Document Process Analyst Identity Ecosystem Steering Group - Framework Management Office --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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