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OASIS Welcomes Individual Members with Special Offer
Boston, MA, USA, July 22, 1999-Companies, individuals
and industry associations involved in XML are invited
to participate in the sixth annual OASIS Summer Workshop.
This year, Workshop highlights will include sessions
dedicated to the Consortium's Registry and Repository
and XML Conformance Technical Committees.
"The OASIS Summer Workshop will provide an arena
for major XML users and vendors to interface on cutting-edge
technical work," said Mary McRae (DMSi), chief
marketing officer of OASIS. "The goal is to map
strategies and execute deliverables that insure true
XML interoperability."
In addition to OASIS committee working sessions, the
OASIS Board of Directors will conduct their quarterly
meeting, interface with the Board of Directors of CGM
Open, an OASIS affiliate organization, and meet with
the XML.org Steering Committee. The recently formed
XML.org Steering Committee, comprised of representatives
from XML.org sponsoring organizations including Commerce
One, DataChannel, Documentum, GCA, IBM, Oracle, SAP,
SoftQuad and Sun Microsystems, will hold their second
strategy meeting during which they will finalize policy
regarding allowed schema languages for schema submissions
for XML.org.
Registrations are now being accepted for the three-day
meeting that will address future directions for the
registry and repository capabilities of XML.org, the
XML industry portal, and other OASIS technical projects.
The members-only event, which will be held August 11-13
in Montreal, Canada, is expected to attract XML users
and vendors from around the world.
For the first time ever, the OASIS Summer Workshop
is open to individuals, who are now able to join the
consortium as part of recently restructured membership.
As a special incentive, the OASIS Summer Workshop's
150 USD meeting fee will be waived for Individuals who
join OASIS for 250 USD before 10 August.
"Any company or individual involved with XML
-- or anyone who plans to become involved -- should
be represented at this event," said Laura Walker,
executive director of OASIS. "Decisions will be
made here that will affect the future direction of the
industry."
Membership in OASIS is open to any organization or individual
interested in contributing to the work of the Consortium.
For more information about membership in OASIS, visit
http://www.oasis-open.org/members.htm. Information on
the OASIS Summer Workshop is provided on http://www.oasis-open.org/forms/summerworkshop.htm.
OASIS (www.oasis-open.org) is a non-profit, international
consortium dedicated solely to product-independent data
and content interchange. Focusing on product interoperability,
OASIS embraces the complete spectrum of structured information
standards including XML, SGML and CGM. OASIS operates
XML.org (www.xml.org), the first global XML industry
portal featuring the XML Registry and Repository that
offers automated public access to XML schemas for electronic
commerce, business-to-business transactions, and tools
and application interoperability. OASIS sponsors include
Adobe Systems, AND-USA, Arbortext, Bentley Systems,
Chrystal Software, Compaq, DataChannel, DMSi, Documentum,
Dun & Bradstreet, Enigma, GCA, IBM, Inso, InterCAP,
Interleaf, Interwoven, ISOGEN, ITEDO, Keyfile, Larson
Software, Microsoft, NextPage, NIST, Object Design,
POET Software, Reed Technology, Reuters, Sabre, SoftQuad,
Software AG, STEP, Sun Microsystems, Synthbank, System
Development, Wavo, Xerox, XyEnterprise and Zeh Graphics
Systems.
For more information:
Carol Geyer
Program Manager
OASIS
mailto:geyer@oasis-open.org
+1.412.963-1479
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