Hello Dennis, I guess I can answer as I also happen to be one of the directors of the OASIS... :-)
2011/6/19 Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamil...@acm.org> > Since I am receiving reminders about my individual membership in OASIS, I > can answer that question: > > No. There is no specific enrollment period or fixed calendar of > memberships. Annual memberships are for the full year from the day a > membership application is accepted. > Yes indeed. The membership registration phase is rather simple, but the time to get the new member representative and/or the team acquainted with the various tools, intranet, etc. usually takes some time. > > Since you are talking about an institutional membership, there will need to > be an official who approves the participation of others on individual OASIS > Technical Committees. > > Also, there are IP-policy conditions that apply to membership and > contribution to each OASIS TC. TC members affiliated with TDF should not > have a conflict with requirements that they are subject to as a condition of > their employment elsewhere. > The relevant page is here: http://oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr In short, when it comes to ODF or CMIS the OASIS consortium requires anyone to leave its patents at the door and renounce any claim to royalty. I think TDF members will agree to it :) > > I also don't know how closely associated someone must be with the TDF to be > able to participate under the TDF membership in OASIS. If that is not clear > from the application information for organizations, I am sure there are > contacts who can answer any questions about that. > I would suggest that one should be a member of TDF/LibreOffice project. I would also suggest that if the interested person would like to contribute technical work to the OASIS TC(s) he/she should apply first to the ESC; if it's for other (such as the Adoption TC or a more general role) he/she should be appointed by the SC/Bod. That said, Dennis, am I to understand you'd be interested in contributing to the OASIS under the TDF umbrella? Best, Charles. > > - Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: drew [mailto:d...@baseanswers.com] > Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 11:24 > To: steering-discuss@documentfoundation.org > Subject: Re: [steering-discuss] Joining the OASIS Consortium > > On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 20:18 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Charles-H. Schulz wrote on 2011-06-18 16.50: > > > I think that if we go down that path we'll lose some valuable time > revoting > > > on it. The SC's mission ends when the BoD is elected and that is very > > > clear, but until then, if decisions have to be made we should not > refrain > > > from making them. (Although I understand the need not to rush anything > - but > > > joining the OASIS is not exactly a rushed decision). > > > > well, I have no problem with deciding, but still, decisions are not > > binding for the future BoD, so we should keep that in mind. :-) > > Hi, > > Just wondering, is there some membership window, a period of time each > year when new memberships are accepted at OASIS? Is that an issue here? > > Thanks > > Drew > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to > steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: > http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/steering-discuss/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to > steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: > http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/steering-discuss/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/steering-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
