Welcome to OASIS News, a bi-weekly update of announcements, accomplishments,
and activities for the international open standards consortium.

In this issue:
* Voting begins on DITA 1.1
* Annual OASIS event to be held in CA's historic English manor
* Discussion list opens on e-government
* Public review begins for SAML 2.0 Errata
* Important dates
* Upcoming events

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Voting begins on DITA 1.1

The Consortium has issued a Call for Vote to all member organizations to
determine if DITA version 1.1 should be approved as an OASIS Standard. DITA is
a document creation and management specification that builds content reuse into
the authoring process. Version 1.0 was approved as an OASIS Standard in June
2005. Members who wish to discuss the ballot for 1.1 may do so through the
member-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org mailing list. The ballot will remain open
until 31 July.

http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200707/msg00007.html

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Annual OASIS event to be held in CA's historic English manor

This year's OASIS Open Standards Forum in Europe will be held near London at
the Ditton Manor, 29-30 Oct. Produced in partnership with the Butler Group, the
event will focus on "Enabling Transformational Government Through Web Services
and SOA." The 900-year-old Ditton Manor has housed such historic figures as
Cardinal Wolsey, Anne Boleyn, and Queen Mary I. Now serving as the European
headquarters for CA, the venue is a 15-minute taxi ride from Heathrow airport
or 20 minutes by train from London. OASIS members and non-members are invited
to attend this Forum, and sponsorship opportunities are available.

http://events.oasis-open.org/home/forum/2007/venue

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Discussion list opens on e-government

OASIS has created a new discussion list to explore ways to further the goals of
the OASIS e-government community. Subscribers to the list will discuss possible
new technical standards projects and the formation of a Member Section to
coordinate e-government activities. This discussion list may remain open for up
to 90 days. Anyone, including OASIS members and non-members, may subscribe in
order to discuss the merits of this proposal and potential next steps.

http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200707/msg00010.html

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Public review begins for SAML 2.0 Errata

The OASIS Security Services TC has approved the Security Assertion Markup
Language (SAML) version 2.0 Errata as a Committee Draft and submitted it for
public review. SAML provides a standard, XML-based framework for creating and
exchanging security information between online partners. The review ends 31
July.

http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200707/msg00009.html

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Important dates

18 Jul:
  Search Web Services TC holds first meeting
  http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/search-ws/

23 Jul:
  Digital Signature Services eXtended (DSS-X) TC holds first meeting
  http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200706/msg00012.html

31 Jul:
  DITA 1.1 OASIS Standard ballot closes
  http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200707/msg00007.html

  SAML 2.0 Errata public review ends
  http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200707/msg00009.html

26 Aug:
  Customer Information Quality (CIQ) 3.0 public review ends
  http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200706/msg00013.html

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Upcoming events  

22-27 Jul
XML Summer School 2007
Oxford, United Kingdom
http://www.csw.co.uk/events.asp#ss07

23-27 Jul
GeoWeb 2007
Vancouver, British Columbia
http://www.geoweb.org/index.asp

1-3 Aug
Open Publish 2007
Sydney, Australia
http://www.openpublish.com.au/index.html

7-10 Aug
Extreme Markup Languages
Montreal, Canada
http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/

Sept 10-11
European EXPP Summit
London, UK
http://www.expp-summit.com/

11-13 Sept
Biometric Consortium Conference  
Baltimore, MD     
http://www.biometrics.org/bc2007/index.htm

19-21 Sept
OpenOffice.org Conference (OOoCon 2007)
Barcelona, Spain  
http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2007/

All events:  http://www.oasis-open.org/events/calendar.php

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**Membership Tip #41**

Read the minutes from the latest OASIS Board of Directors meeting
http://www.oasis-open.org/private/bod_minutes.php

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