XTM CHARTER AND BY-LAWS Be it resolved: The following people: **** (***org), **** (***org), **** (***org), **** (***org), **** (***org), form the XML Topic...
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Nikita Ogievetsky
nogievet@...
Mar 2, 2000 2:18 pm
... I suggest using XSLT Actually I build a couple of XTM - driven websites. Please see http://www.furylandscaping.com/fury.asp It still requires some work,...
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Michel Biezunski
mb@...
Mar 3, 2000 5:40 am
The minutes of the San Jose meeting of Feb 29 / Mar 1, 2000 and the draft charter have been posted on the xtm-wg egroups. Steve Newcomb and Michel Biezunski....
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Daniel L. Koger
dkoger@...
Mar 7, 2000 6:14 pm
Is there to be a teleconference this week? (second week of March) Has the connection information been arranged? Thanks, Daniel L. Koger...
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Steven R. Newcomb
srn@...
Mar 7, 2000 10:13 pm
... Not as far as I know. We're not quite up and running yet. There is a chicken-and-egg problem. Sponsors (i.e., funds for operating the conference calls,...
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Sam Hunting
sam_hunting@...
Mar 7, 2000 11:02 pm
... These are the only questions I have. Looks good to me! 1. and throughout: Lowercase "O" in "TopicMaps.Org", or do whatever is needed to make the...
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Steven R. Newcomb
srn@...
Mar 7, 2000 11:54 pm
[Sam Hunting:] ... I was baffled about how to capitalize this new name when I made this change to the charter draft. I don't think capitalization makes any ...
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dkoger@...
Mar 8, 2000 12:57 am
I vote for TOPICMAPS.ORG Even though it is huge in proportional font, I just like the all caps look. No it does not make a difference for navigation. XTM...
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eGroups.com Calendar
dkoger@...
Mar 8, 2000 1:03 am
Dinner at the Kirkland Roaster. We will meet at BEST at 6:15 on Friday and car pool down from here. I have set up a dinner engagement to let you know what I am...
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dkoger@...
Mar 8, 2000 1:04 am
Wrong e-Group. I apologize...
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Patrick Durusau
pdurusau@...
Mar 8, 2000 1:44 pm
Steve and fellow PM's! Subject to Sam Hunting's suggestions on wording in the charter (Tue, 7 Mar 2000 14:59:43 -0800 (PST)) I am ready to approve the charter...
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Murray Altheim
altheim@...
Mar 8, 2000 4:45 pm
I have one concern about the charter and would like clarification: if we are not able to gain the proper ratio of technology vs. content companies represented...
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Daniel Koger
dkoger@...
Mar 8, 2000 4:57 pm
Typical it means that we cannot add a technology company to the group until we have added a balance of content companies. This does not mean we can't work, it...
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David Dodds
ddodds@...
Mar 8, 2000 7:51 pm
I have stated, for the record, that I am very interested in doing XML TM work, including development of implementation. Open Text has already started doing...
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Sam Hunting
sam_hunting@...
Mar 8, 2000 8:19 pm
... I like this best and I vote for it. Anyone who really cares will format it in small caps anyhow (as they should be doing for acronyms as a matter of...
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Steven R. Newcomb
srn@...
Mar 9, 2000 12:43 am
[Sam Hunting:] ... Oops, I lied. My reading of the draft charter is that it already says that everybody sends all their votes to everybody, and that the vote ...
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Steven R. Newcomb
srn@...
Mar 9, 2000 12:59 am
[Murray Altheim:] ... That was not the intent, no. ... That was not the intent, no. In the passage below, the first few words ("When technology-oriented ...
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Hans Holger Rath
hhr@...
Mar 9, 2000 1:45 pm
Dear TopicMaps.Org members, As many of you might know STEP is one of Europe's leading companies in the Topic Maps arena and wants to become a Participating...
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Patrick Durusau
pdurusau@...
Mar 9, 2000 3:05 pm
Holger, Speaking strictly for myself and not for the topicmaps.org group, any of its members or my sponsoring organization! (Sorry for the disclaimer but the...
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Steven R. Newcomb
srn@...
Mar 9, 2000 4:31 pm
... Yes. ... Speaking as one occasional paranoid to another, let me urge you to control your paranoia. (Anyway, if you were *really* paranoid, Holger, you...
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Sam Hunting
sam_hunting@...
Mar 9, 2000 5:56 pm
[ patrick writes] ... Ditto; ditto. ... For me, this is so (a) because I too am paranoid (We need a "Proud paranoids for Topic Maps" bumper sticker); (b) I've...
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Sam Hunting
sam_hunting@...
Mar 9, 2000 6:07 pm
(Most of my thoughts on this... topic... Why is there no XTM email?... are in a response to Patrick.) [steve writes] ... Works for me. [hans writes] ... [steve...
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Michel Biezunski
mb@...
Mar 9, 2000 6:58 pm
Yesterday, Dianne Kennedy and I had a meeting with Cecilia Preston, who is involved in the ISOC (Internet Society) family of standards, of which IETF is a...
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Murray Altheim
altheim@...
Mar 9, 2000 7:18 pm
... For those who have participated in past IETF activities, there's (as I suppose in any organizational/functional structure) pros and cons to the IETF....
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Patrick Durusau
pdurusau@...
Mar 9, 2000 7:43 pm
Sam, {Sam Hunting wrote:} ... (a) I guess put me down for at least 2 (one for each personality) ;-), (b) I practiced law for ten years but can still function...
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Steven R. Newcomb
srn@...
Mar 9, 2000 8:57 pm
[Sam Hunting:] ... I'd like to do that, but not at the cost of setting a precedent that would be procedurally indefensible. What would we say to others who ...
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Didier PH Martin
martind@...
Mar 9, 2000 9:00 pm
Hi, [steve writes] ... Steve, BE TEMPERATE!!!!! -- much as I agree with the logic. It wasn't clear to me either how to become a founding member. Didier...
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Sam Hunting
sam_hunting@...
Mar 9, 2000 9:20 pm
... I hate to say this, but isn't this too weak? Shouldn't it be "substantial, written" contributions? I'll propose this if it won't throw a monkey-wrench into...
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Steven R. Newcomb
srn@...
Mar 9, 2000 9:36 pm
... Thanks for your interest. You're probably too late for charter membership, even though the charter isn't quite adopted yet. Right now, all the relevant ...
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Steven R. Newcomb
srn@...
Mar 9, 2000 11:00 pm
... Oops. I didn't mean to suggest that Participating Membership isn't available to you. It is! This is an open activity. -Steve -- Steven R. Newcomb,...
