OASIS election

Related link: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200501/msg00014.html

The standards body OASIS is having an election, closing Feb 11 2005, for a new member of the Board of Directors.

If you can vote (only OASIS sponsor and contributor members can vote), I recommend you vote for the candidate who is not representing the concerns of a particular commercial organization. I am not sure whether it is good manners to tout the name in public (I am not a member of OASIS, but I work sometimes for companies that are), but I suppose the initials BG (or RG) will be helpful :-)

Not that I am against commercial organizations, far from it, but the strength of standards bodies comes from having buy-in from both large US companies and from people with larger affilliations: academia, government, the larger international community. With users rather than customers.

I have known and admired BG (or RG) for several years. His enthusiasm is matched by his knowledge. He is a world leader in figuring out Document Engineering. It is surprisingly important to have user-side influence at director level for standards bodies.