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At 12:49 PM 3/27/01 -0500, Ann Navarro wrote: >At 12:12 PM 3/27/01, Ronald Bourret wrote: > >(b) have enough time to contribute at the level of a WG member, > >(c) have enough money to attend (flight, hotel, etc.) the WG meetings. > >Ok, but if you don't have (b) and (c) available, how do you expect to be >able to participate? At what level? I think OASIS technical committees require one phone call a month, and the rest can be electronic. XSchema/DDML (which Ron and I worked on) was built entirely on electronic discussion. I didn't meet my fellow editors (or even hear their voices) until well after the spec went to the W3C. Although I'm aware that XSchema/DDML wasn't a roaring success commercially, I think it (and SAX, and now RDDL) demonstrate that it's possible to proceed in a variety of lower-impact ways. XSchema also benefited substantially from late input from a number of people who hadn't participated earlier in the process. Full-time participation wasn't necessary to make critical contributions. Simon St.Laurent - Associate Editor, O'Reilly and Associates XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. XHTML: Migrating Toward XML http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books
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