<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><b class="">---- May 2020 ----</b><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Greetings all! It’s been a heck of a month after our Q1 2020 meeting (we can’t properly call it the Reston meeting, can we?), and we’ve got updates for you. I hope this finds everyone doing as well as they can be.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">First off, we are again going purely virtual for Q2, to make it our second ever online meeting. We are not meeting in person in Orlando, but we are keeping our June 22-26 dates, so PLEASE save and protect those dates in your calendar. Contact your chairs for details, we’ll be working with them to keep things moving smoothly. The Q1 Meeting was a radical change for us, but our chairs (and members!) rose to the occasion and in partnership with our OMG staff made it yet another success, on extremely short notice.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Also in exciting news, for the Q2 2020 meeting we are waiving the registration fee entirely! Member representatives may attend this special meeting at no charge, so don’t miss this one-time chance to get your co-workers involved to see what the OMG is all about. Point your colleagues at <a href="https://www.omg.org/login/request/OMG" class="">https://www.omg.org/login/request/OMG</a> to get their OMG User ID, and then they can register more easily at https://www.omg.org/events/2020Q2/registration.htm <br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">You may notice that I’ve started using the terminology of Q1 2020 and Q2 2020 to refer to what we normally would have called “Reston” and “Orlando”. We’ve come to realize that this state of affairs we find ourselves in may linger longer than any of us would like, and we need to adjust. If you inspect the URLs we’re using on the OMG website to host event pages such as the one above, events will no longer be referred to by the hosting state (or country) and two digit year (fl-20), but instead by a four digit year, a Q, and a numeral 1-4 (2020Q2). We will adopt this moving forward, so there’s never guesswork, even after we resume physical meetings.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="">=======</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Next up, developments from the Q1 meeting. The Board of Directors approved several motions of note, including:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">...the following specifications entering into Finalization:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Metamodel Extension Facility (MEF)</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>IDL to C# Language Mapping</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Simple Electronic Notation for Sensor Reporting (SENSR)</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Command and Control Ingterface for Navigation (C2INav)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">...the following specification leaving finalization for publication as an adopted 1.0:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>MOF2RDF Mapping 1.0</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">...and new versions of existing specifications:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>CORBA 3.4</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>OARIS 1.1</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>ALMAS 1.1</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>DMN 1.3</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Congratulations to every member who contributed to the specifications making it to these milestones!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The Board also affirmed a new Code of Conduct that applies to all OMG supported efforts. Public declaration of a code of conduct is now accepted best practice for conferences, and OMG remains dedicated to staying up to date within our industries. You can find the Code and supporting materials at <a href="https://www.omg.org/codeofconduct" class="">https://www.omg.org/codeofconduct</a>, and we welcome you to read through them and provide feedback to improve our communities.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">=======</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Looking forward to our Q2 2020 Meeting in June, we have the following deadlines ahead of us:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">May 18:</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.omg.org/techprocess/meetings/schedule/UnifiedPOS_V2_Model__And_POS_Printer_API_RFP.html" class="">Unified POS v2</a> (Initial Submission)</div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"> <span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 163, 156);"> </span><a href="https://www.omg.org/techprocess/meetings/schedule/UnifiedPOS_Fiscal_API_2.0_RFP.html" class="">Unified POS Fiscal API v2</a> (Initial Submission)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">May 25:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(Four week deadline for Q2 2020 Meeting)</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.omg.org/techprocess/meetings/schedule/Cyber_Insurance_RFI.html" class="">Cyber Insurance RFI</a> (Responses)</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.omg.org/techprocess/meetings/schedule/PKF_RFI.html" class="">Product Knowledge Framework RFI</a> (Responses)</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.omg.org/techprocess/meetings/schedule/DDS_C_Sharp.html" class="">DDS C# API</a> (Initial Submission)<br class=""> <a href="https://www.omg.org/techprocess/meetings/schedule/UnifiedPOS_V2_Model__And_POS_Printer_API_RFP.html" class="">REST for CORBA</a> (Initial Submission)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">June 15:</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(65, 156, 255);"><u class="" style="color: rgb(65, 156, 255);">DDS C# API RFP</u> (Voting List Deadline)</span></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="caret-color: rgb(65, 156, 255); white-space: pre;"> </span><u class="" style="caret-color: rgb(65, 156, 255); color: rgb(65, 156, 255);">Robotic Service Ontology RFP</u><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(65, 156, 255);"> (Voting List Deadline)</span></div><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(65, 156, 255);"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="color: rgb(65, 156, 255); white-space: pre;"> </span><u class="" style="color: rgb(65, 156, 255);">REST for CORBA (CORBA-REST) RFP</u> (Voting List Deadline)<br class=""><br class=""></span><div class="">June 22-26: <a href="https://www.omg.org/events/2020Q2/" class="">Q2 2020 Meeting</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It looks to be a busy meeting, and if you have any interest in the above contributions, I urge you to dive in and explore.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Once again, I’d like to thank every OMG member, chair and staff who made our Q1 2020 Meeting a success, and we look forward to hosting you in June for Q2, in September for Q3, and in the months to come no matter where we all may be.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Stay safe, and stay healthy out there.</div></div>
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