New York Technical Advisory Group (NYTAG)

Title: NYTAG Meeting - Last Call

Author: wjd@mindspring.com (W. J. Davidson)

Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 04:29:22 GMT


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To New York Area SGMLers:

I am pleased to announce that the second meeting of the New York
(area) Technical Advisory Group ("NYTAG") of the SGML Forum of 
New York, Inc. will take place as follows:

Date:		Thursday September 11, 1997
Time:		3:00 p.m. (until we're done or 6:00 p.m.)
Place:		Matthew Bender & Co., Inc.
		2 Park Avenue, 7th Floor
		New York NY 10016

Directions:	Between 32nd & 33rd Streets (west side of Park Ave.).
		Meeting hosted by Chet Ensign (448-2466).
		Please go directly to 7th floor.

Proposed Agenda:
		1. Recap previous meeting
		2. Review draft mission statement
		3. Call for volunteers (NYTAG chair & sec'y)
		4. "WG8 TC for WebSGML" review - status update
		5. Discussion of next activities
		6. Press release
		7. New business
		8. Next steps
		
If you haven't already done so, please RSVP.
Space is limited and we need to keep track of numbers.

NYTAG was formed with the intention of acting
as a conduit between the members of the SGML 
Forum of New York and those organizations
responsible for the technical direction of SGML and
related standards: standards bodies, industry 
consortia, vendors' groups, etc.  

The plan is to keep the local membership informed 
about changes and developments to the relevant standards
and the practical implications such developments might 
have for local users and companies.

The Technical Advisory Group will gather users' ideas, 
concerns, suggestions and recommendations and publicize 
them through position papers, press releases, member surveys,
and the like. NYTAG is not intended to duplicate the
activities of existing standards bodies. Its purpose is
constructive advocacy and the inclusion of the local user
community in the ongoing work of developing SGML and its
related standards. Major corporations in the New York
area are represented.

For more details about NYTAG, see the brief article
on page 14 of the July 1997 issue of ISUG Newsletter 
(Vol. 3, Issue 3).

Direct any questions and/or suggestions to me by email.

With thanks,

Joe Davidson

N.B. For the benefit of friends and colleagues to whom I have
     been "joe@sq.com" (@ SoftQuad Inc.) for the last seven years
     and to correct the information at the end of the above 
     mentioned article, please note the new contact & affiliation
     information below.  I can also be contacted at the Microstar
     Software Inc. office in Princeton, NJ at 609-987-1707.
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W. Joseph Davidson	Tel:   +1 212 691 4463
Microstar Software Inc.	Fax:   +1 212 691 1821
New York, NY 10014	Free:  888-NYC-SGML
U.S.A.			Email: wjd@microstar.com
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