April 24, 2003
XML Web Services Special Interest Group members' meeting



XMLOne is proud to announce the formation of the Web Services SIG (WS SIG) on April 24, 2003.

A new working committee was formed on that day. XMLOne would like to thank the following individuals who have accepted their respective appointments.

Chair-Lady: Ms Tan Puay Siew -- SIMTech/JSSL
Secretary – Mr Neil Burton -- Individual

Working Committee Members:
Mr Adrian Kok -- GrideNode
Ms Ang Chai Hong – SIMTech/JSSL
Mr Chan Mun Keat – GDWorks
Mr Jeoffrey Hadfield – BCA
Ms Lee Siew Poh – SIMTech
Mr V. Ramasamy – SIMTech/JSSL
Ms Wu Ying Zi – SIMTech/JSSL



What and why ...

The purpose of this Special Interest Group, SIG, is to provide a forum for companies and individual to meet and discuss about technical issues and other related subject regarding Web Services.
The SIG main role is to facilitate activities such as meeting, forum, seminars and match-make solutions providers to users. These activities aim at promoting and providing information that will assists members in embarking on their Web Services projects.


Proceeding of the session

The purpose of this meeting is to provide an introduction to XMLOne Special Interest Group, its objectives and mission. It will explain the purposes of forming this special interest group and its propose project.

The programme for the session:
1) Update on ITSC XML Working Group XIP Project
2) Nomination for new working committee
3) Members' discussion and meeting


SIG directions and plans

The new committee has proposed the following objectives for the first year:
Educate and promote Web Services to the communities
Attract more members to join the Special Interest Group

The committee proposed to carry out the following activities for the year.

Training
---- Creating awareness by collecting information and material about web Services.
---- Conduct Workshops.
---- Organized student projects

Applications – B2B, B2C
---- Case studies
---- Standards applications

Members Forum
---- Developers
---- End Users

Web Services Testing


For more information about this activity please contact:


Andy Tan
for XMLOne SCM Special Interest Group
andy.tan@xmlone.org, Tel: 6484 7321