[Asis-l] NISO Annual Meeting

[Cynthia Hodgson]

NISO Annual Meeting to Focus on Standards and Patents

NISO's annual meeting and program will be held Tuesday, 
October 21, 2003 at 4:00pm-6:00pm at the Westin Hotel, 
Long Beach, CA in conjunction with the American Society 
for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) annual 
conference.  ASIS&T has graciously invited all NISO 
members to register for the full-conference at the ASIS&T 
member rate.

The NISO program will feature Bruce Perens as the opening 
speaker who will discuss the issue of Patents and Their 
Impact on Standards Development.  Mr. Perens is a leader 
in the Free Software and Open Source community.  He is 
creator of the Open Source Definition, the manifesto of 
the Open Source movement in Software.  He's founder or 
co?founder of the Open Source Initiative, The Linux 
Standard Base, Software in the Public Interest, and 
No-Code International.  He is series editor of the Bruce 
Perens' Open Source Series line of books with Prentice 
Hall PTR publishers, which he required be released under 
an Open Source license.  Perens previously spent two years 
with HP as Senior Global Strategist for Linux and Open 
Source, and was president of Linux Capital Group, a 
venture fund that specialized in Linux.  He spent 20 years 
in the computer graphic animation industry, 12 of them at 
Pixar Animation Studios and has a credit on the films, A 
Bug's Life and Toy Story II. 

Following the opening speaker, reports will be presented 
on all of NISO?s current standards initiatives including 
OpenURL, Monolingual Thesauri, Networked Reference 
Services, and Metrics and Statistics.

Schedules and registration information for the ASIS&T 
conference are on the ASIST website at: 
<http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM03/index.html>.  For 
further details on the NISO program contact Pat Harris (T: 
301-654-2512/email: pharris at niso.org).


Cynthia Hodgson
National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
4733 Bethesda Avenue, Suite 300
Bethesda, MD  20814-5248
T. 301-654-2512, F. 301-654-1721
www.niso.org