Re: FW: A DASC Multimedia Stds Product

Peter,
This certainly seems like a cool idea to increase
the revenue for a given standards product.
Are they proposing to share the revenue with the
working groups who put forth the effort to write
the additional materials? The working groups
need funding to help support working group tasks
such as technical editors and purchasing additional
services from IEEE-SA.

These are good ideas, perhaps DASC WGs would want to
develop and sell this type of material separately as
a way to fund WG activity and to demonstrate the
commercial relevance of a standard.

Regards,
Jim

> Dear colleagues,
>
> The publications folks at IEEE-SA would like to develop a standards product
> for DASC standards based on their VuSpec format. This is a CD-based
> multimedia product incorporating the standards documents and related
> machine-readable data, plus other related material in a variety of formats
> (see outline below).
>
> I would like to get some ideas from DASC members about what you might like
> to see on such a product. As a start, I'd suggest the current versions of
> DASC-sponsored standards, WG-approved drafts of new standards and revisions
> in development, and contributed tutorials and interpretative material. I'd
> suggest we aim for an annual update of the product (assuming IEEE-SA would
> agree to that).
>
> Please forward your suggestions to me at mailto:peter@ashenden.com.au, and I
> will collate them with Damon.
>
> I believe this is an exciting opportunity to make our standards more usable
> and of benefit to our community. Thanks in anticipation of your input.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Peter Ashenden
> DASC Chair
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: d.logiudice@ieee.org [mailto:d.logiudice@ieee.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, 22 September 2004 00:11
> To: peter@ashenden.com.au
> Subject: A DASC Multimedia Stds Product
>
> ...
>
> However, based on what I heard yesterday, I'd still like to devote some
> resources to producing a VuSpec product. This is a Flash based IEEE Stds
> product on CD-ROM featuring the stds and WHATEVER ELSE YOU AND THE DASC
> COMMITTEE CAN DREAM UP! I'm serious. Please push the envelope, take me up
> on my challenge. For 2005, we can include video, tutorials, multimedia
> content, executable code, UML, HTML, as long as we work together to reduce
> costs. I will be able to absorb the bulk of the costs. What I need from DASC
> is content, valuable content behind and surrounding the stds... it might be
> a video, a framing introduction, a few graphics, illustrations, examples,
> whatever you think will best assist the DASC stds users past, present, and
> future.
>
> Looking forward to a DASC VuSpec in 2005,
>
>
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> Damon E. Logiudice
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Received on Thu Oct 7 04:44:45 2004