CGM Open press releases and other newsworthy events.

2007

• W3C and OASIS Jointly Issue New Web Standard for Industrial Graphics. Cooperation brings broad expertise to WebCGM 2.0.

2004

• Feature freeze on non-DOM WebCGM 2.0 functional upgrades, closure of new DOM and related issues, reached at Houston face-to-face of OASIS CGM Open WebCGM TC (11/2004).

• CGM Open WebCGM TC reaches "feature-freeze" for WebCGM 2.0 DOM, begins vendor trial implementations (8/2004).

• OASIS Forms CGM Open Member Section to Advance WebCGM Graphics Standard

• Revised and updated WebCGM-SVG study for technical graphics application published and presented at XML Europe 2004.

• CGM Open member telecon prioritizes and restarts CGMO technical program, pending integration as OASIS technical committee (3/2004).

2003

• CGM Open member meeting reviews draft WebCGM DOM, advances Interoperability Project data and tracking tools (9/2003).

• CGM Open member meeting focuses on WebCGM DOM and Event model, plus further deployment of Interoperability Project data and tracking tools (6/2003)

• CGM Open presents WebCGM-SVG comparison with respect to technical graphics requirements at XML 2003 Europe interoperability project released (5/2003)

• CGM Open member meeting focuses on Interoperability Project topics, including actual conformance data for the WebCGM products, and deployment of the Interop-problem tracking system. (4/2003)

• First results of CGM Open's Interoperability Project released -- a product directory of WebCGM products (2/2003)

2002

• CGM Open meeting makes final plans for product directory and interoperability service (9/2002).

• Two-day CGM Open member meeting focuses on DOM design, interoperability projects (6/2002).

• CGM Open publishes and distributes a free WebCGM Conformance Test Suite (2002-01-21).

2001

• CGM Open and W3C publish WebCGM 1.0 Second Release (2001-12-18)

• CGM Open distributes a complete WebCGM fragment parser, free for public use (11/2001)

• WebCGM Interoperability Event at XML 2001 (10/2001)

• New, improved version of Browser Helper Object (BHO) is released (9/2001)

• CGM Open and W3C co-sponsor Web Graphics track at XML Europe 2001, 21-25 May, 2001, Berlin.

• Full-day CGM DOM workshop resolves basic design and content issues (3/2001).

• CGM Open and NIST publicly release detailed plan for CGMO-NIST WebCGM test suite (3/2001)

• CGM Open makes public release of Browser Helper Object solution. CGMO BHO Project.(1/2001)

2000

• CGM Open and W3C co-sponsor Web Graphics track at XML'2000, December 4-8, Washington DC.

• CGM Open Technical committee meeting prepares details for early-2001 maintenance release of WebCGM.

• Technical Committee meeting spends full day on technical agenda, Paris (9/2000)

• Task-team engineer to Microsoft campus, devises BHO solution to "#-fragment" problem (8/2000)

• Technical Committee meeting spends full day on technical agenda, Denver (6/2000)

• CGM Open co-sponsors Web Graphics track at XML'2000 Europe, Paris (6/2000)

• CGM Open hires Program Director, Lofton Henderson (4/2000)

• Annual General Meeting, plus Technical Committee meeting, in Memphis (3/2000)

• URI fragment (object-linking) task team forms and commences work (3/2000)

1999

• CGM Open members demonstrate WebCGM Interoperability at XML'99, Granada Spain

• Boeing , Airbus and U.S. Navy Joins CGM Open.

• Two days of detailed Technical Committee meetings at OASIS summer workshop, Montreal

• CGM Open becomes an OASIS affiliate. Press release, FAQ

1998

• CGM Open participated in the OASIS Summer Workshops. Have a look at the report.

• CGM Open has selected a logo. This web site is the first place to use the logo.

• ISO SC24 has approved "Category C" liaison status for the CGM Open Consortium. From now on CGM Open can participate in the activities of the ISO CGM standard committee.