Joining the BLIS -project

This procedure was agreed after an email discussion on 15.06.2000

Procedure for joining the BLIS -project

• Company wanting to join BLIS must be willing to make a clear commitment to do one of the following beginning immediately after joining BLIS
  • Implement software support for one or more existing BLIS 'model views'
  • Help define a new BLIS view in collaboration with existing members (facilitate by the BLIS TC) and then proceed with (1)
  • Organize and/or participate in a pilot project that will test BLIS companies' software in real AEC projects as soon as the software supporting that pilot is ready
    
• Nomination and second to nomination by two different existing BLIS organizations (the sponsors)
  
• All existing participants have one week to comment for or against - and vote
  
• Votes are tallied
• If the majority agree with the proposal, the company will be formally invited to join by an email copied to the BLIS email list -- this invitation will ask for confirmation of which commitments (above) they are making
• Upon receipt of confirmation, they will be given a BLIS member briefing kit including
  • Web site info (username, password, etc.)
  • Project backgrounder
  • BLIS contacts information
  • List of other BLIS companies working on the 'use cases' they have chosen