Open Marine Initiative
08 August 2007 - 10:41
August 7, 2007 – The Open Marine Initiative is proud to announce that it has acquired new members, held elections for the posts of Chairman and the membership of the Steering and Development committees, and has laid out a substantial portion of its plans for the foreseeable future.
In a meeting held on Monday, August 6th, 2007, CSL Publishing (www.boatmart.co.uk), Rightboat Ltd. (www.rightboat.com) and Site by Simon (www.sitebysimon.co.uk) were confirmed as the latest members of the Initiative. It was also decided that the following companies would comprise the initial membership of the Steering and Development Committees: Boats and Outboards (www.boatsandoutboards.co.uk), CSL Publishing Ltd., Forum Software Ltd. (www.forumboats.com), Marine Trader Media (www.boatshop24.com / www.boatshop24.co.uk), Rightboat Ltd., Sailing Networks (www.sailingnetworks.com), and TheYachtMarket.com Ltd. (www.theyachtmarket.com) .
The first elected Chairman of the Initiative, who will hold the post for a period of 6 months, is Richard Roberts, Business Director of TheYachtMarket.com.
The meeting laid a clear pathway for the development of a new, open standard for the data exchange of boat advertisement data, publicity plans for ensuring the benefits of Open Marine are communicated to the brokers, and formalising its business and web hosting arrangements.
Amongst the exciting new ideas that the Initiative is committed to exploring includes the provision of an open, comprehensive makes and models database; the participation of boat manufacturers in this effort will be sought and encouraged.
More information about the initiative can be found at www.openmarine.org
