Hello everyone.

I hope that you can take a moment to allow me to introduce the open source project that we (at Etish Limited) have been working on. The project is the Open Requirements Management Framework (ORMF), which has been recently accepted by Eclipse as a public proposal. The goal of the ORMF is to extend the Eclipse platform to create an open source framework for building Eclipse based tools that manage requirements documents.

Our hopes are that ORMF becomes the basis for best of breed tools in this realm. To accomplish this we really need the participation of the community. Only by involving knowledgeable professionals and organisations can we hope to fulfil the vision of a free and available industrial quality Requirements Management facility.

I would appreciate if you could take the time to look over the proposal and comment on it. Your questions, feedback, thoughts, musings and advice are all solicited with earnestness. You can do so either by replying directly or, even better, by accessing the project's Eclipse newsgroup eclipse.technology.ormf via its web portal (or by using your favourite newsreader). Access to the newsgroup requires subscription, which you can obtain here.

Thank you very much for your attention.

Kindest regards,

Barbara (Etish Limited)