[Oslc-steeringcommittee] AI: keeping the initial assessment document as a living and ongoing assessment

[Ersch, Rainer]

Dear StC Colleagues,
this mail is in response to the action item Sean assigned to me from our last meeting:

4. Rainer: open the subject of "keeping the initial assessment document as a living and ongoing assessment" on the mailing list, cover the benefits of doing so, and propose how we'll cover the cost (in time) of doing so

This action item was based on my comment, when Sean presented the "OSLC initial assessment", not to stop here with the assessment. As indicated in the action item, my proposal was to keep this document (work) going and monitor progress over time. Especially some of the numbers (members, participating companies, workgroup sessions and participants, etc.) could serve as a base matrix to monitor. Based on these numbers, "someone" should draw conclusions from time to time, and some of these numbers should be published to document OSLC success.
As far as the numbers are concerned, hopefully the new governance model (OSLC membership, WPA signees, ..) and the new infrastructure (page hits, etc) will make it easier to get such numbers. For some others, we could ask e.g. the WG leads to provide them on quarterly bases (e.g. number of WG meetings and participants). Publishing could be done by the COM WG. StC (and analysts?) could evaluate and draw conclusions.

What are the right numbers we want to monitor?
Here are some examples:

-            Number of OSLC members

-            Number of participating companies (companies of OSLC members)

-            Number of released spec (versions)

-            Number of WG meetings, participants, ...

-            Number of partners (SDO, other associations and such we work with, ..)

-            Number of contributors on Lyo

-            Number of contributions on Lyo

-            Number of implementations (as listed on "Software")

-            Number of vendors with released products with OSLC implementations

-            Number of publications (webcasts, conference talks, ...)

-            Some Page hits on "open-services.net" (e.g. "ABOUT" as indicator for "new" interest, "BLOG" as info about active users, ...)

-            ...


There are some more suggestions in Sean initial assessment paper (see attached). The basic question is: how do we come to useful and easy to maintain list?  The next question is, what kind of conclusions do we expect (growth rates expectations, release frequencies, ...). We could monitor the numbers for a while and then identify areas to work on.
If this topic is important to us, we should give our Operation Coordinator to collect these numbers with the help of some other roles. Keep in mind, we only have one Operation Coordinator and we should keep an eye on the workload and priorities we assign to him.

Please feel free to comment on this and add your ideas and concerns.

Bye and have a nice day
Rainer



From: oslc-steeringcommittee-bounces at open-services.net [mailto:oslc-steeringcommittee-bounces at open-services.net] On Behalf Of Sean Kennedy
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 10:20 PM
To: oslc-steeringcommittee at open-services.net
Subject: [Oslc-steeringcommittee] (draft) Minutes from 19 July 2012 meeting are now available


Hello Steering Committee members:

The minutes of today's meeting are now available: http://open-services.net/wiki/120719-StC-Meeting/#minutes
Please review and comment if you spot an inaccuracy or have another concern.

At the bottom of that document you will also find all the action items<http://open-services.net/wiki/120719-StC-Meeting/#action-items> grouped together. Steve Speicher, John Wiegand, Rainer Ersch, and myself have action items.
Although not called out as an "action item from this meeting", I think it would be good for everyone to take a look at the ideas for raising the profile of OSLC<http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/AwarenessRaisingActivities#ideas> that the Communications WG has compiled. If you have thoughts for more ideas, please feel free to add them directly to that page.

The agenda for the August meeting<http://open-services.net/wiki/1208-StC-Meeting/> is also available, and has three draft topics (you may also want to look at the StC agenda topics backlog<http://open-services.net/wiki/StC-Agenda-Topics-Backlog/>).

Sean Kennedy<mailto:seanpk at ca.ibm.com>

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