26 September 2012: OSLC Steering Committee meeting
11 AM EDT
Agenda
0. approve OSLC Asset Management V2 specification
approved via email
1. open action items and issues
[review] (see August Meeting)
- especially “Big Org Invitations focal point self-selection”
2. Where and when of our next F2F meeting
[discussion]
See the (incomplete) list of upcoming conferences on the mailing list.
3. Next Meeting
- proposal: October 22, 4 PM London time (partial F2F in London)
Attendees
Steering Committee
- Rainer Ersch, Senior Research Scientist at Siemens
- David Ingram, Executive Principal at Accenture
- Andreas Keis, Manager, Software Engineering at EADS Innovation Works UK
- Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop
- Bola Rotibi, Research Director at Creative Intellect
- John Wiegand, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect for IBM Rational (StC Chairman)
Presenters
- Parham Vasaiely, EADS, Communications WG Lead
Observers
- Rachel Kuta, IBM
- Diane Jordan, IBM
Minutes
by Sean Kennedy, OSLC Steering Committee Operations Coordinator
1. open action items and issues
- Mik approves SCM recharter to Configuration Management
- Parham covers the plan for backlog:
- do plan to make make all people who sign the Members Agreement to have awareness of the CommsWG
- item 4: the promoters toolkit (item 1) is an important supporting effort to this item
- will also make an update to the poster (as there was one before)
- Andreas: have we looked into an OSLC booth at Innovate UK
- Parham: have not yet discussed, but good idea
- reach out to Mark & Roy to see if we can do this
- Sean: would be a good trial/dry run for something that we can run at other conferences
- item 9: had intial discussions, standalone OSLC conference does not yet make sense
- think that we should have presence at the the
- WGs should have better representation at conferences, a great recruiting tool
- John W.: really like: having OSLC visible at EVERY conference - it is something ubiquitous
- Rainer: like the idea too, but should not be an alternative to an OSLC conference, they can both happen; should be sure to pick another conference that is not an IBM conference
- Bola: we should build a list of relevant conferences, understand their submission process and help people get involved
- Mik: from experience: 1st build critical mass in the community, 2nd start a conference; have to make sure before we go to another conference, we have some critical mass of interest at the conference
- Rainer: yes, we have to be present at Innovate; can we pick another conference where we can have “OSLC at X” … PLM World would be an option
- item 5: try to make use of existing contacts to TBL, Sean K. owns this to organize and follow up
- item 12: create a template, then reach out to committed people
- Rainer: an essential part of the promoter’s tool (item 1)
- an important decision is about domain experts
- we want to recruit people who are already recognized, but we want to help current WG participants to become recognized as such through their OSLC participation
- Sean: how to provide updates?
- John: verbal updates and discussion like we’ve had are good
- Rainer: should compile a list of regular topics to revisit on a regular basis
- See also the OSLC StC private minutes for this meeting
2. Where and when of our next F2F meeting
- John W.: “mark in the sand” - have a F2F meeting at Innovate 2013 (optimistic that we all agree we should meet here too); then have another meeting too
- agree that we’ll meet at Innovate
- Mik: ALM Connect (sub conference of EclipseCon) is in March 25-28 Boston
- Dave West is the conference chair
- last year everyone on our table had representatives, open source too
- Rainer: main question is if we have another, where, and to what purpose
- ALM Connect is OK, still think ALM Summit is a great one for helping us put pressure on Microsoft
- general support for having another meeting
- John W.: think it is important that we meet at a non-IBM conference
- Bola: also consider Embedded World (end of February in Germany)
- given the interest in OSLC from the systems space, the StC make up, and that its in Europe, it would be a good fit
- Andreas: another conference ENCOSE in Philidelphia at the end of July
- Dave: would need to make sure that we can build the case for traveling to the other conference
- agree: we want to meet at a non-IBM conference in January-February, OK to “leak” into March
- Bola: calling out for papers now - could we create a presentation?
- Andreas: would be great if we could be part of
- Action: Sean to get preferences from StC members
3. Next meeting
- ran out of time to cover in the meeting
- Action: Sean to contact each StC member to confirm that having an StC meeting on October 22 will work
Agreements and Consensus in this meeting
- Mik also approves of the rechartering of SCM to Configuration Management
- Occasional verbal updates from the Communications WG on their execution progress is valuable
Action Items from this meeting
- Parham: confirm that we can hang an OSLC poster, or distrubute and OSLC flyer at Innovate UK
- Communications WG + StC input: create a list of conferences where OSLC should have a presence
- corollary … Communications WG: promote for people to submit presentations, track who’s going, enable attendees with materials, help coordinate the OSLC presence
- Sean: follow up with contacts about engaging TBL for a short Linked Data & OSLC video
- Sean + StC input: create a list of reoccuring agenda items that we can pull into meeting agendas on a periodic basis
- Bola: draft a proposal on engaging analysts for the StC to review
- Sean: connect with each StC member individually to find out which orgs they are comfortable approaching
- Sean: connect with each StC member individually and get conference preferences
Future Agenda Topics from this meeting
- [review] proposal for engaging analysts - Bola
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