11 February 2013
6 PM GMT / 1 PM EST / 10 AM PST
Virtual meeting details
Contents
Agenda
1. Proposal: new formal role: OSLC StC Technical Coordinator
Proposed by Rainer
[discussion | vote]
- idea: formalize the link between the Core WG and the Steering Committee
- nomination: Steve Speicher
2. Prepare for Feb 20 webcast
Start time: 11 AM EST (Registration Page)
2a Review presentation
Charts sent by Sean on Feb 8
[review | discussion]
2b Discuss delivery
[discussion]
- Can everyone attend?
- Who will present what?
- What will everyone say when they introduce themselves?
3. OASIS Migration Discussion
[discussion]
Not covered; no minutes.
Attendees
Steering Committee
- Rainer Ersch, Senior Research Scientist at Siemens
- David Ingram, Managing Director at Accenture
- Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop
- Bola Rotibi, Research Director at Creative Intellect
- John Wiegand, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect for IBM Rational (StC Chairman)
Regrets
- Andreas Keis, Manager, Software Engineering at EADS Innovation Works UK
Steering Committee Staff
- Operations Coordinator, Sean Kennedy, IBM
Presenters
Minutes
1. Proposal: new formal role: OSLC StC Technical Coordinator
- Rainer: Steve is attending every StC meeting, and he is our link to the Core WG, so we should make it formal that he is acting in this role
- John: I believe the role is an important one; an StC that is not connected to the technical community is not as effective
- small concern: that we’re filling these Coordinator roles with IBM employees
- Mik: I’m for Steve
- John: is there any alternative perspectives on this?
- Steve: the position could be defined as “the Core WG lead”
- John: the Core WG is an obvious connection, but I don’t know if we want to force the role to be that person
- Rainer: I think it is good to keep it independent at the moment, but make use of the fact that Steve is the Core WG lead
- John: what I’m hearing is that we are collectively good with creating the position and filling it with Steve
2. Prepare for Feb 20 webcast
- John: is anyone unable to make this call?
- Dave: I need to confirm after this call
2a Review presentation
- John: at a high-level this is fine
- one thing: it feels like our focus is to let people know about our progress and our openness to other people participating
- so when I see “what’s new” and “what’s the future” it seems that we’re simply telling the OASIS story
- is that the right thought? is this what we want to do?
- say from chart 8 on
- Bola: this second draft talks to all the relevant pieces; are you saying we shouldn’t talk about OASIS?
- John: I’m OK talking about OASIS, it is part of it, but is it really the answer to “what is the future of OSLC?”
- the answer is broader
- do we want to be aspirational, do we want to talk about some bigger things
- Bola: maybe it’s a wording thing, maybe we just need to set OASIS as the “immediate” future
- alternatively, we could do one slide that takes the bigger view
- John: yes. but we don’t have that slide yet, and I’m not sure its good to do in the next week
- Bola: OASIS is the immediate future, we can talk about why each of us is involved
- John: the title is “looking for leaders” but that doesn’t connect well with the rest of the deck
- Sean: we could create an aspirational slide …
- Bola: it is probably worth having a good discussion about this at a future meeting
- Mik: I think it good to have one slide; there is a bigger picture here, and we should connect to that
- I could help create with a slide like this … we’ve been doing some work like this for Tasktop
- Sean: will fit well right before we get into the details of OASIS
2b Discuss delivery
- Bola: how about John, as the chair, starts the the delivery, and run it until we get to slide 9 where we can each say our piece.
- what is in the slide deck comes from all of us
- John: I’m glad to kick things off, do some framing
- Bola: maybe the question we should ask is: does anyone else want to present?
- Rainer: I’m certainly willing, but my main concern is that we don’t speak to much, but take time to listen
- Mik: I’m willing to participate, can can do the setup
- John: easier for folks to listen to one voice at a time, I see:
- an intro setup
- acknowledgement of interesting things in the past year
- news about OASIS
- then open the conversation to the community
- try to finish our materials in 20-30 minutes
- Bola: so we don’t have any “tumbleweed moments”, we need a “plan b”
- John: great point; I suggest we set up a discussion amongst ourselves
- Bola: we can also have some seed questions
- Rainer: can we email folks and ask for questions up front?
- Sean: yes, we can do that
- John: Mik will start us off - here’s what OSLC is, and its interesting (slides 4 and 5)
- Mik: just let me know how much time
- John: not sure what to do about slide 7
- Rainer: don’t read this through, just pick a few points and let people follow the links to learn more
- probably focus on Lyo as a key collaboration area for the community
- it is impressive to see the list, but lets not dive into detail
- John: easy transition between slide 8 and slide 9
- I will cover slide 7 and 9 and start the discussion on slide 9
- John: what is interesting on slide 9, is for each of us to make a comment about why OSLC is interesting to us and/or our company
- 1 minute per person, upper bound
- is everyone OK with that?
- should we ask Sean and Steve to make observations about what they do?
- Rainer: the other option, is that you take the conversation back, and also introduce Sean and Steve
- John: how to divide up slides 11-13
- Sean: we will put in one aspiration slide too … Mik could present that since we’re drawing from his materials
- John: lots of people can talk aspirational … Mik can do that
- Rainer: how much time are we going to spend on this
- John: when I read this, unless you’re an insider, this is gibberish … it isn’t what people care about
- John: do we want to this as a report, could give to Steve or Sean to do
- Rainer: page 12 (stepping up) is enough to tell the story
- we don’t need to discuss the detailed roadmap on the bottom; we don’t need the backup about V3 specs
- page 13 (vision for OSLC) can go as backup
- Rainer: I can take page 15 (call to action).
- John: we need to think of a set of questions that we want to ask
- Sean, can you collect and create a script of questions
- Rainer: we have a follow-up with the INCOSE OSLC interest group this week; in the Q&A section, we could ask the INCOSE folks why they’re interested in OSLC
- I could ask them to talk for 5 minutes about this
- John: its great to have pre-primed questions/content form INCOSE and others
- have to be ready to talk amongst ourselves too
- Steve: can ask the same of others such as GM and Ericsson
- Rainer: just don’t want to have too many folks talking on the same thing
- the other vulnerability when people are disconnected, they ask questions that aren’t meaningful
- Dave: we could also put a question to the audience
- say: what are you trying to get out of OSLC?
- this could be where we invite GM and Ericsson to speak
- Bola: can we also do some survey questions
- Rainer: we can use the hand raising to gauge that input … specific questions require time for people to read an answer
- Sean: I can make a list of such question to use just in case
- John: Sean, you do the chart rev with the proposed speaking and time assignments (in the speakers notes)
Summary
Agreements and Consensus in this meeting
- Steve Speicher is confirmed as Technical Coordinator for the OSLC Steering Committee
Action Items from this meeting
- Mik: send on some charts he’s worked on describing the aspirations on OSLC
- Sean: curate a list of questions “amongst ourselves” for the webcast
- Sean: build a list of “poll” questions we can use if needed in the webcast
- Sean: to revise the charts, include speakers and times in the speakers notes as well
- Rainer: to follow up with INCOSE and Mike Loeffler about being reading to answer the questions “why are you interested in OSLC?” and “what do you hope to get out of OSLC?”
- Steve: to see if Ericsson is able to do the same
Future Agenda Topics from this meeting
- what is the “big vision” for OSLC? - looking beyond OASIS
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