2013 May 8, 6 PM BST / 1 PM EDT / 10 AM PDT
Virtual meeting details
We intend to start the meeting on time. It will absolutely start when everyone is on the phone, or at 5 after, whichever is first.
This is the 11th meeting of the “bootstrapping” OSLC Steering Committee.
Contents
Agenda
1. Press and Analyst plans for the OSLC goes to OASIS [20m]
[review | discuss | vote]
Led by Bola.
2. OSLC Connect 2013 [20m]
[review | discuss]
- Led by Parham Vasailey, EADS, OSLC Communications UG Lead
- (Jane Harnad, Manager of Events for OASIS is also in attendance.)
- See also:
3. Next meetings [15m]
3a June Meeting [5m]
[review]
This will be the first meeting of the OSLC Member Section at OASIS Steering Committee.
Agenda.
3b The various OSLC activities at Innovate [5m]
[review]
At Innovate 2013
3c Best weeks for 3Q meetings [5m]
[discuss]
- What are the best weeks for StC members in July, August, and September?
- Sean will create doodles to agree on a date and time in those weeks
Attendees
Steering Committee
- Rainer Ersch, Senior Research Scientist at Siemens
- David Ingram, Managing Director 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)
Steering Committee Staff
- Operations Coordinator, Sean Kennedy, IBM
- Technical Coordinator, Steve Speicher, IBM
Presenters
- Parham Vasailey, EADS, OSLC Communications UG Lead
Observers
Minutes
0. OASIS web infrastructure update
- Scott McGrath: give an update on the web assets
- Welcome messages from the OASIS website have gone out
- no join button for the MS, they manually add folks to the roster
- the StC members are on two rosters: the MS roster + the StC roster
- MS roster is completely public
- StC roster visible to only MS participants
- do need to consider where to do the work, public mailing lists, or somewhere more private
- oasis-oslc.org will be for the more public-facing things
- John: let’s put a topic on our June meeting to discuss that
1. Press and Analyst plans for the OSLC goes to OASIS
[review | discuss | vote]
- Bola
- overview of the plan
- TODO: make document available to all
- want to give the overview and get feedback and (hopefully) support from the StC
- the analysts call is similar to what we did in February on the OSLC Community webcast
- important to make a big deal of all the cross-industry support
- Bola, as an analyst couldn’t present
- prefer not to have IBM taking the lead, Mik is OK to take the StC lead
- OASIS will participate
- hope to get an end user to participate too
- date/time: May 21, 10 AM EDT
- other StC members should join the call too
- presentation for the event to be an update from the one used in Feb, Sean is responsible
- would like everyone on the call to provide a quote as to why they’re taking part in OSLC and what the benefits they have
- John: what I hear is that there is a plan, we want the StC to approve, and then work will continue, are there any questions before we get to a vote?
- Bola: one other piece of info, we’re going to ask OASIS to issue the invitations to the analyst community
- contact info for that community will be contributed by IBM
- with the invite coming from OASIS, we think this may raise more interest from analysts
- if anyone has any particular analysts who they’d like to attend, please forward that information to Sean
- Bola: when we produce our own press release (or blog) it is important to get quotes from the orgs who’ve assisted us in creating the OASIS member section
- Rainer: do we have a target date?
- Sean: yes, we are now settled on May 21 at 10 AM EDT; I will send a HOLD if we’re
- Dave Ingram: can’t make the 21st personally, I’ll need to check with our press/analyst process to get a quote out there
- Rainer: that process will apply to us as well, that is a risk for this plan: we may not get the quotes in time
- Bola: right, even if it doesn’t arrive in time, it is good to start the process because you’ll need it
- Carol Geyer: there is no problem doing two press releases, we just need to make sure they’re not duplicate
- our press release, will allow for quotes from everyone who’s joined the OSLC Member Section
- John: I think we have agreement in principle
- let’s send out the specific steps in the plan
- also acknowledge the OASIS press release is separate
- Sean: if we execute in the open, and allow for folks to “scream and shout” if they have any issues, will that be sufficient
- general agreement
2. OSLC Connect 2013
[review | discuss]
- Parham: provides background on himself and the Communications UG
- John: one thing we should figure out is how the Comms UG and the StC should interact on this item
- Parham:
- identified that it is time for an event, we’re finding that we’re discussing about this on a regular basis - there is a thirst for information and a growing momentum
- EU research activities are identifying OSLC as a very interesting and promising integration tech
- OASIS will be the official organizer
- Rainer: this list of Org Committee - is it a final list, do we have commitment
- Parham: this is more the folks who have contributed to where we are
- Rainer: so this isn’t the program committee, will we have one?
- Parham: yes, that makes sense
- Parham: looking at the work plan, you see we’ve done some work, we’re looking for the StC to say it’s good so that we can move forward to executing
- John: I can’t quite answer the question yet … how big? what are the goals?
- Bola: me too … to have an event is great, what I’m looking for:
- size?, one or two days?, budget - where is it coming from?
- Parham: we’ve got some of this info in the doc, let’s go look at it
- Parham: the plan is high-level, we do have a detailed checklist from Jane as well
- back to covering the document: conference title, key goals, target audience
- John: are we expecting 50, 500, or 5000 people?
- Parham: we are targeting 40-50 as our minimum
- back to doc: co-hosting, it is out
- we investigated going with EclipseCon Europe, but it didn’t work out
- we do have support from them for promoting our event
- London is the location that has been identified, more details on which specific venue options exist is to be available for next week
- we’re planning on a single day event, sometime between Sept 15 and Oct 31
- costs: 9k Euros, looking for 5 1k Euros sponsors and participants to pay 150 Euros
- Bola: are you expecting the presenters to pay as well?
- Parham: for our first event, we were thinking they should
- Bola: I don’t think it is right
- Andreas: with such a small group, you could easily have 30% of attendees being speakers
- Bola: we need to have another meeting
- Parham: how about I send around the latest document, and what checkpoints we’d like from the StC
- John: that is good, also come to us with what decisions you expect the StC to make
- Rainer: let us also have clear direction as to who we need to send emails too
- Andreas: let us have an active discussion over email; we can’t wait to June
- Bola: based on past experience, I think the time line is doable
- Rainer: but we have summer vacation in our way too
- there is no program committee, you have to call for papers etc.
- Parham: we’re not doing a professional conference
- John: I’d like to understand what kind of conference this is:
- a workshop, an invitational, an open conference
- they all have different requirements and different time lines
3. Next meetings
- John: Sean, please send an email so that folks can have an awareness of the upcoming events
Summary
Agreements and Consensus in this meeting
- proceed with the AR/PR plan as presented by Bola
- Sean to send out more details on dates
- execute “in the open” so that StC members have a chance to give direction as we go
- make the first news a blog on open-services.net
- time for after the OASIS Board minutes are published and before the analyst call
Action Items from this meeting
- Sean: add an agenda item for June to cover the topic of OASIS web resources in more detail
- Sean: provide more details on dates for the AR/PR plan
- Sean: reach out to all MS supporters to request quotes now, in the hopes we’ll have some by the 21st, and the rest in time for the OASIS press release
- Parham: send the latest document for OSLC Connect, include time line to checkpoints by the StC, highlight the items that need StC attention
- Sean: to send email reminding folks to review the “upcoming meetings” portion of this agenda
- also create doodles for 3Q meetings
Future Agenda Topics from this meeting
- what are the OASIS web resources, how do we want to use them? (added to the June meeting)
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