OSLC Steering Committee (SC) Meeting 1608 – August 16, 2016
Agenda
Attendees:
· SC Voting Members:
o Andreas Keis [x], Bill Chown [x], Bola Robiti [x], Jim Amsden [ ], Mark Schulte [x], Martin Sarabura [x], Mats Berglund [ ], Rainer Ersch [x], Wesley Coelho [ ]
· SC Staff Members: Nelson Jean [x]
· OASIS Staff: Jane Harnad [x], Scott McGrath [ ]
· Additional Attendees: Kalena Kelly [x]
# / Area / Topics1 / General Business
(20 mins) / A. Vision/Mission, Strategy and Direction Update (15 mins) -- Rainer
Discussion:
· Review Vision and feedback–
· http://open-services.net/wiki/steering-committee/Vision/
· http://open-services.net/wiki/steering-committee/OSLC-Vision-Comments/
· FYI: Other URLs:
· http://open-services.net/wiki/steering-committee/OSLC-Vision-Main/
· Topics to consider: http://open-services.net/wiki/steering-committee/OSLC-Vision-topics/
· Executive Summary was reviewed in the July meeting, and it was agreed that it should be posted along with the Vision Statement.
1. Any additional comments or questions?
· If not, should we now widen the awareness of now via OASIS, LinkedIn and open-services.net?
2. How to begin to execute on the Vision?
3. What are our steps forward from here? [See also Topic 4B]
Minutes:
· Awaiting comments from the remaining SC members. All who attended today’s meeting are good with the current vision and executive summary.
B. OASIS OSLC StC Elections (5 mins)
Discussion:
· Assuming the same as last year, elections will occur in September – first 2 weeks for nomination, and subsequent 2 weeks for voting.
· 3 seats up for election: Bill, Jim, and Mats
1. Bill, Jim, Mats – thoughts on whether you plan to seek re-election?
2. Do we want to an [OSLC-MS + other communities] FYI in advance, or leave it to the OASIS process?
Minutes:
· Bill will seek re-election. Jim is likely to and Rainer will follow-up with Mats offline.
· Will not plan to do any additional pre-announce and will just follow the OASIS call for nominations, which should occur around late August.
2 / TCs
(5 mins) / A. OSLC Domains TC Charter Update (5 mins) – Jim
Discussion:
· In the May meeting, we approved the chartering of an OSLC Domain TC to support migration and development of OSLC Domain specifications
o 6 current TC proposers is sufficient to move this forward with OASIS. Tasktop will deliver its letter of support.
· Core TC to take on Track Resource Sets and Linked Index Data providers. Vocabularies, shapes being established and in place, ready for review. So migration of existing specifications is proving to be fairly straightforward. Will start streaming to the TC for review.
1. Status update.
Minutes:
· Jim was not able to attend the meeting so we deferred this topic.
· Rainer raised the related topic of closing the Automation TC once the Domain TC is up and running. There is also a desire to have a pointer from the Automation TC to the Domain TC but there is a potential logistical timing issue related to the current Automation TC Chair and his resignation and associated availability to support the transition to the Domain TC.
· Jim has been discussing this with the Automation TC Chair and we’ll discuss at the next meeting. Nelson will discuss with Jim.
3 / OSLC Initiatives
(0 mins) / A. How can we help drive greater adoption of OSLC
· OSLC integration scenarios and business value. See Topic 4B.
4 / WGs / UGs
(40 mins) / A. OSLC Communications WG + Financials (20 mins) – Mark, Jane, Jim, Kalena
Discussion:
· OSLC Communications Scorecard: http://open-services.net/wiki/communications/MonthlyCommunicationScorecard/
o Need to look at past data and determine how frequently to gather it going-forward, and how best to leverage it.
o Need to focus on a way to measure the impacts and effectiveness of certain things that we release, do or convey to the public. This is complementary to scorecard metrics, which are helpful to establish trends over time.
o Action item for the Communications WG.
1. When to bring this back to StC for discussion?
Minutes:
· Kalena indicated this a planned discussion at the next Communications WG.
· For the scorecard to work, need to draw people to the various sites we are monitoring but there is also the targeted initiatives/campaigns that we intend on doing, where we’ll want to collect data on effectiveness, so there’s benefit to collecting data on an on-going basis.
· FYI: Conference calendar:
o SC wiki Front Page -> Working Documents -> Conferences and Events
§ Recommended list of conferences – http://open-services.net/wiki/communications/2016Events/
· IBM Continuous Engineering Conference (Nov 15-17, California – OASIS OSLC participation) – Jane
· Conference URL: http://learnquestconference.com/iceiot16/
· Completed:
o Silver exhibitor sponsorship ($2250)
§ Background on the exhibit space: The space provided with both packages will accommodate (1) 6' table and a chair. Pull-up banners and/or table top signage can be used. And wireless connectivity will be made available with both packages.
§ Includes: (1) 6' draped table in exhibit area, (2) full conference pass, logo and 40 word text on website, logo in onsite pocket guide, speaking opportunity and 1/2 page ad space in pocket guide.
· Items that need attention:
1. Register for two free exhibitor passes - https://www.regonline.com/register/checkin.aspx?EventId=1829553&RegTypeID=1016919
o How best to utilize these? Members from the community?
Minutes:
· Any prominent speaker worthwhile to invite, that could for e.g. participate in the OSLC session?
· If not, passes will be made available to the StC.
· Discuss at the next meeting.
2. Register for one main conference speaking slot - https://greenhouse.lotus.com/forms/anon/org/app/1b029636-6e7a-42a9-897a-88fd959ed6d3/launch/index.html?form=F_Form1
o OSLC Overview + Vision? (Rainer)
Minutes:
· Rainer has submitted it and Kalena confirmed that it’s been received. Any prominent speaker worthwhile to invite, that could for e.g. participate in the OSLC session?
· Abstract is due by the end of August.
· Kalena will confirm with the conference that there are no other concerns with the submission.
3. OSLC Steering Committee F2F
o Date, time, location
o Adjust November meeting date to align with F2F for those that will not be attending in-person.
Minutes:
· Wednesday November 16th at 3pm - 5pm is the current date. No charge for the room.
· Next meeting to discuss whether we should continue to have the F2F, depending on how many people will be in-person.
4. Community Meet-and-Greet reception event
o Date, time, location (tentatively Wed or Thurs evening)
o Budget pre-approvals for venue + snacks/refreshments
Minutes:
· Tuesday November 15th at 5:30pm – 7pm is the current date. Capacity of room requested is 40-50 people. No charge for the room.
· This overlaps with the wine+chocolates reception that is planned for 5pm – 6pm.
· Should consider using a cash-bar and ticket system for drinks to control costs, especially since we don’t know how many people will drop by.
Actions:
· [All] Think about top 3 objectives for this conference (reception + sessions + exhibits + etc), what things we can do or focus on to achieve those objectives, and identify data we’ll want to collect.
· Items in-progress or to be worked
o Session submissions – Kalena, Rainer
o Who’s attending?
§ Yes: Mark, Martin, Bill,
§ Likely: Rainer, Jim, Bola, Kalena (going to Voice)
§ Regrets: Mats, Andreas, Wesley, Nelson
o Communications WG
§ Session submissions – Kalena, Rainer
§ Exhibition booth details – Mark, Bill
· Intend to co-locate with Mentor and Tasktop booths to optimize OSLC-related discussions.
· Anything that needs budget approval --- e.g. giveaways, random draw prize?
§ As part of Silver Sponsorship:
· 40 word text on website
· Logo in onsite pocket guide
· ½ page ad space in pocket guide
· 10% registration discount for OASIS members via code “Oasis16” – need to share this with oslc-ms.
· OSLC Community Update by StC
o Timeframe options
§ Align with or immediately following the IBM CE Conference in November
§ 4Q 2016
o Last year’s update – http://youtu.be/Rtncf6S6w4c
Minutes:
· Should consider doing the community update as part of the CE/IoT OSLC session. We could record it and make it available on online.
· Consider taking this to a marketing company for a more professional recording. Bill indicated Mentor has in-house people that do this sort of thing and he’ll find-out what’s possible.
Actions:
· [Bill] What’s possible with Mentor in-house expertise and resources?
· Budget updates (if any) – Mark
Minutes:
· Budget items are related to conference planning and are covered in other sections already.
B. OSLC Integration Scenarios and Business Value (20 mins) -- Wesley
Minutes from last meeting:
· How can we drive adoption? The scenarios will play a key role here. (Reference Vision Executive Summary - http://open-services.net/wiki/steering-committee/Vision/). What integration scenarios can we posit along with OSLC solutions?
· [Jim] Multiple steps here. First, get all of our existing standards under OASIS to remove access barriers (in work). Secondly, present scenarios in conjunction with community participation. Finally, leverage Eclipse Lyo and other alternatives for helping users to get started immediately.
· [Martin] Need extra collateral to help people getting started (videos, etc.). How much work is required to just get started? It may depend on your starting point (e.g. do my applications already use delegated UIs, e.g.) We need to demonstrate quick success and turnaround. Reference implementation will make it hopefully easier to leverage the V3 implementation. Compiled code with V2 is doable, but hard to know all fields a priori without having to redeploy.
· We should be able to give people a quick 5-10 minute way to setup a compliant application. That would be great. Node.js application will be helpful.
· [Rainer] Consider the audience. We have vendors building commercial products as well as users building local adaptations. So we might need multiple examples for different purposes. We should discuss this topic in more detail when more StC members are available to participate.
· [Wesley] Let’s interview people. See who had adopted or is using OSLC and investigate in more detail where the blockers are, what is impeding adoption?
· [Jim] IBM has done some amount of looking into that internally.
o What are you using OSLC for?
o How is it helping you deliver Client value that you couldn’t do without it?
o What are the challenges and pain points you are experiencing?
o What do you need to address these challenges and improve client value?
o How can we help?
These are simple questions intended to stimulate open conversations. They are intended to guide the discussion scope without overly biasing the interviewee. Hopefully this will encourage discussions that might have been less predictable and help us gain better insight.
Minutes:
· Defer to next meeting.
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