All members of The Open Group are members of either the Customer
Council or the Supplier Council (the "Members Councils").
In our all-members' meetings, the Customer Council and Supplier
Council join together to involve all members of The Open Group in
sharing issues and concerns that are of common interest - across all
Forums and Working Groups.
In this Conference, the Members Councils sponsored a
series of short (5-7 minutes) "spotlight" interludes for each
Forum and Working Group in The Open Group, in which the Chair (or other
nominee) of several Open Group Forums and Working Groups
was invited to respond to five standard questions which enabled them to
describe the value-add of their Forum/Working Group, and also to
give a glimpse of their Roadmap as defined by the Members
Councils.
The Members Councils
also arranged a Members Lunch on Tuesday January 29, in which an officer of the Council
explained the value-add that these Roadmaps provide to
members.
Summary
Following up from the previous Conference in Budapest
(October 2007), during the plenary sessions the
Members Councils
sponsored a series of short (5-7 minutes) "Forum/Working Group in the
spotlight" interludes, similar to that
performed in the Budapest Conference plenary by Chris Forde (Chair of
the Architecture Forum) and Allen Brown (President & CEO of The Open
Group). In each spotlight interlude, a member-representative or Chair of the following Forums
and Working Groups responded to five standard questions, including giving a
glimpse of their Councils-style Roadmap, and encouraged members to go to
the Members
Councils web site to find out more and get involved:
Monday January 28 (Moderator: Ben Calloni)
Service Oriented Architecture Working Group, Tony Carrato & Matts
Gejnevall
Tuesday January 29 (Moderator: Chris Greenslade)
Business Architecture Working Group, Dave van Gelder
Architecture Forum, Chris Forde
Adaptive Business Solutions Work Group, Allen Brown
Semantic Interoperability Working Group (including UDEF), Arnold van
Overeem & Ron Schuldt
Wednesday January 30 (Moderator: Ron Schuldt)
Security & Identity Management Forum, Mike Jerbic
Platform, Nick Stoughton
Real-Time & Embedded Systems Forum, Joe Bergmann
The standard questions, which were projected to avoid
repetition in each short "spotlight", were:
Q1: To set some context, what are the objectives of your Forum [Working Group], and why/how
does it add value?
Q2: What are the main issues the Forum [Working Group] is working on currently?
Q3: Over the past year, what stands out in your estimation as the most valuable experience or deliverable for your members?
Q4: What are the things that you would most like to see come out of the Forum [Working Group] in 2008?
Q5: How do you see your Roadmap for 2008, starting from this San Francisco meeting?
The roadmaps on the Members
Councils web site are available only to members. Roadmaps were presented by the UDEF
Working Group, the Semantic
Interoperability Working Group, the Architecture Forum, the Platform Forum, and the
Security & Identity Management Forum. The other Forums/Working
Groups are due
to deliver their Roadmaps.
We also held a Members' Lunch on Tuesday January 29, where
Chris Greenslade (Chair of the Supplier Council) gave a short presentation
explaining:
The role of the Councils, and their charters
Current progress with creating the Roadmaps for each Forum and
Working Group
The need for some Forums/Working Groups to create and/or complete their Roadmaps
The value these Roadmaps represent to every member
Summary of who's who as elected member-representatives on the Governing Board and in the Customer and Supplier Councils
Outputs
All objectives as specified in the agenda.
Next Steps
Follow-up with Forum/Working Group leaders to ensure Roadmaps are completed
and/or created and available to all members from the Members Councils
web site.
