BoF: Forums Coordination

Objective of Meeting

The aim of this BoF was to follow up the ideas generated from the Members' Meeting on Improving the Value of Membership. The agenda was:

• To assess the ideas to date
• To gather additional ideas
• To consider "next steps"
• To initiate actions to implement the agreed next steps

The session was attended by Forum Chairs, Co-Chairs, and Vice-Chairs, Forum Directors, and some Board members (including Carl Bunje, Chris Greenslade, Jim Bell, and Alan Doniger).

Summary

The ideas collected in San Francisco and Dublin were presented as summary slides.

Carl invited proposals for new ideas and suggestions on what actions might be taken to implement existing ideas.

Some of the suggestions discussed were as follows:

• Communication of the Board strategy to Forum leaders
• Ensure Forum leaders channel feedback through Board member representatives (via Forum Vice-Chairs)
• Arrange a further BoF (in New York)  involving Forum Vice-Chairs and Board members to present the Board strategy and address dissemination of the strategy
• Clarify some governance issues, such as the role of The Open Group staff in Forums, what members are empowered to decide, etc.
• Address recurring queries by developing an FAQ and set of Forum best practices
• Create a cross-Forum glossary with contributions from all Forums
• Create a meta-SIB - a library of building blocks - with contributions from all Forums
• Rethink scheduling of members versus non-member meetings - there is no better message to a non-member than strong endorsement of the value of membership from existing members

Outputs

A set of actions were put together, to be undertaken by volunteers.

Next Steps

Carl Bunje and Ian Dobson will follow up with the volunteers who undertook the actions to get this important initiative underway.

Links

None.