All the presentations given in this meeting are available here.
The chair of the Customer Council introduced the meeting.
He first summarized the role of the Customer and Supplier Councils:
- They both facilitate cross-forum communication and operation, and communication between
the Member Forums and the Governing Board.
- The Customer Council represents user-members' interests and expectations, presenting
requirements (for IT solutions) to the vendor community, and facilitating definition of
real requirements.
- The Supplier Council represents vendors' viewpoints and expectations, responding to
user requirements, and explaining their product strategies.
He then highlighted the main changes to the Customer and Supplier Councils charters:
- Charters are available via links at www.opengroup.org/customer_council
and www.opengroup.org/supplier_council.
- Main impacts are:
- Three-year cycle (rather than two-year term) for election of each of the
three customer-member governors; provides for continuity in the Governing Board, by avoiding
possible change of all three customer-member governors at the same time.
- Matching three-year term (rather than two-year term) for the one
Supplier-Member governor.
- No essential change to representation on the Governing Board - the governance model for
member representation remains unchanged.
- The rationale for three customer representatives versus one supplier-governor representative on
the Governing Board is to balance the dominance of suppliers on the Governing Board.
He followed this by introducing the newly-elected officers - Chairs and Vice-Chairs -
of the two Councils, and noted that these Councils are looking to strengthen their links
with each Forum, so volunteers interested in acting as member-liaison links between
their Forum and one or other of the Councils are welcome.
Leaders of the Working Groups operating under the Councils then gave their reports.
These are captured in the slide presentation set for this meeting.
The last item on the agenda - an open slot allocated for members to raise any issues or
concerns that impact cross-forum or Forums-Governing Board relationships - brought no
discussion points forward.
