All Members Meeting

Objective of Meeting

All Members of The Open Group are members of either the Customer Council or the Supplier Council.

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 Council sponsored a series of short (5-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 highlight their activities which explain the value-add of their Forum/Working Group to Open Group members, and also to give a glimpse of their forward plans and deliverables (Roadmap) as defined by the Members Councils.

The Members Councils also arranged a Members Lunch on the Tuesday to explain the value-add that the Members Councils are aiming to deliver to the whole membership.

Summary

Continuing the Members Councils sponsored 5-minute "Spotlight" interludes first introduced during plenary sessions in the San Francisco (January 2008) conference, a member-representative or Chair of the following Forums and Working Groups presented an outline of their Councils-style Roadmap, highlighting their key achievements and main work items. Their Roadmaps are all available on the Members Councils web site at www.opengroup.org/members_council:

• Spotlight: Semantic Interoperability
• Spotlight: Architecture Forum
• Spotlight: Business Architecture Work Group
• Spotlight: SOA Work Group
• Spotlight: Real Time and Embedded Systems Forum
• Spotlight: ITAC Work Group
• Spotlight: Security Forum
• Spotlight: Directed

During the Members Lunch on Tuesday, Ben Calloni reminded members of the value-add that these Roadmaps provide to members, in the way they enable all members to see at a glance what work is underway in any of the Open Group's Forums and Work Groups, so they can see at a glance what work is of interest to them and their business, and when they might find it most opportune to visit that Forum or Working Group to participate in shaping the deliverable.

Ben also pointed out that the Members Councils have put together a short questionnaire asking members for their feedback on them what top three activities they feel would increase the value of their membership and involvement with The Open Group. The Members Councils officers will then review this feedback and see how we might add new value.

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 page.

Links

See above.