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Subject: Re: [cmis] From Plugfest to PlugParty?


Jens, this is a great idea.

David, thank you for the invite. I can attend the Basel PlugParty in  
person.

I would suggest two days to cover the various combinations of server,  
client and binding.

Regards,
Dave


On 11 Mar 2009, at 09:30, David Nuescheler wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> thanks to Jens for the message and the initiative.
>
> As mentioned, I would like to cordially invite everybody to Basel.
> We will also try to have as much of an open network infrastructure  
> as possible
> so we both connect and being connected to so people that cannot attend
> in person will also be able to participate.
>
> For the sake of simplicity we would select one or two days out
> of the April Date that originally won the ballot. I think this was
> 28-30 of April.
> Please let me know if you would prefer one or two days.
>
>
> regards,
> david
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Jens Hübel <jhuebel@opentext.com>  
> wrote:
>> Hi TC,
>>
>>
>>
>> after our call yesterday we had a couple of discussions today about  
>> the
>> impact of not having a face-to-face meeting this spring. I fully  
>> understand
>> the situation in which we are, but I also see the high risk not  
>> getting the
>> spec ready in the proposed time frame. We also will miss a lot of
>> interoperability experience from a PlugFest.
>>
>>
>>
>> The idea of hosting our servers and apps in a public environment is  
>> an
>> excellent way to go forward. However at least I saw the real value  
>> of the
>> last PlugFest we had in the ability to talk to developers, to look  
>> at a call
>> and its parameters and to set a breakpoint in the server to check  
>> what's
>> wrong. All this is not possible in a remote environment. Some  
>> comments
>> yesterday in the call went into the same direction. The PlugFest  
>> does not
>> require a quorum, it's more an informal way for getting feedback and
>> improving the spec. So in my opinion we should think about other  
>> options as
>> well.
>>
>>
>>
>> I would like to come up with an additional suggestion to the  
>> decisions we
>> already have made. We have a couple of implementations/prototypes  
>> in Europe
>> as well as in America. We could reduce travel costs by making the  
>> interop
>> tests more a local event. It is definitely not to exclude someone  
>> from
>> anything. Everybody would be welcome to participate. I think it  
>> would be
>> just better to have such smaller events than nothing. My hope would  
>> be that
>> more people easier could get sponsoring for a local trip. Because  
>> of the
>> limited scope we might reduce the duration to perhaps 2 days (to be
>> discussed). Last not least CMIS probably would get much more public
>> awareness for such an event than for the remote tests.
>>
>>
>>
>> "Fest" is the German word  for a more official kind of celebration  
>> (like a
>> marriage). We use "Party" for the more informal event on a Saturday  
>> evening.
>> So why not make a "PlugParty" if we can't get the full PlugFest?
>>
>>
>>
>> For the Europeans my first proposal would be to keep the proposed  
>> schedule
>> and location (David Nuescheler from Day would be willing to host  
>> such an
>> event as well… Thanks David!). Perhaps someone would be willing to  
>> setup
>> something similar somewhere in the U.S.
>>
>>
>>
>> Does this make any sense? Comments?
>>
>>
>>
>> And if there are companies who would be willing to attend a such a
>> downscaled event in Europe please reply to this list.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks Jens
>>
>>
>
>
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