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Subject: [xtm-wg] Notes of Marketing Committee Teleconference
I volunteered to take notes of our conference call. Here are my notes. I have written down the names of the participants below. In some cases I did not recognize the people's voices or remember their names, I may have confused people. Quotes are just meant to capture the spirit of the conversation, they may be inaccurate or misattributed. Andrius Kulikauskas ********************************* Participants: Paul Conn Jason Markos Daryl Grecich Adrian Rivers Dianne Kennedy Pam Gennusa Andrius Kulikauskas ********************************* Main decisions: We have agreed to serve as members of the marketing committee. Jason Markos has agreed to serve as our acting chair for three months. XML for TopicMaps special interest day, designed to have a lot of activity and many, many people involved: 9:00-9:15 Welcome 9:15-9:45 TAO of Topic Maps by Steve Pepper 9:45-10:30 Three software presentations, 15 min each. Break 11:00-11:45 Market applications 11:45-12:15 Expert panel on how XTM compares with existing standards, history of standards. 12:15-12:30 Invitations to Birds of Feather meetings at lunch, description of afternoon program. Lunch and Birds of Feather meetings 2:00-4:00 User panel, Announcement of XTM, Walkthrough of standard, QandA with the entire authoring group 4:00-... Refreshments and open space discussion where areas are set aside, both pre-determined and spontaneous, for discussion topics, and also vendors. ********************************* Notes of conversation ********************************* Dianne: What's the goal for today? Set up the program for the Special Interest Day. There was a meeting at a lunch in Montreal that came up with an agenda. Interoperability demonstration, product demonstrations are premature. XTM spec will be different than ISO spec. Better to do the demonstrations in March. Current goal is to reveal the spec. Intro of who we are and who are our sponsors. Then have a brief introduction of TopicMaps by Steve Pepper, The TAO of Topic Maps. Adapt as half an hour presentation. Jason: Also,What TopicMaps means for Knowledge Management? Question: Do we want to have other groups that we reach out to? What about publishers? Pam: Talk on broader question, What do TopicMaps means for navigation and search? Jason: TopicMaps as a substitute for traditional search, a richer way of searching, by managing content. Dianne: We want to appeal to a large audience and many different areas. Will Knowledge Management be of interest to Portal makers/users? Pam: What does TopicMaps.Org want to achieve? Dianne: People attending already have an interest, they also have the opportunity to take the tutorials. We need to provide unique information that helps market TopicMaps, but not treading on the tutorials. Our idea was to have one introduction to TopicMaps, but not go into length into the concepts. Jason: Showing its validity and usefulness, showing its reality and software. Dianne: Also, this is a launch for XML Topic Maps. Andrius: Show differences between ISO and XTM? Dianne: A history, a timeline of where we've been, would be good. Pam: Or will these be webheads who don't care about ISO? Dianne: Timeline could be short, five or ten minutes. Jason: That could be part of the introduction. Dianne: A brief walk through of the XTM spec. Dianne: Would like the spec available on CD or printed at the conference? Dianne: We need to think about press releases. Pam: Is this a Topic Maps or XTM special interest day? Paul: Primarily XTM. Paul: People will want to see demonstrations. Dianne: Audience will be understanding if products aren't compliant just yet. They want to see that there are real products. Question: What vendors are lined up? Diane: I don't know. Pam: We want to. Diane: Options: Early morning. Andrius: Have open space conversations. Adrian: Have general presentations by vendors, there probably won't be many. Dianne: Have poster sessions on different topics. A call for posters. Adrian: Be able to talk about how to apply this to a particular domain. Dianne: A mixture between poster and birds of the feather. Pam: We'd have to worry about chairs: use one set up in the morning, one set up in the afternoon. Pam: In the morning, after intro and presentations, have QandA with all of the authors. Dianne: Have Bird of a Feather sessions at lunch. Andrius: Have each BoF lead a conversation at the open space afternoon. Adrian: Authors should be all spread out, not with each other. Jason: We should do the differences between XTM and ISO before the questions, so they don't focus on that. Andrius: Have demonstrations right after introduction, before questions. Andrius: Have intro, demos in the morning, save "release" for the afternoon. Pam: This would dispel problem of satisfying spec, first we do demos, then we announce. Pam: This also makes a nice audience for people who might not be technical, techies stay for afternoon. Paul: Could have release at end. Andrius: Ending with open space could be for the diehards. Dianne: Half hour break in the morning: 10:30-11:00. Afternoon break: 3:30-4:00. We don't have to break like that. Dianne: Have announcement at 2:00. Paul: Have walk through during announcement? Dianne: Yes. Dianne: Before lunch, have relationship with other standards. Pam: Steve Newcomb? Paul: Eric Freese did a good job with RDF. Dianne: This could generate excitement. Andrius: We could have a panel. Jason: Get user. Jason: Show it's real. Andrius: Can we have vendors work with users? Dianne: Have users in the authoring group explain why their interested. Dianne: Before lunch have a users panel. Andrius: Show we have a community: users panel, standards panel. Pam: So: welcome 15 min. TAO 30 min. software 3x15min. break at 10:30-11:00, market applications 45min. panel on standards (including discussion of history) 30min. BoF descriptions, announcement 15min. After lunch: user panel 45min., announcement 45 walk through QandA refreshments at open space, vendor areas and topic areas. Dianne: have user stories along with announcement for better press. Paul: Let's elect a chair. We'd like to have a kiosk for TopicMaps staffed by people. This will require funding, we've had noone step forward. Jason: I volunteer. I can be acting chair for three months. We're all the initial members. AGREED. Paul: We need a TopicMaps.Org website built. Once we can get a marketing egroup set up. Not having a website when our name is TopicMaps.Org is a serious error. -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> eGroups eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. 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