Proposal for CMIS Educational / Promotional Activities

[Karsten Eberding <karsten@eberding.eu>]

Hello,

as discussed in the last call, here are a three specific proposals for 
educational and promotional activities around CMIS.

A) Writing a book on CMIS, draft title is "A Guide to CMIS"
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Target audience: solution architects, project managers, decision makers 
for ECM products, product managers
(not a detailed programmer's guide for actual implementations, maybe 
this would be of interest too?)

Proposed Chapters:
1) History
  - original intentions, initiating companies, expected benefits
  - relationship with other standards (ODMA, JCR, WebDAV)
  - common use cases

2) Elements of the standard (general description, not a detailed 
programmer's guide)
  - domain model
  - bindings

3) Concepts for Implementing CMIS servers
  - authentication
  - access control and security
  - queries and full-text search
  - mapping of optional elements
  - frameworks and tools for implementation and test (Apache Chemistry, 
TCK)

4) Concepts for Implementing CMIS clients
  - example implementation
  - handling of optional components
  - sample implementations (mostly open source)

5) Customer Success Stories
  - 2-3 case studies, provided by interested vendors participating in 
the CMIS TC

6) Outlook on CMIS 1.1 and 2.0

This is a major effort. I would be willing to work on this, provided 
there is enough interest from the TC and participating vendors, as 
measured in either
a) sponsorships, so the final book can be given out for free (eBook) or 
very low cost (printed), or
b) commitment from vendors to buy a certain number of books
Details should be discussed


B) Success Stories Booklet
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Create a collection of success stories, from customers or partners who 
have successfully implemented CMIS. Individual success stories would 
need to come from vendors, I would collect them and combine them into an 
appropriate format.
Target audience are interested customers and partners who want to see 
how CMIS impacts the market and creates benefits for all participants.
The final document should be available for free download from OASIS, as 
well as interested TC members


C) Participation in ECM events and conferences
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For the upcoming DMS Expo in October in Stuttgart, Germany, we can 
organize a "CMIS booth", allowing live demos and presentations of 
various application / repository combinations from participating 
vendors. This would be relatively low cost (as many vendors share the 
booth), and could create a lot of visibility for CMIS. If successful, 
this could be repeated in other countries (eg AIIM conference and similar)


Interoperability should be promoted from multiple vendors together. All 
proposals include participation from multiple vendors, which reduces 
cost and effort for every single vendor while underlining the commitment 
to participate in CMIS.

We can also discuss other activities, like Webinars, videos, white 
papers and others, but I hope the above list gives a starting point.

thanks

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Karsten Eberding

St.-Martin-Str. 19
85604 Zorneding

Phone +49 171 3090201
Mail karsten@eberding.eu