RE: [cmis] Proposal for CMIS Educational / Promotional Activities

[Jens Hübel <jhuebel@opentext.com>]

Not directly related to Karsten's proposal but definitely worth taking a look is this one here:
http://consultation.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/openstandards/

Some quotes:
"The Cabinet Office will mandate particular open standards and profiles to be used within common government contexts to ensure that open interfaces and interoperability are achieved across central government. (Profiles define subsets or combinations of standards that have a specific scope and deliver a defined function whilst conforming to the related standards.) An Open Standards Board is being set up to govern this process."

"Note that the selection of particular standards for specific interoperability or security challenges will be covered on an ongoing basis through informal consultations, available publicly through an online Standards Hub. Selection of specific standards is not covered by the Open Standards: Open Opportunities consultation."

Perhaps also this one here on EU level:
http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7407.html

Not sure what this means for our CMIS Educational / Promotional Activities but these initiatives are probably something we should not ignore. Looking at the UK proposal 
"as a whole have been implemented and shared under different development approaches and on a number of platforms from more than one supplier, demonstrating interoperability and platform/vendor independence;"
the proposal below is very close to this requirement.

Jens


-----Original Message-----
From: cmis@lists.oasis-open.org [mailto:cmis@lists.oasis-open.org] On Behalf Of Karsten Eberding
Sent: Montag, 9. April 2012 22:50
To: cmis@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [cmis] Proposal for CMIS Educational / Promotional Activities

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 ============================= 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

--
Karsten Eberding

St.-Martin-Str. 19
85604 Zorneding

Phone +49 171 3090201
Mail karsten@eberding.eu


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