Re: [emergency] XML-2004

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Title: Re: [emergency] XML-2004

Hi Everyone,

I wish I could have stayed for the dinner and planning session, but I can probably help pulbicize the interop demo. However, as you might want to consider as you move forward, there is a price to be paid for being well-received. More work, yesterday. I now have a Monday repeat performance, with the agency-specific references and more work I am constrained from speaking about now. Not unusual, as many of you know.

So I will do my best to publicize this, so if you think you have a viable confirmation list, Elysa, please let me know and I will announce it Monday afternoon during my remote reprise of the presentation and demonstration I gave Tuesday. For those of you who are local to DC, this reprise is on the agenda for the Fifth Quarterly Emerging Technology Components Conference at MITRE Corp.

http://www.componenttechnology.org/Emerging/October_2004/

Looks like a busy weekend.

Note: depending of schedules of other parties, I may not be able to join the telecons Tuesday, but I'm lobbying to push this other thing to Wednesday, if possible, which conflicts with only one TC meeting instead of two SC meetings. I will discover the details Monday.

Ciao,

Rex

At 4:17 PM -0500 10/22/04, Elysa Jones wrote:

> Greetings all,
>
> It was a pleasure to meet and have dinner with some of you in DC
> earlier this week.  In attendance were Michelle Raymond, Tom
> Merkle, Gary Ham, Art Botterell, Kwasi Speede and Elysa Jones. 
> In addition to these players, IEM and ETeam have expressed an interest
> in participating in the  demonstration.  At the meeting we
> discussed the upcoming XML-2004 demonstration to be held November 17,
> 2004 at the Marriott Wardman Park.  It was a good discussion
> where we identified the anticipated focus of the demonstration. 
> We discussed who would be the actual audience to whom we intend to
> demonstrate CAP.  It is clear that not many XML2004 conference
> attendees are really in the market for the public safety systems we
> represent.  However, since the venue is in the DC area and we
> could invite some of the public and private sector that would have an
> interest, it would be a reasonable thing to pursue.  The
> anticipated focus would be - what is the return on investment the
> Government is likely to achieve based on the work of interoperability
> standards in emergency management?  If there is no value to the
> funding sources, any number of demonstrations will not help our
> cause.
>
> As many of you may recall, we did a demonstration at the same hotel in
> Sept of 2003 with CAP during the Global Homeland Security Conference. 
> We were all glad that we set up our systems and they played together. 
> However, there was no follow on activity, no press releases, etc.
>
> We further discussed a very real scenario based on a the chemical
> weapons incinerator activity currently ongoing in Anniston, Alabama. 
> All agreed that such a scenario could gain high visibility and also
> allow those with products based on the CAP XML spec to be
> demonstrated.  We would like this to be a highly visible event
> with as much publicity as we can arouse.  We would all like to
> see the standards gain acceptance and to show the Department of
> Homeland Security that via these standards the cause of better
> information to the right place can improve the work done by emergency
> managers.  OASIS is our vehicle to do this.  The value of
> OASIS as our international body under which we develop is also
> advanced with the real world demonstrations.  Members of the
> meeting raised some valuable questions for which I now have
> answers:
>
> There will be a cost to the participants as follows:
> 1.  You may attend the entire conference for 50% of the
> conference registration fee.  That is $400 for IDEAlliance
> members and $600 for non-members.  However, if you are going to
> just be a part of the interop demonstrations, you may get an
> "Expo only" pass (which includes the Keynotes) for free. 
> Customers and contacts can also get this type pass to attend the
> interop demos.  Everyone must register at 
> http://www.xmlconference.org/xmlusa/2004/registration.html by 7
> November.
> 2.  OASIS planners have gathered all
> the expenses for the six OASIS InterOps and each participant will be
> responsible for $750.00 to be applied to the total to offset the
> expenses of the InterOps (projectors, screens, internet, etc.).
>
> Given that cost, I need to know if you are still interested in
> participating.  Please let me hear from you ASAP.  If I can
> get the information to OASIS by Monday 10/25, they will be able to
> highlight our demo in the OASIS News next week.  If you have any
> ideas of ways we can increase the visibility of our demonstration,
> please let me know.  I will proceed with the scenario write up
> this weekend as if we are going to proceed.
>
> Thank you for your timely comments,
> Elysa Jones
> Chair, EM-TC
>
>
>
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