RE: [xtm-wg] Notes of Marketing Committee Teleconference - mondeca product presentation ?

["Jean Delahousse" <jean.delahousse@mondeca.com>]

Hello,

I see in the minutes that a part of the morning activities will be the
presentation of 3 topic map softwares, as the products name aren't mentioned
I don't know if you let a space for Mondeca's Topic Map Navigator. If not
could you do so, we work hard to get the soft ready for that day.

Can you confirm.

Thanks a lot

Sincerely

Jean Delahousse
CEO Mondeca
Mobile : +33(0)6 16 90 73 95
Tel : +33(0)1 47 46 18 89
Fax : +33(0)1 47 46 01 09
www.mondeca.com

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Andrius Kulikauskas [mailto:ms@ms.lt]
> Envoyé : jeudi 2 novembre 2000 19:20
> À : xtm-wg@egroups.com
> Objet : [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.
>
>
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