Re: [tosca] TOSCA TC Nomination - Paul Lipton (CA Technology)

[Simon D Moser <SMOSER@de.ibm.com>]

Hi all,

having been one of the co-chairs of the consortium in the
pre-standardisation phase, I would like to continue that work also under
the umbrella of OASIS and formally act as a chair of the TOSCA TC.  Having
said that, I am also a strong supporter of the co-chair model and I would
be delighted to work together with Paul or any other candidate on this
subject. For those who do not know (or haven't been working with me in some
form in the past), I'll attach a little backgrounder for myself:

I am currently a lead architect in IBM's Cloud Initiative, focussing on
cloud management systems using portable cloud services. I am responsible
for enabling various IBM offerings in that space to support standardised
cloud services. Prior to this, I have been an architect in IBMs WebSphere
Process Server product family, focussing on Business Process Technologies
like WS-BPEL and BPMN. I represented IBM at various technology
standardisation committees at OASIS (WS-BPEL, SCA-BPEL), where I became
familiar with the duties of committee chairs and have been acting as one of
the co-chairs in the TOSCA pre-standardisation phase. In parallel, I was
the project lead and chief software engineer for the Open Source WS-BPEL
Designer Project at the Eclipse Foundation, and I am still a lecturer at
the University of Jena, Germany.

I hope you will seriously consider my candidacy, too, and I am looking
forward to working with all of you on the TOSCA Technical Committee.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards

Simon Moser

Cloud Computing Architect
Dept. C453, IBM Research & Development Boeblingen

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From:	"Lipton, Paul C" <Paul.Lipton@ca.com>
To:	"tosca@lists.oasis-open.org" <tosca@lists.oasis-open.org>
Date:	06.12.2011 02:54
Subject:	[tosca] TOSCA TC Nomination - Paul Lipton (CA Technology)
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Hi all,

Briefly then, it has been a privilege to serve the TOSCA TC as OASIS
Convener. I believe that my past experience as a member of the OASIS Board
of Directors (and on Boards such as the Eclipse Foundation and DMTF), as
well as my service on the OASIS TC Process Committee, would enable me to
help speed our progress, while minimizing the risk of costly mistakes in
procedure that could come back to "bite us."

Just as important, it is clear that we have a large and diverse group in
this TC, no doubt with many smart and opinionated people. In my experience
working in standards development in many organizations, a large group
thrives and moves forward when an experienced Chair creates an environment
that enables decisions to be made efficiently based on mutual respect,
trust, and transparency. As the former Chair of the OASIS Governance
Committee, with responsibilities that covered the very bylaws that govern
OASIS, and for those that already know me, that is simply the only way I
operate. I hope you will seriously consider my candidacy.

By the way, I believe that the co-chair model is almost always the most
effective, if only from the perspective of additional coverage and sharing
of the workload. Presuming that there will be at least two candidates,
expect me to make a motion that we elect two co-chairs, rather than use a
single chair or a primary/alternate model (unless somebody else makes that
motion first)! :-)

In any case, I am looking forward to an worthwhile and productive Technical
Committee.

Best regards,
Paul

Paul Lipton
CA Technologies
VP, Industry Standards and Open Source
Member, CA Council for Technical Excellence
Office Phone: +1 609 583-9718
Mobile: +1 267 987-6887
Email: paul.lipton@ca.com

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