Re: [wsdm] WSDM interop in GGF14

[James Bryce Clark <jamie.clark@oasis-open.org>]

     Fred raises some very intelligent issues about next steps.
     OASIS gets a lot of interest and questions about WSDM;  this seems 
likely to increase.  There are many other groups (inside and outside OASIS) 
that could be consumers of the methods.   There also are quite a few events 
in the months ahead where visibility of the work, through demos or 
otherwise, probably would promote adoption.  The announcement of the OASIS 
Standard approval gives you an opportunity that the TC or some of its 
members may wish to leverage.   Obviously OASIS staff has some experience 
in assisting with this.
     I suggest that it's time for a few of us to join a meeting of the TC 
and discuss how (using communication channels, events, demos, liaisons and 
other assets), we can assist with adoption and education around the 
approved specs.  I will confer with the TC chairs but probably will suggest 
that we attend one of the next few scheduled TC meetings.

     Best regards Jamie

~   James Bryce Clark
~   Director, Standards Development, OASIS
~   jamie.clark@oasis-open.org

At 05:56 PM 3/2/2005, Fred Maciel wrote:
>Hi,
>      I got a homework to think about doing the interop in GGF14. Here is 
> my opinion, written a bit in a hurry.
>      First of all, independently of GGF14, I think that there are two 
> things that we need to do:
>(1) Promote WSDM to everybody that's related to us: the Web services 
>community, the systems management community, the Grid community etc. (2) 
>Promote WSDM to the GGF (Grid community).
>      I think that the main objective of the public interop is (1). While 
> I think that GGF14 is at good place (Chicago) and has a good timing, not 
> all the people in (1) will come. In fact, GGF14 is only targeted at the 
> GGF WGs, not the Grid community in general. So we will need some 
> additional marketing
>to make it effective. I don't know how these things work, so I won't go 
>deeper into that one.
>      Almost independent of (1), there is (2). Yes, I really mean "almost 
> independent": even if we make an interop event in GGF14, it does not mean 
> that the GGF participants will come, especially if it's in a separate 
> room and/or in the tutorial/workshop day. So my idea is to get an 
> outreach session (keynote-like session, big auditorium, at a time that 
> not many other sessions are going on), and for instance show things 
> working through a GUI on the projector. (If we make it short, we might be 
> able to use a piece of the OGSA-WG outreach session, which is GGF prime 
> time). We can get also other sessions as a tutorial, like we did in 
> Hawaii, or to discuss technical stuff.
>      Opinions?
>Regards,
>Fred Maciel.