Steering Committee Minutes 2007-09-07

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(These minutes have been approved.)

Contents

OpenAjax Alliance Steering Committee meeting minutes 2007-09-07

Attendees

  • IBM/David Boloker
  • ZEND/Michael Pinette
  • TIBCO/Kevin Hakman
  • ZIMBRA/Scott Dietzen
  • ECLIPSE/Mike Milinkovich
  • Jon Ferraiolo

(Coach was in flight, Alex was giving a talk at a conference)

Original Agenda

  • Agenda
    • Our first individual to go through the individual member process
      • Matthias Hertel, Ajax open source programmer, works for Deutsche Bank
      • Has sent in employer consent form. I'm still waiting on Members Agreement
      • Any comments?
    • AJAXWorld
      • What's our message? (1 year since Web site launch, SC election, etc.)
      • Promotional materials
        • I want to give up on stickers. I can explain why if anyone is interested.
        • t-shirts?
    • Election (not sure if there is anything new here)
    • InteropFest status
      • As of this moment, 7 toolkits listed (Dojo, Lightstreamer, Prototype, Scriptaculous, Vili, YUI, Ext)
      • Expect member contributions that use DWR, GI, XAP, SoftwareAG, OAT.
      • Expect Jon to contribute an example that uses JQuery and GWT.
    • F2F
    • Hub 1.1
      • By Friday I should have a good understanding of SMash source code, such as how big it is and what server-side requirements are necessary. Would be good to cross-educate and discuss, particularly with Kevin and Coach. (Unfortunately, no Alex - see below)

Minutes

Topic: First individual to go through the individual member process

Jon: We have a developer from Deutschebank who found it easier to get his employer to sign the consent form rather than the members agreement. I have the signed consent form but no members agreement yet. He has already submitted proposals privately to some of the key people at OpenAjax and works on open source ajax projects. I believe he meets our minimal criteria and recommend that he be approved, but only once I receive his members agreement.

MikeM: Don't we have certain requirements on individuals?

Jon: Yes. Just either be a key member of the Ajax community or has important skills. I believe he has fulfills these requirements. But I am also interested because we need more people from the "user" community versus being too loaded up with vendors.

(everyone agrees that it makes sense to approve his membership)

Topic: AJAXWorld

Jon: What's our message at the conference in case press wants to talk to any of us?

David: Depending on how you decide we started, it's the one year anniversary. Should engage with the press and talk about

  • interoperability of multiple toolkits
  • starting to get message out about what Ajax is and isn't
  • have produced 5 white papers fulfilling our educational mission. 5 papers is excellent.
  • developed the OpenAjax Conformance trust mark
  • Hub and InteropFest

Clear track record and clear set of next steps to take.

Kevin: A key next step is mobile. We have a collection of key players at the same table.

Jon: The joint W3C/OpenAjax workshop is an early step.

David: We are doing a good job with Ajax on the desktop and working on the problems there. But in mobile do we want to make a statement for full Web application platform just like the desktop? My opinion is yes. Everyone else?

MikeP: What timeline are you thinking?

David: 3-5 years

Scott: We see it as extending the internet to mobile, not something different, so I agree.

David: People should get up and say it.

Jon: I can say that on Sept 28 when I get to do my introductory comments at the workshop.

David: OK. Key message is converged device.

Topic: Stickers on badges

Jon: I want to give up on this. sys-con leadership has changed. Don't want to rock any boats.

(no objections)

Topic: Election

Jon: We've talked about this before. Nothing big and new. I have the web applications almost working. Should be ready early next week. I propose that nominations open up next week. That gives almost 3 weeks for people to figure out if they want to nominate themselves.

(no objections)

Topic: InteropFest

Jon: About 7 applications and about 9 toolkits so far. About an equal number of additional ones promised. I think we are in very good shape. Probably between 18 and 25 toolkits will be represented.

David: That's excellent.

Topic: F2F

Jon: I now have a fleshed out agenda.

MikeP: More that 1 day of topics.

Jon: We will have to move quickly.

(no comments on the list of topics)

Topic: Next meeting

11am PT on Friday Sept 21

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