OSLC Steering Committee (SC) Meeting 1703 March 21, 2017

OSLC Steering Committee (SC) Meeting 1703 – March 21, 2017

Agenda

Attendees:  SC Voting Members: o Andreas Keis [x], Bill Chown [ ], Bola Robiti [ ], Jim Amsden [x], Mark Schulte [ ], Martin Sarabura [x], Mats Berglund [ ], Rainer Ersch [x], Wesley Coelho [x]  SC Staff Members: Nelson Jean [x]  OASIS Staff: Jane Harnad [ ], Scott McGrath [ ]  Additional Attendees: Kalena Kelly [x]

# Area Topics

1 General A. Proposal to restructure OSLC community activities and Business management (10 mins) – Bill (25 mins) Discussion:  OSLC community / communications and proposal by Axel Reichwein (koneksys.com), who offered to contribute effort and resources to hire a full-time person to contribute to the OSLC community. o Axel is not seeking anything in return.  At the January 2017 SC meeting, it was agreed to pursue this further, with the initial step of Rainer/Axel discussing the proposal.  Status of discussions with Axel on next steps.

Minutes:

 Bill wasn’t available and this topic was deferred.

B. Financials (5 mins) – Mark  2017 spend plan of $9K with carry-over of $27K.

Discussion:

 Anything noteworthy this month? Minutes:

 Mark wasn’t available but Kalena brought-forward a suggestion to commemorate and advertise OSLC’s 10th year anniversary through, for e.g., things we could giveaway at conferences.  Funding amount will depend on cost/benefit.  Next step: identify options and associated price-points, and we can discuss at the next SC meeting.

Actions:

 [Communications WG] Prepare options for discussion at the next SC meeting.

C. Invitation for David G. Sherburne to join a future SC meeting (10 mins) – Rainer Discussion:

 David Sherburne is Executive Director of Carestream Health and wrote this article – Integrated Lifecycle Management Creating Flow for Digital Transformation - http://product-lifecycle- management.cioreview.com/cxoinsight/integrated-lifecycle- management-creating-flow-for-digital-transformation-nid-23945-cid- 88.html  Article refers to “Integrated Lifecycle Management” and mentions OSLC as an integration technology.  Proposal to invite David to a future SC meeting.  Planning: o Date o Objectives and questions – making the most of this opportunity beyond having a general discussion.

Minutes:

 David is at the ACE Conference (3/21-3/23) and so is Wesley. Wesley will attempt to connect with David at the conference and extend the invitation to attend a future SC meeting.  Did not discuss specific objectives other than getting a view on what his organization is planning to do in ILM.  Post meeting: Wesley has invited David to the April SC meeting. 2 TCs A. OSLC Core, CCM and CM Specification status (5 mins) – Jim Discussion: (5 mins)  In the Domains TC, there is a github site supported by OASIS and there are a lot of documents in that repo that need editing and migration. No domain knowledge is required. Looking for suggestions on how to do this: 1. Call for volunteers from the OSLC MS. 2. Outsource the work with some funding 3. Could be a part of Axel’s proposal in Topic 1A

 Decision from last meeting was to pursue #1 first.  Regardless, need to close with OASIS on whether there are intellectual property considerations for those contributing to specs even in an editor role.  Status update

Minutes:

 Core 3.0 completed 2nd public review.  TRS is out for TC review.  CM is ready to for public review shortly.  Jim is waiting for Chet to reply on IP-related considerations for anyone helping out the editing of specifications.

3 OSLC A. How can we help drive greater adoption of OSLC (15 mins) – Initiatives Wesley, Martin

(30 mins) Discussion:  How can we drive adoption?

  Adoption Plan – thoughts o o Different types of challenges . Customer challenges . Vendor challenges . Existing solutions and gaps o Propose to start with customer community, and describe challenges, existing solutions/gaps from their perspective. We can then articulate the commercial value of addressing gaps in the vendor community.  Highlights from last meeting: o Who to focus on – vendors and customers for sure. What about SIs? Or are SIs a small part of the ecosystem of commercial products that are designed to be generally applicable and have built-in integrations. o Where should OSLC play in the spectrum of big data through to IoT? Is there an area that is underserved?

Minutes:

 Wesley presented this document:

o  Good to explore ways to apply OSLC in new domains. A dedicated discussion to be setup in the next 2 weeks.

B. Possible partnership / liaison with Industrial Internet Consortium (15 mins) – Rainer

 Similar in concept to ProSTEP iViP partnership -- what have we learned and gained from that partnership?

 Background and opportunities for the propose partnership with IIC  Consider adding Industrial Internet Innovation Forum to our event list.

Minutes:

 Rainer indicated not much progress to date and that the next action is for Mark to reach-out and connect with them.

4 WGs / UGs A. OSLC Communications WG (10 mins) – Kalena (10 mins) Discussion:  Thoughts on conferences for 2017 and what to get on the list for planning?  OSLC Community Update by StC o Need to plan for this in 2017 o FYI: Last year’s update – http://youtu.be/Rtncf6S6w4c

>> Topics: - first OSLC specification + spec status update (Jim) - Vision (Jim, Kalena) - Extending our community to new areas - Concept of integrated lifecycle management - IoT or XCode initiatives - 10th anniversary - help from community

apr 11 – commwg meeting – create ppt template

discuss at next SC meeting maybe do this in june

Minutes:

 Potential topics to include in the Community Update: o OSLC specification status o Vision o Extending our OSLC community to new areas. o Initiatives o 10th anniversary o Opportunities for community to help (e.g. editing of specs, etc). o ???

Actions:  [Communications WG] Create a PowerPoint template containing topic sections. We will review at the next meeting and assign owners for each section.

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