Fwd: [college] Next president of the ObjectWeb College of Architects

[Alexandre Lefebvre <alexandre.lefebvre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I believe that this discussion should be more open, thus I'm posting 
this message to the architecture mailing list.
Sorry for the initial post to college only.

    alex

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Alexandre Lefebvre <alexandre.lefebvre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mer nov 26, 2003  09:35:00 Europe/Paris
> To: Emmanuel Cecchet <Emmanuel.Cecchet@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Philippe Merle <Philippe.Merle@xxxxxxx>, college@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [college] Next president of the ObjectWeb College of 
> Architects
>
> Emmanuel,
>
> could you precise your position about the current absolute and 
> complete mess regarding project hosting.
>
> To be more precise in my question, http://solutions.objectweb.org and 
> http://forge.objectweb.org/softwaremap/full_list.php give two 
> different lists of projects.
> It is, even for me, impossible to understand which of those projects 
> are simply hosted and do not commit to anything in terms of 
> architecture and which of those projects "play the game" of 
> contributing and following The ObjectWeb Architectural Vision.
>
> During the conference last week, several people commented that 
> ObjectWeb is looking more and more like a middleware sourceforge 
> hosting of all sorts of stuff, for which the only link is that they 
> can be categorized as middleware.
>
> What do you intend to do to solve this mess ?
>
>     alex
>
> On mercredi, nov 5, 2003, at 19:48 Europe/Paris, Emmanuel Cecchet 
> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I would like to volunteer to take over Philippe's position.
> >
> > My main proposals for the college are the following :
> > - identify existing architectural themes within ObjectWeb (such as 
> > workflow, transactions, ...)
> > - try to federate efforts around this themes,
> > - use these themes to evaluate new project creation demands and 
> > identify new contributions, overlap and possible synergies,
> > - target architectural meetings on specific topics rather than an 
> > overall project review: it could take the form of specialized 
> > workshops (I think the Fractal workshop was a great experience)
> > - build a knowledge base on each architectural theme (a starting 
> > point could be the ObjectWeb architecture workshops material and 
> > outcome) so that the ObjectWeb's college of architects could expose 
> > materials about its view on specific themes (state of the art, 
> > current challenges, ...).
> >
> > If you don't share this vision, please post to the list since I think 
> > this should be a common effort that can only be achieved with the 
> > cooperation of all of us. If someone else share these ideas and would 
> > like to volunteer as president, I will encourage him to do so and ask 
> > you all to vote for him.
> >
> > See you at the ObjectWeb conference,
> > Emmanuel
> >
> > --
> > ************************************************
> > Emmanuel Cecchet
> > Research Scientist, INRIA Rhône-Alpes
> > SARDES Project (http://sardes.inrialpes.fr)
> > phone : +33 (0)4 76 61 52 48 (GMT+1)
> > fax   : +33 (0)4 76 61 52 52
> > email : Emmanuel.Cecchet@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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> >
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>
>
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