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

[Alexandre Lefebvre <alexandre.lefebvre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: Philippe Merle <Philippe.Merle@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Mer nov 26, 2003  12:27:56 Europe/Paris
> To: Alexandre Lefebvre <alexandre.lefebvre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Emmanuel Cecchet <Emmanuel.Cecchet@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, 
> college@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [college] Next president of the ObjectWeb College of 
> Architects
>
> Hi,
>
> Alexandre Lefebvre wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Certainly, my talk has contributed to give this impression (i.e.
> ObjectWeb
> looks like a SourceForge for middleware) to most of the attenders.
>
> But this is the current reality: Some projects address similar topics
> with different approaches (e.g. Workflow engines, platforms for
> components,
> Java-to-DB mapping). However some work has started to have some
> convergence
> (e.g. next meeting on Workflow engines).
>
> > What do you intend to do to solve this mess ?
>
> As next previous president, I could say that it is hard for the
> president alone
> to solve this mess. This should be the goal of *all* members of the
> college.
>
> A+
> Philippe Merle
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