[eclipse.org-requirements-council] Council meetings next week

[Bjorn Freeman-Benson <bjorn.freeman-benson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: Bjorn Freeman

Requirements Council Members,
Ian Skerret will be chairing the Requirements Council meeting next week because Mike is attending the Board meeting. Ian will (or perhaps already has) send around an agenda. This email is about the plenary activities:

The schedule for the meetings returns to the "Portland style":

	Tuesday 13		Wednesday 14	Thursday 15
am	Requirements		Plenary w/ Board	Planning
pm		Architecture 1/2	Architecture 2/2
eve	Group dinner w/ Board

Hotel
You've all already made hotel reservations, but just in case you forgot where it is, the hotel is the Serrano Hotel, 405 Taylor Street, San Francisco http://www.serranohotel.com/

Group Dinner Tuesday Night
1830 cocktails, 1900 dinner at the Ponzu Restaurant (at the hotel). Those of you who pre-registered for dinner know who you are. Those of you who didn't - well, there aren't any seats left in the dining area, sorry.

Plenary Session Wednesday Morning

0800 - 0830: Continental Breakfast

 

0830 - 1000: Steven O'Grady (Redmonk): Building Communities

 

1000 - 1015: Break

 

1015 - 1100: Topic Leader: Mike Norman

I'm very interested in interoperability amongst projects, not just in terms of interop through the platform, but interop with each other.  There are related issues of re-use, packaging, release trains, quality etc.  There's a balance to be struck between a top-down and a bottom-up model. This is something that I think would be a useful area for the board to flesh out a policy.  However, it's not really for EMO execution, more something that is in scope of the Councils, so it ends up back with the member organizations, with EMO facilitation.

1100 - 1200: Topic Leader: Bjorn Freeman-Benson

Currently, the Board and the Projects see the development process differently. The Board wants protection; the Projects want freedom; each side needs to understand that there is value in the other's view and that some middle ground is going to be the best solution.

Regards,

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Bjorn Freeman-Benson Director, Open Source Process Eclipse Foundation
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