Re: [cosmos-dev] Oliver Action Item - Elevator Pitch

[Craig Thomas <cthomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Oliver,

Thanks for pulling this together.

With regard to meeting logistics, here are my preferences:

  1. Mon, 19-Mar, 2pm EDT/11am PDT
  2. Wed, 21-Mar, 2pm EDT/11am PDT
  3. Wed, 21-Mar, 4pm EDT/1pm PDT

Here's a start at the elevator pitch requirements from my end...

As a constituent of the users of the June delivery of COSMOS, here is 
what I would like to be able to present to the executives here at 
GroundWork (in no particular order):

   * Explanation of the state of implementation in June, and a roadmap
     toward the remaining work.
   * Overview of the Eclipse COSMOS community, including an
     understanding of the level of resource commitment from the
     participants.
   * Status of SML and CML standards, including an understanding of the
     ways (in addition to Eclipse COSMOS) that these standards are
     being adopted.
   * Adopter's guide for the June release. This would include just
     enough documentation to allow GroundWork to estimate the work
     needed to integrate a new data collector, a new repository, and a
     simplistic user interface.

With this information, I could inform the executive team of progress, 
let them understand how other companies in the community have supported 
the work, and propose continued or increased commitment to the community.

The first bullet, the "state of implementation", could be served by 
pictures, one with some boxes grayed out to indicate work beyond June, 
and one or more showing the gray boxes gaining color over subsequent 
release points.

That last bullet, the "Adopter's guide", would just be a set of 
references to the documentation we are already planning for the 
components in the release. I'm not picturing anything extensive or fancy 
here.

Hope that's the kind of thing you were looking for. If not, please let 
me know.

Thanks,
   Craig.