| Re: [m2m-iwg] propose name change |
Ian, In the academic IoT community people might be a bit confused by this name. There is a well-known FP7 european project named OpenIoT, which is mainly looking into providing an open IoT architecture for Cloud-based IoT systems. See http://openiot.eu/ Why not just Eclipse IoT? Cheers Gregor On 11 Dec 2013, at 15:44, "Ian Skerrett" <ian.skerrett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > All, > > In past meetings we have discussed changing the name of the WG but I think the time has come to take action. Therefore, I would like to officially propose we rename the Eclipse M2M Working Group to be Eclipse OpenIoT Working Group. The short version would be Eclipse OpenIoT. > > In the last year, the use of IoT has become more and more common, especially from organizations not traditionally associated with the telcos. Companies like Cisco, Intel, Bosch, Oracle and others are pushing forward with the IoT term. I do believe M2M is still a valid and popular term that we need to use when describing our collaboration but I do think it is a limiting term. > > I also believe that using the prefix ‘Open’ communicates a key part of our objective. > > We have a scheduled WG call next Tuesday. I’d like to add to the agenda this proposal. If you have any comments, please feel free to reply to this email or attend the meeting next Tuesday. > > Thanks > Ian > > _______________________________________________ > m2m-iwg mailing list > m2m-iwg@xxxxxxxxxxx > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/m2m-iwg
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