Dear all,
First of all, I would like to wish you all the best for you, your
families and teams for this new year 2007 !!
Please read carefully the important information related to the
transition from ObjectWeb to OW2 Consortium, enclosed below.
By the way, could you please replace our e-mail addresses (for Adrian
and myself) by the following ones in the Eclipse STP mailing lists :
- Adrian.Mos at inria.fr
- Alain.Boulze at inria.fr
Thanks in advance,
Cheers,
--
Alain
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MPORTANT INFORMATION ENCLOSED – PLEASE READ CAREFULLY
Dear ObjectWeb members and partners,
ObjectWeb is about to undergo the biggest
evolution since its foundation as
a consortium in 2002 by Bull, France Telecom
and INRIA.
* ObjectWeb: Success and Evolution
The ObjectWeb story started somewhere around
Grenoble in the Alp
mountains in the late 90's and now spans the
whole planet with active
participation of members from several
European countries to China to the
United States to Brazil. Over the last 5
years, our community experienced
tremendous growth, now counting over 70
corporate members, over 700
committers, thousands of individual members
and contributors from many
countries in all continents. Our middleware
code base counts over a hundred
projects for a total of tens of million lines
of open source code.
This phase of growth brought new
opportunities and new challenges. In order
to better address them, the Board of
Directors decided in early 2005 to start
a task force with the mission of evaluating
possible scenarios and
implementing the most suitable of them. This
mission code-named
“ObjectWeb v2” has been successful due to
major commitment of
ObjectWeb’s community. As a result, it was
decided to make the transition
from the current organization, namely a
consortium hosted by INRIA, to a full-
fledged, non-profit independent legal entity.
This new entity, whose bylaws
have been approved by ObjectWeb's Board of
Directors, will be incepted in
January 2007 under the French law as a
non-profit association headquartered
in Brussels, Belgium.
* Creation of OW2: a Nonprofit Legal Entity
The new organization is registered under the
name “OW2 Consortium” or OW2
for short. This new name is the result of
ObjectWeb and OrientWare joining
their forces to build a global and powerful
alliance. After extensive consultation
of the community, its rules of operation have
been defined on the following
principles:
- enhanced commitment from the members
through three levels of membership:
Strategic,
Corporate and Individual
- deliberate market awareness with the
underlying rationale to bridge the gap
between
enterprise developers and users
- a refined governance model promoting
increased participation from the
community,
with three councils addressing technology, ecosystem
development
and operations
- possibilities to create local chapters so
as to facilitate international
development
in a decentralized way
* In Practice: What to Expect, What Actions
to Take
The ObjectWeb consortium agreement is ending
on December 31, 2006. OW2
Consortium is starting on January 1, 2007.
Current members are warmly invited
to join OW2 but memberships will not be
automatically transferred. For this
reason, it is very important that ObjectWeb
members take the necessary actions
to join the OW2 Consortium. Strategic and
corporate members joining OW2 in
the first quarter of year 2007, be them
former ObjectWeb members or not, will be
deemed Co-Founders of the association.
Joining OW2 will most likely require the
involvement of your legal department. All
necessary legal documents will be available
online shortly and additional
information is available on request. As CEO
of the association, Cedric Thomas
will lead the operations and be your main
contact for all practical information.
No personal information will be transferred
from ObjectWeb to OW2 without the
explicit consent of the user. A simplified
procedure will be put in place so that
registered members and users of the ObjectWeb
online facility can opt-in to have
their personal information transferred to the
association. Details are to be sent on
all ObjectWeb mailing lists shortly.
From now on, new membership and new project
submission will no longer be
accepted by ObjectWeb. However in the short
term the ObjectWeb web site and
Forge will be kept up and running, so project
and community activities be carried
on without interruption.
We want to thank you all for having made OW2
Consortium possible. We are
now counting on you to make it an even better
place for great projects. We invite
you all, developers, researchers, open source
enthusiasts from over the world, to
participate in this new and exciting
endeavor. Last but not least, we would like to
take advantage of this message to present you
our most sincere season's
greetings and wish you the best for year
2007. And long live OW2!
With warmest regards,
On behalf of the Board of Directors,
Jean Pierre Laisné – ObjectWeb Chairman
François Letellier – ObjectWeb Executive
Director
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