Re: [technology-pmc] COSMOS requests permission to proceed with its rele

[Wayne Beaton <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Ruth. Please take another quick look at the page; the right nav 
still doesn't seem quite right to me.

+1 to proceed with the release review.

Wayne

Ruth Lee wrote:
> Hi Wayne,
>
> Yes, we haven't been updating the landing page recently. I've removed the 
> reference to EclipseCon and moved the older News to the Archived section. 
> We communicate primarily through our Wiki pages, which are linked to from 
> that main landing page. The team will take a look at the web site and give 
> it some polish. 
>
> The team wants more community development and is working hard to spread 
> the word and increase interest in the project. For example, we've worked 
> with Qualcomm to get their MDR up and running. A non-committer, Ray Ellis, 
> participated in some architecture discussions about potential performance 
> improvements to the COSMOS code. We've had discussions with SAP and HP and 
> are hopeful that they will be interested in joining COSMOS. And two member 
> companies of COSMOS have drawn attention to COSMOS recently via an interop 
> that was based on COSMOS code. This link shows some examples in the media: 
> http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/cosmos-dev/msg03111.html We have 
> internal adoption by member companies and external customer engagements by 
> member companies.
>
> One of the challenges that we face is that the standards that COSMOS 
> implements (DMTF, W3C, OASIS) are themselves new. We think that as the 
> standards themselves solidify and become more popular, interest in COSMOS 
> will increase. Today we are working hard to build our community and we 
> will continue to work on this. 
>
> Thanks,
> Ruth.
>
>
> Ruth Lee
> IBM Toronto Lab
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> Your landing page [1] needs a little TLC. Specifically, the right side 
> has some kind of DIV tag weirdness going on and--while we do appreciate 
> the plug--the EclipseCon advert is a little out of date :-).
>
> There seems to be relatively little community development (relatively 
> little activity in the newsgroups and few bug reports created by 
> non-committers). Can you comment on the kinds of things that COSMOS is 
> doing to develop a community around the project? Can you perhaps 
> highlight some community-development successes?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wayne
>
> [1]http://www.eclipse.org/cosmos/
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> Ruth Lee wrote:
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> > Hi Technology PMC,
> >
> > The COSMOS subproject would like to request permission to proceed with a 
> >     
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> > release review for its upcoming v1.0, which is planned to GA on Nov 14, 
> > 2008. Because this is a v1.0 release I understand that this is also 
> > considered a graduation review. May we proceed?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Ruth.
> >
> >
> > Ruth Lee
> > IBM Toronto Lab
> > ruthdaly@xxxxxxxxxx
> > T/L 313-4453
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