[news.eclipse.eclipsecon] [Announce] Joint Eclipse/OMG Symposia

["Kenn Hussey" <Kenn.Hussey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

                          Call For Contributions

                               Symposia on
                    Eclipse Open Source Software and
                        OMG Open Specifications

             Thursday 20th March 2008, Santa Clara, CA, USA
            Wednesday 25th June 2008, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

                         Position Paper deadline:
                             7th January 2008

                         Hosted by Eclipse & OMG


Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on building 
an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and 
runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle. 
Most Eclipse projects use standards in some form - in many cases these are 
OMG standards.

OMG is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry 
consortium which develops enterprise integration standards, many of which 
have been implemented in Eclipse projects.

Eclipse and OMG are jointly organising two one-day symposia to promote and 
build on the partnership between Eclipse's open source software and OMG's 
open standards - one as part of EclipseCon 2008 in Santa Clara, the other 
during the OMG Technical Meeting in Ottawa. Each symposium will be organised 
as a series of discussion sessions on corresponding OMG standards and 
Eclipse projects. In each case the purpose will be to discuss the alignment 
between current standard and implemented software, and identify areas where 
the cooperation could be further improved in future.

Eclipse and OMG invite position papers of up to 600 words on any of the 
topic areas below, or any other area where an OMG specification relates to 
Eclipse software. The programme committee will publish all submitted 
position papers, and invite some of the paper authors to lead individual 
discussion sessions.

These symposia are a unique opportunity to participate in shaping the joint 
future of the Eclipse Open Source community and the OMG Open Standards 
community. Please join us for two days of stimulating technical planning and 
discussion.

Topics:

  * Eclipse EMF subproject & OMG Essential Meta Object Facility (EMOF)
  * Eclipse EODM component & OMG Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM)
  * Eclipse Data Tools Platform (DTP) project & OMG Information Management
          Metamodel (IMM)
  * Eclipse SOA Tool Platform (STP) project & OMG SOA
  * Eclipse BPMN subproject & OMG Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)
  * Eclipse Model to Model Transformation (M2M) subproject & OMG
          Query/View/Transformation (QVT)
  * Eclipse OCL component & OMG Object Constraint Language (OCL)
  * Which standards need OSS implementations?
  * Which OSS implementations needs to have standardised models or 
interfaces?

Instructions

Interested individuals or organisations are invited to submit a brief (up to 
600 words) position paper by 7th January 2008 using this web form (please 
select "Session Presentation"), and indicating which of the two symposia (or 
both) they intend to attend:

    http://www.omg.org/abstracts

The Programme Committee will send invitations to prospective session leaders 
for each symposium in early January 2008.

The final symposium agenda and registration details will be available on 
21st January 2008 and posted at:

    http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/eclispe-omg-2008/index.htm

Programme Committee

Chairs:  Andrew Watson, Object Management Group
         Kenn Hussey, Embarcadero Technologies

         Ian Skerrett, Eclipse Foundation
         Oisin Hurley, IONA
         Richard Gronback, Borland
         Ed Merks, IBM
         Pete Rivett, Adaptive
         Harsh Sharma, MetLife
         Andrius Strazdauskas, NoMagic