[ogf20pc] Notes from last night's telcon

[Malcolm Atkinson]

I would back continuing the developer track for the reasons that Neil gives
and
1) holding it at OGFn brings people to that Forum who we need in order to
identify and define standards; and
2) it probably increases the chances of developers hearing about particular
OGF standards and adopting them.

Those two effects were behind the idea of developer tracks.
The idea should be pursued consistently for it to have a chance of having
significant effects.  This is likely to be a more direct effect and have a
larger impact than some of the community and enterprise activities we engage
in.

Malcolm



On 22/2/07 16:06, "neil p chue hong" <N.ChueHong at epcc.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

>  
> Hi Dave,
> 
>> There is a suggestion to cancel the developer track at OGF20,
>> as we are short of slots and have several good workshop
>> proposals.  E.g. we would like to fit in the Arts and
>> Humanities workshop.
> 
> I think it would be a big mistake to cancel the Developer Track. If we are
> to consider OGF in its wider role as a community forum to bring together
> people working in eScience, the Developer track fulfils a previously
> unaddressed gap for those who are working close to standards but not on
> them, and those who are working with applications scientists on developing
> software and applications.
> 
> The four sessions I attended at OGF19 (GT4, OMII-UK, Genesis-II and OGCE)
> were all very well attended and generated a lot of ongoing interest. My only
> comment is that the steer for these sessions should focus them to a
> developer audience - some veered a bit to high up towards marketing.
>  
> cheers,
> neil
> 
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