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Joining OW2 Consortium (reminder)

2007-02-20T13:14:08Z

Dear All,

I am writing to remind you that as ObjectWeb and OrientWare merged to
become OW2 on January 1, 2007, you need to use the on-line registration
at http://joining.ow2.org/registration.html to become a member of the new
organization.

Smaller organizations may be interested to know that we have introduced a
new membership fee category of 1,000 for Micro-enterprises (as defined
by the European Commission at
http://europa.eu/scadplus/leg/en/lvb/n26026.htm).

Please note that applications received and paid in full by March 18,
2007, will benefit from founding membership status.

The Management Office and I look forward to working with you on making
OW2 the leading open source middleware consortium it deserves to be.

Best regards,

Cedric Thomas

PS1: apologies if you had to receive this several times.

PS2: OW2 Registration process:

First, please go to www.ow2.org, download and read the Consortium Bylaws,
its Intellectual Property Rights Policy and its Membership Agreement.

Then it is imperative you proceed through the OW2 Online Registration
process:

1) Former ObjectWeb members
Former ObjectWeb members may transfer their information to OW2 by login
in at: http://myow2.objectweb.org/viewProfile.php. From there, you can
validate or update the information we already have on yourself or your
organization.

2) New members
New members must complete the Online Registration process at
http://joining.objectweb.org/registration.html

Please note that the Online Registration process will automatically
generate a completed Membership Agreement in .pdf format. All you need to
do is print it and send two copies (of which one will be returned to you)
of the signed original Membership Agreement to:

OW2 Consortium
c/o Thales IS
Boite 204
Avenue du Port, 86C
1000 Bruxelles
Belgium

Regarding membership fees, Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) rules as defined
by the World Bank will be taken into account for developing countries.
Please do not hesitate to contact me directly should you feel the PPP is
applicable to your membership.

Cedric Thomas
CEO, OW2 Consortium cedric.thomas at objectweb.org
C: +33 611 430 431 D: +33 140 301 303
www.ow2.org Leading Open-Source Middleware

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[Fwd: OW2: Milestones and Objectives, February 2007]

2007-02-07T08:37:57Z

Dear ObjectWeb Newsletter subscriber,

Please find hereunder, an update on OW2 sent yesterday to ObjectWeb
mailing lists. My apologies to those who may have already received it.
Please do not hesitate to contact me directly should you have any
question, remark, suggestion or if you can provide help.
Kind regards,
Cedric

Cedric Thomas
CEO, OW2 Consortium cedric.thomas at objectweb.org
C: +33 611 430 431 D: +33 140 301 303
www.ow2.org Leading Open-Source Middleware

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Objet: OW2: Milestones and Objectives, February 2007
De: "Cedric Thomas" <cedric.thomas@...>
Date: Mar 6 février 2007 19:40
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Dear all,

OW2 is now one month old and, on behalf of the Management Office, I have
drawn up a short progress report. If we should decide that this report is
to be produced on a monthly basis, the Management Office will use it to
inform the community of the previous months achievements and the
priorities set for the following month.

The items on our agenda today:

1°) Introduction to the Management Office
2°) January report
3°) Timeline for the next months
4°) Membership development
5°) Business practices
6°) Registration process (reminder)
7°) February priorities
8°) Help needed

1°) Introduction to the Management Office
The Management Office is the team responsible for managing the
Consortiums day-to-day operations.
Who is in the MO? The key positions: Webmaster: Xavier Moghrabi, INRIA;
CTO: Jacques Cayuela, Bull; Activities Coordination: Julie Marguerite,
INRIA; Event Coordination: Catherine Nuel, INRIA; Ecosystem Development:
Jean-Pierre Laisné, Bull; CEO: Cedric Thomas.

Up-coming developments: Julie Marguerite will move from INRIA to THALES
on March 1st,; she will remain a member of the Management Office. Xavier
Moghrabi will be leaving INRIA in a few months time and is to transfer
his extensive knowledge to a new Webmaster at Engineering. The MarCom
position is vacant and needs to be filled.

2°) January report
OW2 is currently in the start-up phase which requires moving on from
planning the new organization (2006) to actually implementing the new
consortium (2007). For this reason, January was a rather strange month
as many of us were still in Object Web mode and not yet in OW2 mode. I
suppose this is to be expected; it takes time to take on board the next
phase and to start becoming involved in the new organization.

January highlights include:
- Solutions Linux trade show and ObjectWeb conference: the consortium was
present through the ObjectWeb village with EBMWebsourcing, Edifixio,
Engineering, Sogeti and THALES; communication focused on the transition
toward OW2; on the conference side, the technical presentations were well
attended and the question session after the OW2 presentation demonstrated
attendees interest in the new consortium.
- Hosting: the Technology Council defined the target architecture and
received and started evaluating four proposals. The annual budget is
between 50K and 100K with guaranteed bandwidth making up most of the
cost.
- Membership: finalized the implementation of an online registration
process mandatory for all membership applications.
- Membership Agreement: finalized and now part of the online registration
process (http://aboutus.ow2.org/doc/OW2C-MemberAgreement.pdf).
- New Members: 80 individual members; to date, four Strategic Members
(Thales, Bull, INRIA, CVIC-SE) and four Corporate Members (Charles
University, Eteration, Experlog, European Dynamics, Funambol).
- Website: secured ownership of the OW2.ORG domain name and developed
specific OW2 pages (site map is still provisional).
- Graphic designer: received proposal for new logo and web page templates
(to be evaluated by EC).
- European Projects: OW2 replaced ObjectWeb as NESSI Board Member;
participated in the NESSI Steering Committee and worked on defining the
ONESSI Initiative.
- Consortium Overview: there is now a 30-slide presentation of the OW2
Consortium essentials (http://aboutus.ow2.org/press.html)

3°) Timeline for the next few months:
- Recruitment of members campaign = January until end March
- Deadline for "Founding Member" status = March 18
- Notice of General Assembly = April 1
- Registration of Candidates = April 1 to 10
- Online Campaign = April 10 to 20
- Online vote = April 21 to 28
- Results = April 30
- Quarterly Meeting = May 3 and 4 (Paris or Brussels)
- Board Meeting = May 3
- Councils Meetings = May 3
- General Assembly = May 4
- Presentations of New Activities = May 4

BTW, as a consequence, this sets our Communication Timeline (which we
need to discuss):
- Case studies and testimonials = February, March
- Analyst briefings = April
- OW2 Launch at Java One = May 8-11 (i.e. first significant event after
the General Assembly).

4°) Membership development
The online registration process is up and ready. As we still have an
issue with our address in Brussels, we may need to ask members to send
their Membership Agreements to an another address to speed up membership
processing.
Deadline for "Founding Member" status is March 18, the date by which we
should have sined most of our 2007 members.

5°) Best business practices
The Solutions Linux trade show was the opportunity to have broad-ranging
discussions with members who visited the ObjectWeb village. Some of the
most critical discussions revolved around fairness in business
relationships between large and small companies. This is obviously
critical for small, innovative companies if they are to grow within the
framework of OW2. It is now well established that one of OW2s objectives
is to help create a business ecosystem for its members. Here, as an
organization, we are venturing onto unchartered territory. There will be
a learning process. Members must learn to work together in their business
projects to develop a sustainable business ecosystem in the same way as
they work collectively within technology projects to develop a consistent
middleware code base. Building the business ecosystem is one of the most
exciting challenges of OW2. It will not happen overnight: successes will
come along with their load of dissatisfaction and inappropriate behavior.
Part of the answer to address this new challenge will be to publish a
Code of Good Conduct on business practices. The Ecosystem Council will
have to work on this and all members who shared these values are welcome
to participate in this effort.

6°) Registration process (reminder)
a) Former ObjectWeb members:
Former ObjectWeb members may transfer their information to OW2 by login
in at: http://myow2.objectweb.org/viewProfile.php. From there, you can
validate or update the information we already have on yourself or your
organization.
b) New members:
New members must complete the Online Registration process at
http://joining.objectweb.org/registration.html

7°) February priorities
Our top priorities for February include:
- Membership development and invoicing
- Web site and logo re-design
- Hosting provider selection
- Global MO operations
- Participant Agreement
- Councils Charters
- Cases studies

8°) Help needed
There is only so much the Management Office can do in this period of fast
change. We need help from the community with the following tasks:
- Validating the Participant Agreement (legal work)
- Helping with logo and graphic design
- Developing Councils charters
- Writing Case Studies
- Updating press lists

Please do not hesitate to contact me directly at cedric.thomas AT
objectweb.org. Your help will be most appreciated.

Thats all for now.
Thank you for your ongoing support.
Kind Regards,

Cedric

Cedric Thomas
CEO, OW2 Consortium cedric.thomas at objectweb.org
C: +33 611 430 431 D: +33 140 301 303
www.ow2.org Leading Open-Source Middleware

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION - Transition from ObjectWeb to OW2

2006-12-21T09:26:15Z

IMPORTANT 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
ObjectWebs 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

François LETELLIER
INRIA Rhône-Alpes - ObjectWeb Project Director
email: francois.letellier at inria.fr - cell: +33
(0)6 84 64 00 24 - Skype: francois.letellier
blog: http://os3g.blogspot.com/

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