Re: [OSCOM] Re: Michi resigns from OSCOM [Fwd: [Board] OSCOM ordinary meeting of members minutes]

Hi Seth!

Seth Gottlieb wrote:
> I am interested in participating in this dialog of the future of OSCOM 
> on the mail list or wiki or whatever you choose.  As for me, I would 
> like to see OSCOM pursue the following:
> 
> * Develop and promote a message of "why open source.".  In particular, 
> fight the fear.  It would be great to come up with some empirical 
> rebuttal to the proprietary software industry's claim that open source 
> is actually more expensive because it is essentially un-finished and 
> requires a disproportionate amount of effort to install and integrate.

Highly ACK!

Do you have some brainstorming ideas how to implement this?

> * Promote collaboration and fraternity between developers across 
> projects.

I have the impression that this is actually the hardest part - at least 
that's what it was the past years. How can you achieve momentum here, so 
that cross-projects collaboration really continues long-term and is of 
interest and benefit to all involved parties?

> * Participate in and endorse (or reject) standards (JSR170, 
> OSR101, iECM)

I'd be very happy to hear concrete suggestions from you here as well, 
because again, I fully agree with you. The tricky question is: how to do 
it efficiently, so that it starts small, has great effect, and gets 
momentum so that others join?

> :Let me know if I can be of any help.

Most definitely! I see that you can help us a lot in defining the niche 
of OSCOM more clearly, so that we can focus on some very effective 
actions to reach our goals.

Let's think big and start small.

Sandro