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

Even if OSCOM does not exist tommorrow, someone should defend records 
since a lot of good came out of it although over the years, there have 
been prolems with focus and attention.

More than anything, it made people start off on their directions.

Anyway, can we publish a book of CMS directory which we can sell?  Like 
Oreilly book, perhaps Oreilly can print it?

Sandro Groganz wrote:

> 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
>
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