Back from beautiful Trento in Italy where the 5th EPTS Symposium was held. Marvelous location, and we even managed to find a really beautiful Michelin-star rated restaurant.
While it was great to meet up with some friends and colleagues, and there were some very interesting nuggets at the conference, my overall impression was one of disappointment and frustration. We are still struggling with basic concepts, arguing about the definition of Event Processing (and there are some very … different … views), and still haven’t managed to produce anything that either identifies the major components you’d find in a reference architecture, or found commonality in any of the use cases. Actually .. working groups aside, that’s kinda what we ended up with last year. And the year before…
And before I offend the very people I wish to praise and give credit to, let me be clear. It’s most definitely not the fault of the people collaborating on the working groups. They’re contributing. Giving up their precious time. In order to make progress, we really need to get more people involved, and we need to set clearer mandates on the deliverables for these working groups.
A new working group was proposed to promote the EPTS. This will also involve publishing the public deliverables from the working groups, and encouraging new members to join and contribute.
Here’s hoping that this time next year, I won’t feel another Bill Murray moment coming on!
October 8th, 2009 at 1:33 am
Could not make it to Trento but I feel exactly the same.
Are there plans to make the documents available on the website?
Regards
Elhabib
October 8th, 2009 at 11:45 am
Elhabib,
The plan is that the documents will be posted on the members wiki at members.ep-ts.com
Probably at some stage in the future, they’ll be published on the public website. I’d like to redo the public website too – waiting to see if the new workgroup gets approved.
October 8th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
Hi Brian. Progress is indeed slower than I hoped, and indeed we need to get more people participate in the working groups. However, I don’t see public review of work done and getting different opinions heard at that review as a bad thing, public reviews are intended to improve the quality of deliverables, so the “thinking out loud” has been the major goal of that meeting. As for getting things done faster– my challenge to you is to set a personal example by leading and participating in work groups.
Getting the EPTS promotion work off the ground will be very helpfull
cheers,
Opher
October 9th, 2009 at 1:50 am
Hi Brian
This is Elhabib again.
I am able to login to the public site but not to the members wiki. Do I need a separate login name for the wiki?
I am from CAC Japan and we are member of EPTS.
My login name on the pulic site is Elhabib
can you help?
You can reach me at the email above
Thanks
Elhabib