[Fiware-coaches] R: Process to assess usage of FIWARE by SMEs/startups under FIWARE Accelerator programme

[consoft-fiwarecoach at consoft.it]

Hello Juan Jose, all,

I'm Marco Terrinoni, FIWARE Coach from Consoft for CEED Tech.

In your email you said "tomorrow" when talking about this meeting, but looking at the attached calendar appointment, I assume you're talking about today 16/06, right?
In this case I'm truly sorry, but I can't join this call since I'm not in my office today, and unfortunately I didn't have the time to reschedule my tasks for today since I received your email just this morning at 7 AM (I don't know why).

Anyway, I agree that this is an important call and I would like to say something "through you" (and the coaching mailing list), in order to participate somehow.
Regarding the FIWARE adoption by the various projects under accelerators, I think it's necessary to adopt a common way of evaluation regarding certain GEs, like for example projects that aim to use the Object Storage enabler (especially if outside of FIWARE Lab - there is a project in CEED Tech with this situation). I refer you to my last message sent on coaches mailing list (08/06 14:55), summarizing: is it correct to consider the Object Storage as a "complete" enabler?
Also Franck Le Gall raised this point and he also mentioned the case of the IdM.

For what concerns the FIWARE Accelerator Project Statistics, I already pointed it out to CEED Tech (including the Basecamp post).
Currently I'm evaluating the final assessments for each project accelerated by CEED Tech, in order to collect a group of feedbacks, together with a list of details about FIWARE enablers usage (details that I will use to fulfill the columns that you mentioned in the middle of your email).
This assessment is somehow similar to the questionnaire you just mentioned (questionnaire that I will propagate to CEED Tech projects once, as you said, we will agree on which instrument to use to support the assessment).
This assessment includes questions about: maturity<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_readiness_level> and leverage of the selected GEs, implementation description, deviation from the initial FIWARE usage plan, perceived issues, and future plans.

I hope that, as usual, at the end of this call, a report will be shared among the coaches mailing list.

Thank you very much for your attention and sorry again for my absence.

Best regards,
Marco


Marco Terrinoni
Consoft Sistemi s.p.a.
BU Application
Via Pio VII 127 - 10127 - Torino
Tel (+39) 011 3161571
Fax (+39) 011 3161583


-----Appuntamento originale-----
Da: JUAN JOSE HIERRO SUREDA [mailto:juanjose.hierro at telefonica.com]
Inviato: martedì 16 giugno 2015 07:00
A: fiware-coaches at lists.fiware.org; stefano de panfilis
Oggetto: [Fiware-coaches] Process to assess usage of FIWARE by SMEs/startups under FIWARE Accelerator programme
Data: martedì 16 giugno 2015 14:30-16:00 (UTC+1.00) Sarajevo, Skopje, Varsavia, Zagabria.
Percorso: powwownow with code 436393




dear all,


last thursday and friday in paris there was the a16 meeting.


at the moment, as also reported by some of you, there are doubts on the real effectiveness of fiware adoption by the projects selected by the various accelerators.


so, as fiware we (actually juanjo who was our representative there, but fully supported by me as i was attending the xifi review) proposed there to have fiware experts to evaluate the real and above all correct adoption of fiware by the various projects.
this aspect is exteremely important for us as the success of the whole fiware initiative depends on the degree how and how much fiware technologies are used and accepted by the developers.


this work really need to be promptly started to avoid wrong directions to be taken by the projects and above all the missuse, if not waste, of public money.
of course the only persons whoi can really manage this process are the fiware accelerators ... who else my friends ;-)


the idea of the meeting of tomorrow is to start and eventually already agree on a process to be adopted to perform such task.


please note that for the same a16 meeting i have posted on basecamp (where all the accelerators are present with more than a person) an update version of the "fiware accelerator projects statistics" (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jeF3Xy7I_6MdQE1OaFII0HGH1CUU44S7B-tAqvR4Vqw/edit#gid=0) which all of you already well know as we talked about its importance several times.
this new version has:
- first of all a page for each accelerator as this was not the case before
- for each page new columns where to add the use of ge for each selected project (this data must be assessed/entered by you!!!)
- new rooms for overall statistics for the second wave of calls. please note that data for the first wave are still incomplete


the spreadsheet is only the final, yet important, step of the work we need to do, as more importantly is the real fiware use that we have to assess.
a goal for tomorrow for instance os to agree which instrument to support the assessment of such use, perhaps the questionnaire i have alreadydisitributed months ago could be the tool.


i apologise if this email arrive so late today, but things sometimes evolve very fast, even too fast, so i hope to meet the majority of you tomorrow afternoon, it is really important!


we will talk through the usual powwownow with code 436393.


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