[Fiware-data] Draft FICORE review agenda

[SANTIAGO MARTINEZ GARCIA]

Dear all,

As requested, here is the agenda we received so far for the review meeting. A detailed one will be produced between today/tomorrow.

Regards,
Santiago.

Asunto:

RE: Review of the FI-CORE contract

Fecha:

Thu, 16 Jul 2015 07:47:53 +0000

De:

Arian.ZWEGERS at ec.europa.eu<mailto:Arian.ZWEGERS at ec.europa.eu>

Para:

juanjose.hierro at telefonica.com<mailto:juanjose.hierro at telefonica.com>, miguel.carrillopacheco at telefonica.com<mailto:miguel.carrillopacheco at telefonica.com>

CC:

Jesus.Villasante at ec.europa.eu<mailto:Jesus.Villasante at ec.europa.eu>, Peter.Fatelnig at ec.europa.eu<mailto:Peter.Fatelnig at ec.europa.eu>, CNECT-ICT-632893 at ec.europa.eu<mailto:CNECT-ICT-632893 at ec.europa.eu>



Dear Juanjo, Miguel,

As mentioned below, a review of the FI-Core activities is necessary to refocus the project on today’s priorities of the programme and to allow the project to stay relevant, efficient and effective.

Therefore, the following elements should be covered in this review meeting:

1.                   Problem Statement: what are the shortcomings the A16 subgrantees and other customers have identified with respect to:

o   Competitive advantage of the FIWARE enablers as compared to other existing solutions

o   Quality of enablers (specifications, software, documentation, …)

o   Support for the enablers

o   FIWARE Lab (design, capacity, usability, and customer support)

o   Sustainability (strategy)

2.                   Analysis: for each of the points above, why is it (perceived as) a problem? What are the causes?

3.                   Way forward: general directions and principles

4.                   Proposed changes to the existing workplan


Based on internal discussions and discussions with experts, we believe that the following points should be reviewed:

1.                   Way forward: general directions and principles

a.       Focus on a small number of enablers

·  Based on (the maturity of) FIWAREness: what does it mean to be a FIWARE enabler? What sets a FIWARE enabler apart from other solutions? Why should a certain component be called a "FIWARE enabler"?

·  Based on potential value for customers, i.e. subgrantees and other third parties, during the lifetime of the FI-PPP

b.      Increased usage of professional expertise, either from the consortium's companies (but outside their research departments) or outside the consortium

c.       Ongoing activities would strongly benefit from a change of way-of-working

2.                   Proposed changes:

a.       Usefulness of existing activities

·  Stop GEs that have “low FIWAREness”, based on agreed definition of FIWAREness, e.g. NGSI-compliance.

·  Stop development of GEs that are considered less potentially valuable, resulting from the A16 input analysis

·  Stop development on new GEs:

·       Cross-region enablement

·       Event Driven Orchestration

·       I2ND

·       Open Data Support -/- Open Data Portal

·       Data Visualisation and Analysis

·  Stop enablers that are separate, i.e. standing on their own, without links to selected Enablers, and that are not integratable.

·  Stop the demos in WP1.1

·  Stop sponsoring 2 out of 6 Campus Party events

b.      Competitive advantage of the FIWARE enablers as compared to other existing solutions

·  Strengthen FIWAREness

·  Improve interoperability of Enablers with each other

c.       Quality of enablers

·  Implement a stress test focused on reliability and scalability

·  Extend friendly testing to all supported enablers

·  Implement a wide-ranging bounty program to improve quality

·  Implement a high-quality technical support to developers and accelerators based on a service-level agreement

d.      Support for the enablers

·  Improve support (e.g. helpdesk) related to enablers

·  Improve documentation

·  Give “how-to” examples, improve usability of enablers

·  Improve training materials and tutorials, e.g. by involving two Mexican partners

e.       FIWARE Lab

·  Provide a reliable plan to ensure that no bottlenecks in networking and computing performance will occur

·  Provide attractive trial user places and allow a much wider participation of users outside Phase 3

·  Consider stopping the federation of nodes

·  Improve availability and usability of the Lab

·  Improve support related to the Lab based on a service-level agreement

·  Provide appropriate access to open data sources linked into FIWARE Lab (e.g. in collaboration with the Connecting Europe Facility)

f.        Sustainability (strategy)

·  Appoint an (external) community manager (team) to drive the building of the open source community

·  Set up a foundation before end 2015 and implement the transition of FIWARE in a foundation led initiative

·  Enlarge the industrial commitment with companies interested to become long-term partners in the FIWARE foundation and support the open source community

·  Get pre-commercial providers as new partners (part of the open call(s))

·  Implement a FIWARE application store

·  Implement an outreach program for H2020 projects considering/using FIWARE, including support and training

·  Improve dramatically social media outreach, move from communications to marketing, improve showcasing of success stories

g.       Other

·  Present a clear plan for the use of the resources dedicated to the open call (10% of the overall budget)
Best regards,
Arian


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