[Fiware-pcc] FI-WARE Top-gun programmers

[Juanjo Hierro]

Hi all,

  Let me elaborate a bit on this idea I brought regarding creation of the FI-WARE Top-gun programmers concept as part of the project.

  This idea came to my mind at the Campus Party Europe event, which gave us the opportunity to meet very good programmers.   I thought it would be great to involve in FI-WARE activities for the remaining of the project.

  My vision was that it would be interesting to recruit them as "Top-gun FI-WARE programmers" (or any sort of appealing title like this) so that they can:

  1.  Work as "FI-WARE ambassadors" in some events.   This may be necessary even to scale (I'm particularly thinking about presence at the Startup Weekend events)
  2.  Get involved in a task dealing with development of FI-WARE demos.  This may not just bring the clear benefit of getting those demos done (which is always useful, as we have learned from the review at month 18 and beyond) but, rather important, it would allow us to gather feedback about FI-WARE from the perspective of real third-party programmers.   Because they would be paid for it, they may end up running more complete trials of FI-WARE GEis than the UC projects (who I sometimes have the doubt whether they understand they were funded for trying to use FI-WARE)

  After this came to my mind:

  *   I approached them a couple of weeks ago to test the waters and many of them told me they would like the idea of joining this team of "Top-gun FI-WARE programmers"
  *   I also approached the EC (Arian) and asked his opinion about the idea and he thought it was actually a good idea.

  The major issue may have to do with payment.   We would need to fund them 100% and we also need to understand who hires them in the first place (most of them are not working in any company)

  There is in principle funding that we are not using that could very well be used for this purpose.   Among other things, we haven't spent any funding regarding the Market Advisory Council, which we have never launched and may not need to be launched given the fact that the FI-PPP Advisory Council has been re-organized and now it will include some market representatives (one representing the investors' point of view, another they are currently searching for, aimed to represent SMEs/entrepreneurs.

  Best regards,


-- Juanjo

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