[Fiware-smart-cities-dtc] Kick-off of activities of FIWARE Smart Cities Domain Committee

[Juanjo Hierro]

Dear Olaf, Lanfanco, Rui, Ernoe, Stefane,

   First of all, please confirm reception of this mail.

   As part of the plan towards pushing for the adoption of FIWARE in the 
different verticals we would like to focus on (Smart Cities, Smart 
Agrifood, Smart Industry) we will launch activities of new so-called 
FIWARE Domain Committees, each per identified domain.

   In this respect, we have created a *FIWARE Smart Cities Domain 
Committee* and have included you as initial members in a mailing list 
that we have created as a tool for the discussions (the mailing list you 
are receiving this mail through).   The FIWARE Foundation BoO and 
Angeles Tejado as representative of the FIWARE Press Office are also 
members of the mailing list.

   There are some concrete tasks that we would need to launch at this 
point and for which we would need your support/engagement:

  * Definition of content for the dedicated parallel track that will be
    focused on your vertical domain in the next FIWARE Summit event that
    will take place in Utrecht on May 29-31, 2017 (this parallel track
    most likely will take place on May 30, from 11:30am on).   This will
    mean identifying keynote speakers, organizing panels with relevant
    domain stakeholders, etc.   As representatives of a company in the
    FIWARE Foundation BoD, and given the fact that Stefane or Ernoe will
    already lead the track on smart industry, we suggest that Olaf take
    the lead on this but, of course, this should be a collaborative
    effort (and the FIWARE Foundation will for sure try to contribute as
    much as we can).  You will be soon called as members of the FIWARE
    Summit Program Committee that we are about to launch. Please stay tuned.
  * Identification of relevant success stories of "Powered by FIWARE"
    solutions to bring to the FIWARE Marketplace and also to the
    Exhibition Area at the FIWARE Summit.
  * Design of a specific brochure focused on the delivering key
    marketing messages regarding the value proposition as well as
    success stories of FIWARE on the Smart Cities sector.  The FIWARE
    Press Office, led by our new CMO, Garan Goodman, will work with you
    on this.
  * Whitepaper elaborating on the vision from a business but also
    technical perspective (as with regards the technical perspective,
    you can count on me and I will engaging members of the FIWARE
    Foundation technical staff as needed)

   In the longer run, we expect that each FIWARE Domain Committee will 
lead to coordination of the developments of Domain-Specific Enablers as 
well as Domain-specific Common Context Information Modls in coordination 
with the FIWARE Technical Steering Committee.   Probably Smart Cities is 
the area on which we have progress more so far in this respect, but we 
hope other results will become also highly visible in other domains in 
the short time.

   The FIWARE Domain Committee will be also the perfect forum to run 
discussion on how to foster adoption of FIWARE in the particular sector, 
push for the adoption of policies helping in this adoption from Public 
Administrations, etc.

   Of course, these FIWARE Domain Committees will have to coordinate 
with the activities of the cross-vertical FIWARE Mission Support 
Committees that have recently been created: FIWARE Accelerator, FIWARE 
iHubs and FIWARE Mundus.   We will create a mailing list for overall 
coordination and call for specific meetings to oversee such 
coordination, including activities that may be common to several Committees.

   We have created the following shared folder in Google Drive as 
workspace for your convenience:

    https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B4G2SvO4TLuLRHpnc1ZveFJ4Ums?usp=sharing

   We would encourage the creation of a charter for this Committee so 
that it can be formally proposed to the FIWARE BoD for approval, which 
will bring certain benefits (but also the demand to deliver results, 
since exposure would be higher :-)   As a reference, you may consider 
the Charter of the recently formed (interim) FIWARE iHubs Committee you 
can find here:

    https://docs.google.com/a/fiware.org/document/d/1q7DPLnqB2pRlerrj1UK9oWceXp-wN8-N9qWsAxFnG5Y/edit?usp=sharing

   You probably will be able to generate a new one by just copying it 
and adapting.  However, I would suggest that first demonstrate ourselves 
we can run the activity because if we are not able to produce results 
for the first list of tasks, probably we are not yet there to create a 
Committee.

   Cheers,

-- 
JuanjoHierroEmailSignature
Juanjo Hierro 	
	
Chief Technology Officer
FIWARE Foundation 	
	FIWARE Foundation
email: juanjose.hierro at fiware.org
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