Hi all, Even though many of you are on vacation, let me quickly comment on the latest development regarding the upcoming review. As you probably saw in the email from Juanjo we are supposed to create a couple of slides regarding WebUI for the review. It is actually a defensive mechanism as WebUI is not directly addressed by the commission so far. So the goal is to present the chapter in a way that any thoughts on canceling GEs will be avoided. The fact that we did the GE exercise comes in very handy here. I will prepare a couple of slides and send them around to discuss and iterate. Note that some partners may be affected slightly by the suggested cancellation of the demo activities in WP1.1. I believe the reasoning by the commission is that with so many Phase-III projects there should be enough demos available to FIWARE. While we can argue about that I am skeptical if cancellation can be avoided. I suggest that the relevant partners discuss this with the WP1.1 lead. Best, Philipp -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Fiware-chapter-leaders] Fwd: RE: Review of the FI-CORE contract Datum: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 10:21:51 +0200 Von: MIGUEL CARRILLO PACHECO <miguel.carrillopacheco at telefonica.com> An: fiware-chapter-leaders at lists.fi-ware.org <fiware-chapter-leaders at lists.fi-ware.org>, fiware-chapter-architects at lists.fi-ware.org <fiware-chapter-architects at lists.fi-ware.org>, fiware-wg-leaders at lists.fi-ware.org <fiware-wg-leaders at lists.fi-ware.org>, Chulani, Ilknur <ilknur.chulani at atos.net>, Clara Maria Pezuela Robles <clara.pezuela at atos.net>, Malena Donato Cohen <malena.donato at atos.net>, Nuria De-Lama Sanchez <nuria.delama at atos.net>, Pablo Honrubia <pablo.honrubia at ogilvy.com> Dear all, A new message from the PO that has a more thorough explanation of what they are expecting from the review. I will be on holidays starting at the end of today and for the coming week. I expect that this message will be dealt with on Tuesday at 13:00 CET. As I see this, all those in charge of the presentations should tweak them before Tuesday to comply with this. In the meantime I've added this to the background info of our google doc with the review preparation: * https://docs.google.com/document/d/16_SfW_KNMdTCzBIkb7391zm1quaAYrpqZX2thEV4jbU Best regards, Miguel -------- Mensaje reenviado -------- Asunto: RE: Review of the FI-CORE contract Fecha: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 07:47:53 +0000 De: Arian.ZWEGERS at ec.europa.eu Para: juanjose.hierro at telefonica.com, miguel.carrillopacheco at telefonica.com CC: Jesus.Villasante at ec.europa.eu, Peter.Fatelnig at ec.europa.eu, 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 FIWAREnessâ€, 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 _____________________________________________ *From:* QUENTAL MENDES Lisete (CNECT) *On Behalf Of *VILLASANTE Jesus (CNECT) *Sent:* Monday, June 15, 2015 2:44 PM *To:* 'juanjose.hierro at telefonica.com' *Cc:* FATELNIG Peter (CNECT); ZWEGERS Arian (CNECT) *Subject:* Review of the FI-CORE contract *Importance:* High Dear Juanjo, Further to our conversation during the FIWARE Accelerator meeting in Paris on 12 June, I summarise below the main guidance for the upcoming review of the FI-CORE contract. To review the activities of FI-CORE is critically necessary in order to refocus the project on todays priorities of the FIWARE programme and to allow the project to stay relevant, efficient and effective. The outcome of this may lead to an amendment of the contract with a revised technical annex. Considering the clear forward-looking objective of this ad-hoc review, it will deviate to some extent from the regular review process and focus less on progress achieved, checking deliverables and matching resources to plans (this will be done in the next annual review). Rather the specific topics for the review will concentrate on key project activities crucial for the success of the project and the FI-PPP Phase 3. The agenda of the ad-hoc review meeting and the conversation with the experts, the Commission services and the project team, will address: · _Quality of the existing set of enablers_. How best to reach a production level quality on all enablers on offer. Consider a 'service-level agreement'-like support for developers for a high level technical support to developers and accelerators. · _The capacity of the FIWARE Lab_ to satisfy the needs of the startups and SMEs in phase 3 and its evolution to pre-commercial services. Provide a reliable plan to ensure that the recent bottlenecks in networking and computing performance will not occur again. This may require a higher allocation of resources to this task. Provide appropriate access to open data sources linked into FIWARE Lab and the open access to this experimental sand-box environment by anybody (trial and community users). Present a clear plan for the use of the resources dedicated to the open call (10% of the overall budget). Notably in the context of increased communications and the support for pre-commercial FIWARE Labs. · _Sustainability_: Launching and supporting the open source community with sufficient support and resources to make it successful. The setup of a foundation before year end and 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. · _A communication strategy_ which focusses on communicating a product-like image of FIWARE, supports the open source community and launches a social media campaign to reach out world-wide. The documentation necessary for this ad-hoc review should be short but convincing in order to provide a conclusive view of the changes required at this stage and to ensure that FI-CORE fulfils the strategic tasks necessary for the PPP phase 3. Please deliver input documents around those topics at least 10 days before the review takes place. I expect that FI-CORE as project will adhere to the new work plan as of 1 July 2015. Therefore, please initiate the necessary instructions to the consortium partners to halt work in areas likely to be restructured. Finally, please make sure that this note reaches every beneficiary of the FI-CORE contract. 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