[Fiware-wpa] Fwd: Notes from our confcall

[Juanjo Hierro]

Hi all,

  Please find enclosed the quick notes of our confcall with Arian this afternoon.

  Unfortunately, we didn't get a definitive response regarding replanning of deliverables due in month 12.   Arian essentially argued that he has to agree on a decision with the rest of POs of the UC projects.

  Given said this, I have the feeling that there wouldn't be so much trouble on his side.   So we will depend very much on the POs of UC projects (and I guess they will check with their respective UC projects).   This except for one deliverable (D.2.5.a "Third Party Innovation Enablement in FI-WARE") which he wants to get delivered on due time, so we need to face how to address it.   He argues that he may accept something rather preliminary, which could be enhanced in following releases, but something reviewers can take a look at and comment in month 12.

  I plan to send an email to members of the FI-PPP AB regarding this proposal and our suggestion to go for the re-planning.   I will forward a copy of this message.    I would rather encourage those of you who are involved in UC projects (or have some contacts in them within your company) to lobby for accepting the suggested re-planning.

  You will see the results of some other discussions in these notes.

  Best regards,

-- Juanjo


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Subject:        Notes from our confcall
Date:   Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:59:34 +0200
From:   Juanjo Hierro <jhierro at tid.es><mailto:jhierro at tid.es>
To:     Arian.ZWEGERS at ec.europa.eu<mailto:Arian.ZWEGERS at ec.europa.eu> <Arian.ZWEGERS at ec.europa.eu><mailto:Arian.ZWEGERS at ec.europa.eu>, FI-WARE project EC mailbox <INFSO-ICT-285248 at ec.europa.eu><mailto:INFSO-ICT-285248 at ec.europa.eu>
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Dear Arian,

  Following are my quick notes on our conversation today:

  *   Proposal on replanning of deliverables due in month 12 and 15 (mail sent by Juanjo on April 4th, 06:52am):
     *   Replanning of deliverables may be acceptable under the argument we need to focus on improving communication/interaction with UC projects, and for this, two full-week educational sessions have been proposed at the last FI-PPP AB meeting: one taken place the week of May 21st and another one the week of June 4th.    However the decision would impact the whole programme and therefore Arian has to check with rest of POs.   Formal response to be given by the EC early next week.
     *   Juanjo points out that the replanning will not affect the overall duration of projects which may still remain the same (though flexibility should be given to UC projects so that they could extend their duration about three months if necessary)
     *   Decision on two deliverables (D.2.5.a "Third Party Innovation Enablement in FI-WARE" and D.2.6.a "State of the Art Analysis") may be taken independently from the UC projects because it will not impact them.   Despite Arian doesn't have so much problem to accept delaying D.2.6.a to month 21 as suggested, he would not accept the same treatment with D.2.5.a which should be kept closer to month 12 as initially scheduled.   Arian to come with a decision on final date that would work for both deliverables.
  *   FI-WARE Amendment 2:
     *   About subcontracting of TU Berlin by DT: not acceptable from Arian's point of view because it breaks the rules for subcontracting defined in guidelines defined by the EC.   On the other hand, Telefonica (endorsed by the FI-WARE PCC) wishes DT to exercise control and become responsible about what TU Berlin will do, which is something you wouldn't achieve by allowing TU Berlin to become full beneficiaries.   Telefonica will explore whether bringing them as Third Party may work
     *   Subcontracting of Red.es under OTHER instead of RTD: It was finally agreed that part of the activity of Red.es can be justified under OTHER since a significant part of the infrastructure provided by Red.es, for which their services will be hired, is going to be there just for collaboration/networking purposes: allocate the necessary infrastructure that would allow the FI-WARE Testbed to scale and give service not only to UC and trial projects within the program but third parties through the FI-WARE Open Innovation Lab.   All this beyond what is actually needed for testing/validating the software.   Juanjo to write an email to Arian elaborating on this justification and providing a rationale on what % of the amount subcontracted to Red.es should be under OTHER vs RTD
     *   Availability of infrastructure put in place by Red.es beyond duration of the FI-WARE project: We should include text in the DoW explaining how the infrastructure can be used for purposes of the program beyond duration of the FI-WARE project.   Telefonica will come with a proposed text agreed with Red.es
     *   Structure of the Scientific and Market Advisory Councils: we don't know why the number of members of both councils were reduced.   Telefonica will check what was the rationale behind and update Arian.   Names of final members of the Scientific Council should be incorporated in the DoW.
  *   Selection of reviewers for the first FI-WARE Open Call:
     *   We will send a initial list to Arian tomorrow morning and he will get back to us adding some new candidates or suggesting dropping some of the ones originally proposed.
     *   We will use the list produced by Arian to send an email where we will check availability of candidate evaluators during the week when evaluation of proposals was planned.
     *   Based on received responses, we together with Arian will make the final selection of evaluators

  If you believe I haven't captured something properly or have missed some point, just let me know.

  Best regards,

-- Juanjo Hierro

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