[Fiware-tools] Fwd: [Fiware-wpl] Notes of the preliminary feedback of the review meeting

[Davide Dalle Carbonare]

Dear Partners,
     I apologize, I just discovered that this mail hasn't been forwarded 
to you.

BR
Davide


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Subject: 	[Fiware-wpl] Notes of the preliminary feedback of the review 
meeting
Date: 	Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:51:02 +0200
From: 	Juanjo Hierro <jhierro at tid.es>
To: 	fiware-wpl at lists.fi-ware.eu <fiware-wpl at lists.fi-ware.eu>, 
fiware-wpa at lists.fi-ware.eu <fiware-wpa at lists.fi-ware.eu>, 
fiware-wpl at lists.fi-ware.eu <fiware-wpl at lists.fi-ware.eu>, 
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Dear colleagues,

   Here it goes my notes regarding the early feedback provided by the 
EC/reviewers after the review meeting.

   Overall statement: Technology is there but go to market requires 
improvement.

   Positive points:

  * Technology work has been improved and this has to be recognized
  * New technology implementations - a whole good package
  * GEs with potential are there
  * I2ND has improved a lot addressing concerns in the past despite
    still some references to legacies
  * IoT has improved also a lot - more focus between integration of IoT
    and BigData is necessary
  * They look for the delivery of the State of the Art deliverable as a
    mean to check how the GEi owners see their GEis benchmark with those
    of incumbent players
  * Attention for smart cities is welcome because it helps to bring focus
  * Live Demo is good - lot of GEis - it shows that integration was not
    that much an issue as reviewers initially were afraid
  * The potential of some GEis is backed by the market analysis
  * Market analysis is very good deliverable
  * Seems not to be big delays regarding delivery of Release 2 - which
    is excellent - they feel more confident that the Release 2 will be
    ready for the launch of OIL in the planned dates
  * OIL is the very focus and that is right
  * Indeed, they see a real commitment of the consortium towards launch
    of the FI-WARE OIL in the Campus Party (providing the pressure they
    hadn't manage to achieve during previous reviews)
  * Impression of team work
  * Consortium shows confidence and commitment specially certain
    individuals
  * They appreciate that we are looking for ways to on-board new
    projects / third-parties although we have to be careful (see not
    so-positive points)
  * Overall: quite good impression


   Not so-positive points:

  * Some missing deliverables
  * Periodic report should be available prior the meeting
  * Backlog might be more clean but there are some indications that it
    still requires some work
  * Technical roadmap still a wish list
  * Open Specs that were rejected were improved although still they are
    difficult to read.   This doesn't only apply to document
    deliverables but also the wiki.
  * Validation has to be improved.   Acceptable that is how it was
    defined in the AB but some improvement is possible there - note: I
    believe that the recommendations by the reviewers to the EC,
    explained by Man-sze Li (see below) may have to do with this
    opportunity to improve
  * Third party involvement: they like to see the deliverable submitted
  * Some concerns about limiting third parties to Campus Party is like
    putting all eggs in one basket so that we have to avoid that.
  * FI-WARE Catalogue is the window to the world and has to be more
    appealing and, of course, clear terms and conditions should be there
    for the GEis
  * Concerns about attitude towards some recommendations ("we are big so
    we decide") - note: I guess that this mostly apply to the
    accountability issue
  * More needs and effort on evangelism
  * About expanding FI-WARE to allow other GEis and overall othe GEis
    from third parties you have to be careful to avoid that what you are
    going to provide now gets diluted - Useful to have some
    guidelines/rules about what will be considered a GE
  * Some concern about how FI-WARE can really gain the attention of the
    campuseros community - you should find a strategy to connect to the
    geeks that attend, maybe involve people (the youngers in your
    development teams) that can speak their same language


   Formal request by the EC: Each company has to submit their individual 
exploitation plans in few weeks.   Even those who said they would not be 
different to the already submitted (a letter stating so would be 
enough).   Don't need many pages, just some paragraphs.   Information 
will be treated as confidential.

   Regarding acceptance/rejection of deliverables they said that they 
haven't finished their evaluation and that they couldn't provide us a 
report yet.


   Man-Sze Li took the floor and informed us about recommendations that 
the reviewers will officially submit to the EC.   In particular the 
following two:

  * They will recommend to the EC that it takes actions to ensure that
    UC projects really assume their mission to use as many GEis as they
    can, validate GEis, provide feedback and work together with FI-WARE
    to solve those issues that may appear.
  * They will recommend to the EC that it takes actions to ensure that
    the  OIL/XiFi facilities will continue available after the FI-WARE
    and XiFi projects finish


   I believe this is all.   If someone else took more notes, please 
circulate so that we can all share them.

   Last but not least, let me thank to all of you for your contribution 
to this review.   Let's cross fingers for the best.

   Cheers,

-- Juanjo

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