TC Meeting - 2016-04-15

Participants

  • Daniele Gagliardi DGA
  • Stéphane Laurière SLA
  • Jean Parpaillon JPA

Minutes

Individual members

  • JPA: OW2 could provide X509 certificates. Jabber can use these certificates to encrypt the communication. OW2 has now a wildcard certificate. Jean proposes to use ejabberd (Erlang implementation, favoured over OpenFire as it consumes less resources) and had started experimenting with it. The PKI infrastructure aspect is open to suggestions. 
  • DGA: https://www.ejbca.org/ (with support from a company) could be helpful, and http://www.cacert.org/
  • Promote the members profiles on the web site using XWiki profiles
  • Highlight individual members activity, having 'Individual member of the month' on the main page for instance

Links:

Actions:

  • JPA: Continue the setup of ejabberd / Generate a few certificates to check it works /Complete the PKI options on JIRA and later on set up the PKI infrastructure
  • SLA: Add a link on OW2.org to the list of individual members profiles
  • SLA: See if anyone in the MO or in the TC is interested is conducting interviews for promoting individual members
  • SLA: See what to do with the "follow" button on the profiles / hide it for now
  • SLA: Discuss with the MO about the questions raised by Ed on the mailing-list

Open-source audio conferencing

  • DGA suggests Apache OpenMeeting http://openmeetings.apache.org/
  • SLA: Matrix Synapse looks interesting: distributed, Java, ReactJS user interface
  • Ask the TC for recommendation / feedback

New programme for students

  • General idea: paid internships with the support of OW2 for advertising the work, attracting international students, organizational and financial support
  • JPA is participating in the Google Summer of Code this year. It works like a call for projects. It's challenging for students, they have to write 2-3 pages. Groups propose some a set of topics to Google, which selects a subset of them. Each group receives 5000$ from Google. Light process, with close relation between the mentor and the students. The mentors have to validate if the students have delivered the work.
    • Payment: "Payment is in three pieces. The first payment of $500 is sent after students have remained active in their community bonding period and are on good terms with their organizations going into the start of coding. The second payment of $2250 is sent after you have passed the midterm evaluation; the final payment of $2750 is sent once you pass your final evaluation. All of these payments take a few business days to become active on your card or in your bank account if you choose direct deposit." Source: How GSoc works
  • JPA: we could focus on integration of components, using 2-3 components in an integrated way. It would highlight OW2 as an ecosystem.
  • DGA: we should emphasize the concrete advantages for companies to participate in the programme
  • DGA: we could try to strenghten our relation with unversities
  • JPA: see if IMT would be interested in involving the students / consider involving A. Levy @ IMT, who is involved in EIT Digital Idea Challenge
  • SLA: next action: come up with a draft proposal with a core group of the TC and with the MO, then circulate it with the whole TC

Accessibility initiative

  • The proponent of the initiative is welcome to invite the TC to participate.
  • There's an upcoming H2020 call on the topic of accessiblility: ICT-23 "Interfaces for accessibility - Despite progress, there are still many who are disadvantaged due to lack of accessible and usable systems. Among those are persons with neurological conditions and disorders as well as cognitive disabilities."

Forge v2 / GitLab

Actions:

  • ALL: Continue the evaluation of GitLab using this test instance

OpenPaas license

Actions:

  • SLA to move OpenPaas to archive

Next meeting

There is an overlap with AppHub meetings, let's shift the week we meet if possible. Next meeting: Fri. 22/04 11:00 am - 12:00 am CET