Spreadsheet: 011ba98d-4461-4966-a942-cce5be86d8d7
Sheet: Sheet1

CHARTER
Provide IT and Enterprise management with accurate, vendor-neutral information that will demystify IT's top cloud-related concerns.
GOALS
(1) Develop and/or disseminate CC knowledge
(2) Facilitate CC information exchange
(3) Enable efficient access to CC information
(4) Provide CC technical guidance
Note: In order to accomplish these we will recruit volunteer authors, practitioners, researchers, etc.; and will coordinate CC activities across CS Boards (EAB, PUB, SA, TAB, PA, MGA), CS TCs, and and IEEE CCI.
OBJECTIVES | Priority | CS CC STC Group/ Chair | Status
o Establish an online presence  (e.g. Working Area; Blog; social networks – FB, [NAME], meetup; open source communities - OpenStack) to engage CS members and other interested professionals. | High - for Working Area and Blog  Medium - for rest | Chair
For Goal #1 (Develop and/or disseminate CC knowledge):
o Initiate development of Courses and Webinars. | High | Education | Under development
o Support CS standards activities in terms of visibility. | High | Standards | In Working Area, …
o Initiate development of a BoK. | High | BoK | Initiated
o Initiate development of a Newsletter. | High | Newsletter | Discussions
For Goal #2 (Facilitate CC information exchange):
o Initiate technical co-sponsorships with new and existing conferences | High | Chair | Initiated
o Identify focal conferences  (e.g., CLOUD, CloudCom), workshops, forums to collaborate with and to attract members: --> Organize panels, presentations, contests, etc. to supplement events activities. | Meduim | Conferences | Discussions
o Identify TCs involved in CC activities to collaborate with and to attract members: --> Organize collaborative activities. | High | Conferences
o Identify focal publications (e.g. the new Transactions on CC and CC Magazine) to collaborate with and to attract members: --> Organize contests (e.g. best 10 articles on Xplore). | Meduim | Publishing | Discussions
o Initiate collaboration with industry fora ( e.g. DMTF, CSA): --> web sites content, phone calls to explore possibilities. | Meduim | Conferences | None
For Goal #3 (Enable efficient access to CC information):
o Initiate contributions to IEEE CCI Web Portal. |  | WebPortal
o Initiate contributions to Computing Now. |  | WebPortal
o Initiate development/reuse of an efficient search engine. |  | Publishing
o Initiate proper tagging of CS CC publications. | High | Publishing | Initiated Key Words set
For Goal #4 (Provide CC technical guidance):
o Initiate collection of Best Practices from existing and under development CC standards. | High | Standards
o Initiate development of a Framework and a [NAME] and vendor-neutral Guidelines for cloud adoption.
o Initiate development of Guidelines and Suggestions on government policies and regulations related to CC. | Low
o Initiate development of [NAME] based on resources from industry fora ( e.g. DMTF, CSA).
o Initiate a consultants' clearing house and a mechanism to vet consultants, possibly CSDP/CSDA holders
o Initiate creation of a simple testbed with free CC resources for education purposes. | High | Testbed
Note: Following consensus on Goals and Objectives of CC STC, we have to identify specific projects with expected outcomes and timeline; form a taskforce and designate a leader for each project. The leaders then will seek external expertise and gather volunteers to accomplish the tasks.