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 | Based on [NAME]'s, San's, [NAME]'s input: | Notes from 9/11/12 | [NAME] | [NAME] | San | [NAME]
Goals | (high level, specific & explicit to distinguish CS CC STC from other communities/organizations; long term, not strictly measurable generic actions) | George: IT Prof, students |  | prioritize what would be a first step, and build upon others | This range of objectives and tasks, could serve as a road map. | I especially like San's idea of establishing a road map, (which [NAME] also hinted at), so that we can identify short term deliverables but keep in mind long term directions (and periodically vet them for ongoing viability).
 | Main Goal Become a premier community for CC consumers. Provide IT and Enterprise management with accurate, vendor-neutral information that will demystify IT's top cloud-related concerns (e.g. ensuring adequate security, framing service level agreements, impacts on staffing, and enabling rapid scaling – up and down). |  |  | Charter: Provide IT and Enterprise management with accurate, vendor-neutral information that will demystify IT's top cloud-related concerns. | timing
 | (1) Develop and/or disseminate CC knowledge |  | IEEExplore courses and articles | Focus the goals to #1 and #3.
 | (2) Facilitate CC information exchange |  | sponsor CC symposia, conferences, workshops
 | (3) Enable efficient access to CC information |  | provide free access to non-IEEE members of a subset of the knowledge
 | (4) Provide CC technical guidance |  | provide a consultants' clearing house and a mechanism to vet consultants, possibly CSDP/CSDA holders
 | 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. |  | Note: Have we gone out and presented these [NAME] initiatives to our Industry Advisory Board?
Objectives | (mid to short term measurable specific actions) for 2012 and 2013
 | Related to Main Goal: o Establish an online presence to engage CS members and other interested professionals (e.g. Working Area; social networks – FB, [NAME], meetup; open source communities - OpenStack). Note: Measure increase in target audience. |  | requires an open IEEE access point or a strongly moderated LinkedIn group |  |  | consider something like we do with [NAME] blog, if we could ID someone of significant stature in CC
 | Related to Goal #1: | [NAME], [NAME] - higher priority than #2; [NAME] -- later facilitate
 | o Initiate the development of Courses and Webinars. |  | in the works
 | o Initiate the development of a BoK. |  | Why do we need a separate BoK for the Cloud? |  | San - now, other wise the significanse will be lost  Money - get ahead of the curve | orignally skeptical of a CCBOK, now that we've come around to a focus on enterprise IT and to the idea of a wiki-like BOK, I can see its potential, especially with a glossary --more than the list of terms in the NIST taxonomy. It could point to the IT BOK as appropriate, just as the ITBOK will point to other, more in-depth BOKs like the SW extension to the PMBOK, the BABOK, etc.
 | o Initiate creation of a simple testbed with free CC resources for education purposes. |  | this goes under #4
 | Related to Goal #2:
 | o Identify focal conferences, workshops, forums (new or existing) to attract members (e.g., CLOUD, CloudCom) to collaborate with and to attract members. | Mooney - IEEE foundation | there are at least 5 Cloud Conferences internationally every month. They are being run by for profit organizations. I don't think our budget has room for surveying the conference market. |  |  | could ID a couple of big IT-centric ones and look into some sort of collaboration with them to establish our presence. (We do have a history of "technical co-sponsorship" to follow.)  - the idea of getting sponsorships for contests could apply to conferences, as well.
 | - Organize panels, presentations, contests (e.g. best author), etc. to supplement events activities. | [NAME] - workshop |  | organizing panels, presentations, etc. is a good focus for a mediator type role. But if we go back to what "IT and Enterprise management" wants, then the research focus becomes lower priority. | contests - could have contest for specific projects, apps, etc. if we can get sponsors.  - no need for contest for best papers at IEEE Explore (now a days there are too many submissions on CC to IEEE EXplore; selecting 10 best among them would be a difficult task; the efforts wouldn't be worthwhile). | Similarly, research into failure points could be of interest to the IT community and enterprise execs. [NAME] has shown interest into developing research in IT, so that might be a starting point, since we can't fund research ourselves.
 | 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) to supplement publications activities.
 | o Initiate collaboration with industry fora ( e.g. DMTF, CSA). | [NAME] - web sites content, phone calls to explore possibilities.
 | Related to Goal #3:
 | o Initiate contributions to IEEE CCI Web Portal.
 | o Initiate the development of an efficient search engine. | [NAME] - using Computing Now
 | o Initiate proper tagging of CS CC publications. | [NAME] - update taxonomy;  Wes - companies  - non- structured data search; [NAME] - updating tags backwards is difficult
 | o Initiate development of CC Newsletter.
 | Related to Goal #4:
 | o Support CS standards activities in terms of visibility. |  |  | if we are targeting the practitioner, then to define "standards" is out of scope - Yes, some "cloud provider" vendors want to have a hand in creating standards, mainly so that they can make sure that their products provide interoperability. But "cloud consumers" just want the thing to work. |  | standards are of interest to IT as cloud consumers, especially in the areas of interop and security.   We need to a better job in the CS of making folks aware of our standards - it's been a closed environment way too long.
 | o Initiate collection of Best Practices from existing and under development CC standards. | [NAME] - easier to derive best practices for IT moving into [NAME]; Stabdards group + San + Dave Guevara (Gartner)
 | 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. | [NAME] - way down the road;  Wes - agree
 | o Initiate development of [NAME] based on resources from industry fora ( e.g. DMTF, CSA).
 | o Initiate creation of a simple testbed with free CC resources for education purposes. | [NAME] - talk to [NAME]