Positive discussion towards formalising the structure of the CCIF was temporarily derailed (again) by Jason Meiers pushing his SEMP agenda but will hopefully recover now that he has been effectively (temporarily) banned. Time is of the essence however as the CCIF now has to live up to its self-assigned deadline: Thursday's CCIF Wall Street event; all eyes are on it to quickly get back on its feet after a stumble and deliver a suitable venue for productive collaboration between vendors and users.
Meanwhile the "committee" (Sam Charrington, Reuven Cohen, Dave Niesen and Jesse Silver) are all(?) running around at the Cloud Computing Expo in New York City doing what they do best: networking and evangelising. I get the feeling though that something is afoot and a recent post from Jesse Silver was particularly insightful:
Though, my thought is that the CCIF could stay more community oriented thanThis looks like step 5 of my "On the Open Cloud Manifesto, Private Cloud Cabal and CCIF-NG" post:
"trade organization" oriented, so the CCIF should probably count more on
volunteer work and small financial contributions.
This leaves room for another, larger trade organization with a larger budget
than CCIF should handle, that the CCIF partners with in some way, forming
the fully open community arm of the industry.
- Use the momentum to announce a Cloud Computing Alliance which you will own and operate, also developed in secret and inviting only the usual suspects (or an Open Cloud Alliance - I'm not sure which it is yet, though a contact at Salesforce who should know wasn't aware of any involvement).
Conversely the formation of a new "alliance" without including the existing CCIF community would constitute gross ignorance of the needs of the users and shunning of the greater community for the benefit of an elite group of vendors. The age of old-school top-down standards organisations like DMTF and IEEE is drawing to a close and it's time for the community to (quickly) pull together and get on with the job. Enough is enough.
I urge everyone to forget about your biases, conflicts and agendas and work together to create "a "melting pot" where both [users and vendors] come together to share ideas". I've had enough of waiting for something I can confidently throw my weight behind and I know I'm not alone on this.
Sam
Update: Interesting first response refers to this tweet: "#Cloud Expo. Cloud Manifesto did the job and got attention, now community getting its act together with a Cloud Trade Org. TBA Weds". I'm right more often than I'm wrong but I sincerely hope this is an exception. You can follow the discussion here.
Update: If you're a blogger/journo already thinking about spilling some digital ink on this topic then please don't write a CCIF is dead article just yet... if this doesn't come together by the weekend then you can write what you like but I'm going to give it another 24-48 hours to come good. We've waited a year already so what's another few days between friends.
Update: A Cloud Computing Alliance group has already been created:
The Cloud Computing Alliance (CCA) is an industry trade organization focused on advocating the adoption and use of Cloud Computing and related of technologies. The CCA focuses on building industry consensus in a formal setting.
Update: Google Group was deleted within minutes of posting about it. There's still a Twitter account though.
1 comments:
surely they woulnd't be stupid enough to pull the same stunt twice in a row - talk about career suicide!
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