US Federal Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Community of Practice (CoP) - Come One, Come All

[This announcement is 
being sent to multiple pertinent TCs, to include (at a minimum) SOA-RM, ebXML 
Registry, E-Government, and WS-CAF. I am cc'ing OASIS staff only on this 
instance to make them aware of this new SOA initiative sponsored by the US 
federal government]

 

This e-mail is to 
announce a recently initiated effort sponsored by the US federal government: The 
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Community of Practice 
(CoP).

Below is 
a description of this initiative, 
along with pertinent links, details 
on an upcoming conference and a 
just-announced conference call at 11am US EST tomorrow (March 23rd) regarding a 
"SOA Demo" effort within the initiative. Please 
let me know if you have any questions.

 

Thanks,

Joe

 

ANNOUNCEMENT:

 

The 
US federal government has recently 
initiated a SOA Community of Practice (CoP[1]) under the Federal CIO Council. 
All are invited to participate in this effort. There are no restrictions 
whatsoever for participation (do not have to be based the US, do not have to be a US federal 
government employee or contractor, etc.). Come one, come all – the more the 
merrier.

 

There is also 
an e-mail forum archive [2] available for this CoP for those who would like to 
get a sense of the activity thus far (please keep in mind that we are just 
beginning this initiative, so the activity will grow over 
time).

 

More details 
below – please note the deadline of March 31st for a Call for 
Presentations for an upcoming conference that is described further below 
(“IMPORTANT NOTE #1”), as well as the conference call tomorrow (March 
23rd) for the SOA demo (“IMPORTANT NOTE #2”).

 

Upcoming 
conference and Call For Presentations:

 

-          
The SOA CoP is 
conducting a “SOA For E-Government” conference[3] in the Washington DC area on May 
23rd-24th. Ron Schmelzer of ZapThink will be giving the 
opening keynote on May 23rd.

-          
IMPORTANT NOTE 
#1: A Call for Presentations has recently been announced[4], with a deadline of 
March 31st.

 

SOA 
Demo:

 

-          
The CoP has 
also recently undertaken the creation of a SOA demo[5] whose purpose is to 
demonstrate the business value and technical feasibility of SOA, with various 
scenarios involving an example “SOA Community” that collaborates to achieve a 
business goal. The demo will utilize OMG’s Model Driven Architecture (MDA) to 
model the community and produce WSDL-SOA interfaces.

-          
IMPORTANT NOTE 
#2: A conference call for the SOA demo has just been set for tomorrow (Thur, 
March 23rd) at 11am US EST[6]. All are invited and encouraged to 
join.

 

[1] http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?AnnouncementofSOACoP

[2] http://colab.cim3.net/forum/soa-forum/

[3] http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SOAforEGovernment_2006_05_2324

[4] http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SOAforEgovernmentProposals

[5] http://colab.cim3.net/file/work/SOACoP/SOA%20Community%20of%20Practice%20Demo.doc

[6] http://colab.cim3.net/forum/soa-forum/2006-03/msg00018.html

 

Kind Regards,

Joseph Chiusano

Associate

Booz Allen Hamilton

 

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