Europe Local Chapter

What is the ELC?

The Europe Local Chapter organizes activities carried out to contribute to the sustainable development of business ecosystems on the European scale, in a business neutral way. It represents OW2 at a regional level under supervision of the Management Office. In a Local Chapter, a group of OW2 members join their efforts to promote the goals of the consortium within a community characterized by its geography or its language.
For more information, read the Europe Local Chapter Proposal

Strategy

The main activities of the Local Chapter will encompass:

• Leading an academic and business community;
• Cooperating with other open source organizations;
• Promoting the consortium;
• Developing tools and services for the OW2 Local Chapter community;
• Fostering contribution to the code base.

Benefits

Local Chapters offer a number of benefits to the local OW2 members:

• A contact point for local community;
• A platform for local networking;
• Communication and dissemination channel;
• International cooperation opportunities in the open source middleware field;
• A way to leverage ideas, investigate and implement actions, share results.

Community

ELC Members
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Call for contributions:
~~Dear OW2 Members,
The OW2 Europe Local Chapter management team would like to call all OW2 members willing to:

• Help the development of OW2 in Europe;
• Participate to OW2 activities in NESSI OSS WG.~~

Activities

Next meetings:

• 2008-09-17 & 18 ? face to face - Kick-off meeting, INRIA Paris (to be confirmed)
  
  Meeting minutes:
• 2008-06-27 - Audio Conference: The calendar
• 2008-05-14 - face to face, INRIA Grenoble
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  Workpackages and tasks:
  The LC activities will be instantiated through work packages (WP); themselves further divided in tasks as needed. Each WP will have an assigned leader, responsible for managing action, driving progress and reporting. The initial set of WPs is described here after:
• WP1: Management, strategy and roadmap
• WP2: Linking with communities and organizations
• WP3: Tools and services