Open to Members of The Open Group

All Members of The Open Group are members of either the Customer Council or the Supplier Council.

In our All-Members meetings, the Customer Council and Supplier Council join together to invite members from all Forums and Working Groups of The Open Group to share issues and concerns that are of common interest - across all Forums and WGs.

Agenda

• Introduction of New Officers
  Customer Council: Ben Calloni (Lockheed Martin); Alan Doniger (Energistics); John Anton (Kestrel Technology) 
  Supplier Council: Chris Greenslade (Clars); Sam Ceccola (BEA Systems) 
  
• Forum Representatives to Customer & Supplier Councils
  Forum representatives ensure an effective channel for sharing issues between the Customer & Supplier Councils and Forum members. By default, as presented in the October 2006 Conference (Lisbon), Forum/WG vice-chairs are called upon as the representatives to the Councils, unless they appoint other members to fill this role. 
  
• Conference dates and Themes for 2008
  Members feedback for 2008 Conference Planning.
  
• How do we evaluate Forum/WG value?
  Assessment measures for how Forums/WGs produce value - deliverables; measuring their value to the industry 
  
• What makes a Forum/WG Effective?
  Exercise targeted at capturing the key characteristics that make a Forum/WG effective in delivering value. Outcome could be a Guide to Best Practice for Forums/WGs.

• Members Issues and Discussion
  Q&A for members to raise cross-forum/WG issues.