US Federal Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Community of Practice (Co

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 31^st 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 23^rd) 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 23^rd-24^th. Ron Schmelzer of ZapThink will be giving the opening keynote on May 23^rd.

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

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 23^rd) 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