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Position Paper deadline: February 24, 2010

Eclipse is an open source community, whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle. Most Eclipse projects use specifications in some form - in many cases these are OMG specifications.

OMG™ is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry consortium which develops enterprise integration specifications, many of which have been implemented in Eclipse projects.

In 2008 the two organizations jointly ran two one-day symposia to promote and build on the partnership between Eclipse's open source software and OMG's open specifications. Following the success of these events, OMG and Eclipse will hold a further one-day symposium during the OMG Technical Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota on 23rd June 2010. The symposium will be organized as a series of discussion sessions on OMG standards and corresponding Eclipse projects, to discuss the alignment between current specifications and implemented software, and identify areas where the cooperation could be further improved in future.

Eclipse and OMG invite position papers of up to 600 words on any of the topic areas below, or any other area where an OMG specification relates to Eclipse software. The Program Committee will publish all submitted position papers, and invite some of the paper authors to lead individual discussion sessions.

This symposium is a further opportunity to participate in shaping the joint future of the Eclipse Open Source community and the OMG Open Specifications community. Please join us for stimulating technical planning and discussion in this exciting area.

Topics may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Extensibility of specifications and/or open source implementations to support
  • conformant commercial implementations
  • new application domains
  • new requirements
• Processes for evolving specifications and/or open source implementations
• Open source implementations for specifications
• Standardized models or interfaces for open source implementations
• Collaboration between open source implementations

Papers that deal with specific problems and solutions that may benefit from a wider discussion than that available though Eclipse Bug Reports or OMG Issues are particularly welcome.

Instructions

Interested individuals or organizations are invited to submit a brief (up to 600 words) position paper by 24th February 2010 using this web form (please select "Session Presentation"): http://www.omg.org/abstracts

The Program Committee will send invitations to prospective session leaders for each symposium in early March 2010. The final symposium agenda and registration details will be available on 17th March 2010 and posted at:
http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/mn/special-events/Eclipse.htm

Program Committee

Kenn Hussey, Independent
Andrew Watson, Object Management Group
Ed Willink, Thales
Ed Merks, Independent

We hope to see you at this special session. To submit presentation, click HERE.

NOTE: If you register for the Technical Meeting Week, you do not have to pay the additional fee(s) to attend any or all of the special events.  If you register only for special events, the special fees apply.