It has been very interesting to see many of the european cms vendors and implementors on one table, interested to coorperate to make progresses in semantic knowledge management.
Stephane Croisir, co-founder of jahia made his position clear to market driven killer apps based on research results, instead of the other way around.
Johan Janssens, joomlatools, empathized the importance of small but continuous steps in the progress of the open source iks stack.
Shubham Nagar, InfoAxon CEO, mentioned the importance of a common understanding of business problems and use cases.
I talked to John Pereira, to contribute to the way this EU project is set up: A wiki and a source repository is a must have from the beginning. Already on day 1 many cms vendors had a lot of ideas (use cases, existing libraries and toolkits, etc) to contribute. If i'd manage this project, i'd setup a wiki with a couple of samples of good use cases and libraries, and encourage the participants to contribute. At this early stage contributing business problems, use cases and references to existing tools would already be a big gain. A simple facebook like voting (thumbs up) would be everything you need to determine the communities opinion.
I'm looking forward to day 2 ... Let's see what the IKS guys have prepared ...
29.5.2009
