[Tinyos-alliance] Membership and structure

[Philippe Bonnet]

Dear all,

In general, my position is that we should follow an incremental approach.
The evolution of TinyOS has been a great success. We should build on that.

- Membership:

(1) I believe we should not change the way individuals get developer access.
People send requests. Get approved/rejected. No fees. They become members of
the alliance.

(2) I am not sure we need corporate membership. It all depends on the
alliance structure and on funding. It might be that the structural costs are
low enough so that corporate membership is not justified. We might get a
long way with sponsoring around TinyOS events. In any case, I do not think
money should buy technical influence.

- Structure

I think we should stick to the formula that has garanteed the success of
TinyOS with:
- a steering comittee that follows up on David's role
- an office that follows up on Kristin's role
- working groups: a group of developers that discuss interfaces, implement
code, write TEPs.

I believe that the steering comittee should be organized like a conference
steering comittee or journal board, where co-optation is used to design new
comitee members, comittee members are in place for a given period (say 3
years), a 1/3 of the members are renewed each year.

The office should be the responsibility of one or several persons, possibly
paid by the alliance.

The working groups are responsible for the technical aspects (including a
stable release). Following today's model, the steering comitte creates
working groups. A member, designed by the steering comittee is in charge of
animating the activities within the working group. I guess that the working
group lifecycle will determine the form of organization of the working
group. Working group leaders report to the steering comittee as well as to
the TinyOS community at large (today's TTX).

Best regards,
Philippe.
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