EMIWG/Face2Face-EclipseCon2009

Face 2 Face Meeting Logistics

Date: March 23, 2009

Time: 09:00am-12:00pm

Location: Hyatt Regency Santa Clara, Camino Real Room

Agenda: Face-to-Face Meeting of the Pulsar Workgroup

Please Note, Monday is also the day of the Eclipse Members Meeting.

The Mobile Industry Working Group meeting is parallel to the "New Member Jumpstart" meeting, assuming most members of the EMIWG have been longer time members in Eclipse.

Review Meeting Agenda (Draft v3.0) (Dino: 9:00 - 9:15)

9:00 - 9:15 Welcome and Round Table introductions

Brief Overview of Pulsar: Components, Roles and Responsibilities (Christian: 9:15 - 9:30)

Create a common language for the meeting, define Components and Roles

• Pulsar IDE extensions
• Pulsar Packaged Product
• Pulsar SDK extensions

• Pulsar Server Hosting infrastructure
  • Login to servers
  • Licenses

• Pulsar deployment and testing
  • Of the packaged IDE Product
  • Of the SDK extension packs

Strategy Workshop - The Four Pillars of Focus (Dino: 9:30-10:00)

Roadmap - Strawman of Roadmap

• Survey – Priorities, JavaME, Web, Native, Other
• What is our strategy to combine Java/Native/Web development focus
  • Parallel workstreams? how to maximize synergy
  • Goal: (1) download covering all 3 areas, or separate downloads?

Product, Pulsar Platform Implementation

• • Topics covered in Technical Work stream

Best Practices (relevant to Application developer) - Brainstorm

• Documentation/Training
• Test Suites (might include references to Java Verified, etc)
• Sample code
• Technical Support forums

Promotion – Brainstorm

• First step – Pulsar microsite?
• Pulsar platform – Branding (eg OEM SDKs)
  • What are our needs
  • How do we address them
    • Extension point API
    • Packaged Product Configuration, Splash Screen, etc.

Review of past Action Items (10:00 - 10:15)

Device properties Database

Craig, Gorkam to update team: Can Craig contribute an initial dataset?

Technical Workshop (With Scope of the Galileo Time Frame) (Christian, Gustavo: 10:15 - 12:00)

Pulsar Galileo Packaged Product ()

• Demo of prototype implementation

• Comparison Demo vs. "ideal" Pulsar Product

• List of to-do tasks

Pulsar SDK Extension Packs ()

• How to create

• How to host

• What the SDK providers need to watch out for

Pulsar Server Setup & Maintainance

Gustavo, Craig: API discussion for Pulsar Platform

• Extension points
• Packaging