[Concordia] Proposed agenda for 29 Jul 2008 Concordia communitycall

[McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)]

> Figured I would at least respond to one snippet (below). Liberty
> provides benefits to its members but isn't organized to assist any one
> particular vertical. Consider that I am in the insurance vertical and
> would like to figure out some notion of community formation with 250
> other insurance carriers in the United States (none of which belong to
> Liberty). Of course, I could probably encourage them to join, but this
> would require actual contact information which I believe vendors  
> such as
> Microsoft, Oracle, Sun, etc have but aren't necessarily sharing and
> therefore the question of how community formation should occur still
> stands.
>
> Let's also disclaim that there is no association in our vertical  
> (ACORD
> exists but not all players participate) nor is there any great way of
> making relationships happen (state insurance commissioners may know  
> all
> the business players but not the ones that would participate  
> technically
> in listservs here).
>
>
> ----
>
> 2. Guidance on how community formation should work, the  
> responsibilities
> of vendors to make introductions, etc. For example, let's say we use  
> an
> Oracle product for federation. How should Oracle help introduce us to
> others that also use Oracle products. More about synergies and
> matchmaking while discovering potential distinct opportunities to
> federate vs leaving it solely as a business relationship problem.
> Federation can be top-down, bottom-up or middle-out. Need approaches  
> for
> all three.
> <<That's what many of us deployers use Liberty for but may not be the
> answer you are looking for:-).. I guess you are looking for the User
> Group concept??.. >>
>
>
>
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