Greg Reemler
Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:31:21 +0000

The Event Processing Technical Society (EPTS) has been meeting, informally, for around three years.* Now there is a Call for EPTS Founding Members, from the EPTS Steering Committee and a related Members Agreement for the EPTS.
Here are my initial comments:
First, the Member Agreement calls for the EPTS steering committee, basically the same committee that has been in place for three years to date, to continue their work*for two more years before a general election.* This means that the current committee will have been in place for more than 5 years before a general election is held.
My comment is that the folks currently on the EPTS are good people, there is no doubt about this.* However, I*believe that the event processing community would be better served if a generally election was held within 3 months of formalizing the EPTS membership.
There are many reasons for doing this, and I don’t think it is necessary to describe all the benefits.* The benefits far outweight any downside, so I would urge the EPTS Steering Committee to revise the Member Agreement immediately (because the agreement was sent out before soliciting general comments from the EPTS community at large).
Second,* the Member Agreement specifies that every two years, only half of the Steering Committee will be elected.***** I disagree with this approach and think that all of the Steering Committee should be reelected every two years.**
The rationale for this is that the EPTS Steering Committee is not a governing body like the US Congress where changes in public sentiment can impact national security.** It is much better to have the entire Steering Committee up for relection every two years.***
I have quite a few other concerns the with EPTS Member Agreement.** Basically, the agreement needs to be written with an eye toward a more flexible, open and*inclusive process that puts the future of the*EPTS square into the hands of the event processing community, not a small group of well intended*folks who represent a small part of the overall event processing community and worldview.
In closing, the EPTS Membership Agreement should be rewritten and the draft should go out for open comments before sending of a final version, as was done this time.** The entire process should also be transparent, in my opinion.



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