TinyOS Alliance WG Report

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TinyOS Alliance WG Report
http//www.tinyos.net/scoop/special/tinyos_allianc
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• David E. Culler,
• Alliance WG, Chair

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Alliance Working Group

• Charter
• Formulate a legal and organizational framework
  for an alliance that can facilitate the continued
  advancement of the open embedded network
  ecosystem around TinyOS and support the
  activities, interactions, and development of the
  worldwide academic and industrial TinyOS
  community.
• Members
• David Culler (Ch) - UCB/Arch Rock
  culler_at_cs.berkeley.edu
• Ralph Kling - Crossbow rkling_at_xbow.com
• Adam Wolisz - TU Berlin awo_at_ieee.org
• Philippe Bonnet - Diku bonnet.p_at_gmail.com
• Deborah Estrin - UCLA destrin_at_cs.ucla.edu
• Matt Welsh - Harvard mdw_at_cs.harvard.edu
• Rob Szewczyk - Moteiv rob_at_moteiv.com
• Jack Stankovic - UVA stankovic_at_cs.virginia.edu
• Ramesh Govindan - USC ramesh_at_usc.edu
• Jeonghoon Kang - KETI budge_at_keti.re.kr
• Lama Nachman - Intel lama.nachman_at_intel.com

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IP Notice (as per TTX-IV)
Note Well Any submission to the TinyOS Alliance
intended by the Contributor for publication as
all or part of a TinyOS Enhancement Proposal
(TEP) and any statement made within the context
of a TinyOS Alliance activity is considered an
"TinyOS Alliance Contribution". Such statements
include oral statements in TinyOS Alliance
sessions, as well as written and electronic
communications made at any time or place, which
are addressed to -the TinyOS Alliance plenary
session,-any TinyOS Alliance working group or
portion thereof,-the TinyOS SG or any member
thereof on behalf of the TinyOS SG,-any TinyOS
Alliance mailing list, including the TinyOS
Alliance list itself, any working group or design
team list, or any other list functioning under
TinyOS Alliance auspices, Statements made
outside of an TinyOS Alliance session, mailing
list or other function, that are clearly not
intended to be input to an TinyOS Alliance
activity, group or function, are not TinyOS
Alliance Contributions in the context of this
notice. A participant in any TinyOS Alliance
activity is deemed to accept all TinyOS Alliance
rules of process. A participant in any TinyOS
Alliance activity acknowledges that written,
audio and video records of meetings may be made
and may be available to the public.
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TinyOS Alliance Organization Structure
Alliance Members
Non-Profit 50c3

• Alliance WG currently serving as proto-SG

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Update

• Legal documents completed. Filing in process
• Alliance WG functioning as proto-SG
• New Working Groups
• Tools, Documentation, Storage, Sim
• Inactive Working Groups
• TinyOS 1.2, Testbeds, 8051
• TEP process moving forward reasonably
• Strong working group participation
• Transition to TinyOS 2.0 Complete
• Plan for TinyOS 2.1 gt Safety

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TinyOS Alliance

• Ultimately is what you make of it
• Alliance WG has developed the legal and
  organization framework.
• Technically focused volunteer-based organization.
• Keep legalese to a minimum.
• Facilitate technical excellence and community

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Call for participation

• Officers
• Directors
• WG Chairs
• At-large Steering Group members
• TEP Shepherds
• TEP Reviewers
• Volunteers for various functions
• Helping hands
• mailto tinyos-alliance_at_millennium.berkeley.edu

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Mission Statement

• provide a forum to facilitate
• the continued growth of a healthy TinyOS
  developer and user community with support for
  innovation as well as industry advancement,
• the development and maintenance of a stable,
  technically-sound base of TinyOS technology and
  surrounding tools through the creation of
  standard interfaces and protocols, vetted
  extensions, open reference implementations,
  technical documents, testing and verification
  suites, and educational materials,
• the contribution of innovative technology from a
  world-wide research community and the maturation
  and dissemination of these contributions, and
• the promotion of the technology, the community,
  and the impact of networked embedded systems.