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Interactions with open-source software:
- How should open-source maintenance be sustained?
- What are some strategies for taming the complexity of open standards?
- How has standards-compliant software contributed to the development of a standard? And where/how has it been a hindrance?
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Promoting adoption:
- What are strategies for accelerating adoption that have worked in the past?
- How do we train for use of open standards? How do we fit this into a busy curriculum?
- What are some of the arguments/resistance that you encounter against the adoption of standards?
- How does a standard become the standard (in your experience)?
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Bringing data standards to the cloud:
- What are some benefits/challenges of bringing existing data standards to the cloud?
- What is driving movement to the cloud? Is it driven by industry or by the community?
- What are examples of top-down standards that have been defined by cloud providers?