The main goal of the first OCA WG workshop was to make CWE projects architecture researchers/designers to meet, share their latest progress and participate in a brainstorming to define cross-project technical groups.

Author(s): Stefan Decker (NUIG), Wolfgang Prinz (FIT), Henri ter Hofte (Telin), Robert Slagter (Tellin), Marco Villa (TXT), Giovanni Giuliani (HP)

Scope of OCA Working Group

This Technical Group will focus on the development of a reference architecture for collaboration environments.
The reference architecture for collaborative environments will serve three different purposes, depending on the perspective of the people that refer to it. The reference architecture will:

1. provide a basis for describing and understanding the functions a collaborative environment provides to its human end-users.
2. provide a basis for understanding of a common high-level
   structure of collaborative environment software.

3. provide a basis for interoperability of software for collaborative environments
   

Within few years, significant social, organisational and economical changes as well as a relentless technology evolution will lead the way of working for eProfessionals into a dramatic change. People will no longer work according to chain production models but rather more as dynamically and spontaneously assembled groups of people working together in a collaboration mode, which means a seamless work to achieve common goals. The social capital will be the main driver, which means that people constitute the best asset of businesses. Professionals will spend more time in people-networking like activities than ever (i.e. on-line professional communities and social networks).

Welcome to the OCA Working Group site at www.oca-wg.org.