It has been a very good year for me and my family. Both my wife and I retired after forty years of working, took 6 months off, enjoyed our new grandson and now I am back to work at an extremely interesting job.

The EWITA site has had a significant redesign and restructure making it more professional looking, and I have enjoyed working on it. However, with my new job, I find that I am not spending as much time as I would like to keep it up.

I have gotten a lot of positive feed back on the site, and have done some analysis on the mailing list, take a look at the article below. If you would like to get a white paper, article or just a question out to a wide variety of technical people, why not use the site and this newsletter to do it?

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Well, as an end of year exercise, I tried to do an analysis of my mailing list. Briefly here’s what I found:

• Total number on the list: 219
• Total who are using private mailing addresses or are not further identified: 51
• Other than US: 27 from Canada to Zaire to Brazil to Finland
• Vendors: 13
• State Employees: 69 from Arkansas to Washington of these 60 are California
• Registered .ORG: 5
• US Military .MIL: 3
• US Government .GOV: 21 Including 5 mailing lists that reach 100+ people
• Personal Friends: 8
• Universities .EDU: 6 From SEI to Purdue to Notre Dame
• Consultants: 14

This short survey does not consider those that have multiple registrations, really belong in some other classification. The analysis was done based on the suffix of the mailing address and my personal knowledge of the mailing address names or my personal knowledge of the individual.

The EWITA community extends worldwide, covering many different organizations concentrated in the government areas. It appears to be a excellent way of communicating to a diverse group of individuals who are interested in IT architecture.

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From the site:

The CIO Council serves as a focal point for coordinating challenges that cross agency boundaries. The CIO Council operational committees, through subcommittees and working groups, meet these challenges by producing the work products of the CIO Council, many of which can be found on this web site. The CIO Council's Year 2000 Strategic Plan lists the following six committees: Capital Planning and IT Management; Federal IT Workforce; Security, Privacy and Critical Infrastructure; Enterprise Interoperability and Emerging IT; Outreach; and Year 2000. The Year 2000 Committee has been sunsetted and a new committee, E-Gov, was formed out of the GITS (Government Information Technology Services) Board. An additional committee, the executive committee, is made up of the chairs of the operational committees and supports Council operations and the management of budget and cross-committee initiatives.

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Summary:

Good site for making contacts, site has many links to interesting areas for Architects as well as CIO’s.

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Sorry about the newsletter not being up to speed this issue, I have a couple of deadlines at work and am having to squeeze in the newsletter on Christmas Eve day.

Over the last couple of issues, I took a look at the site and the mailing list. I want to thank you for your assistance in making this a viable site. Why not invite others to grow our community by forwarding copies of the newsletter or pointing them to the site?

Do you have pointers, articles of interest to the EA community, would you like to write an article? If so, please contact me, so we can, together, further the EA Community

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Feel free to add to the response, just email me the answer, I will include it in the next newsletter and forward directly to the person posing the question.

Do you have any examples, templates, lessons learned for a Statement of Work
for Enterprise Architecture?

You might try the site at http://www.ewita.com select the tools selection and look at the "Staffing the Project" for the statement of work we used to get our EA done.

The State of Washington has some templates on my site, look at the WSDOT selections in the Tools area.

Feel free to use whatever you want/need.

You may want to request access to the State of CA / EDD/BDA for a complete version of an Architecture.

If you want to formulate your questions, I would be happy to put them in my newsletter and maybe you will get some good responses.