How can our community collaborate better within and outside itself?

Participants: TBD

Guiding Questions

Here are some questions to get you started, but feel free to define your own.

What are the pre-requisites for successful collaborations?
At what level and scale can collaborations be carried forward
- Benchmarks, applications, systems?
How can joint, collaborative research efforts be boot-strapped and lead?
What sources of joint funding exist?
How can we expand the community to include researchers from related fields?
- How do we relate to efforts in
  - Databases, streams and continuous query processing
  - Event processing & complex event processing
  - ECA rules and active databases
- How do we want to position ourselves as a community?

Please summarize the points from the break out sessions here.