The EPTS goals are to:

• To promote understanding and advancement of Event Processing technologies, and to increase awareness about event processing
• To assist and collaborate with various standards organizations making sure all standard efforts are in sync and to promote growth (EPTS will not become a standards organization)
• To provide a cooperative and inclusive environment for communication and learning
• Help establish Event Processing as an academic discipline
• To highlight best practices,

EPTS has existed as an informal group for the last two years, holding three Event Processing Symposiums to date; for details see:

• First Event Processing Symposium hosted by IBM in 2005
• Second Event Processing Symposium hosted by Oracle in 2006
• Third Event Processing Symposium hosted by Gartner in 2007

We invite participation of all vendors, individual participants (academic people, independent consultants, and employees of non-member organizations), and customers who would like to contribute to the evolution of event processing. There is no participation fee, but all members (organizational and individual members) must sign the EPTS Members Agreement.

EPTS activities will be performed through workgroups, and periodic general meetings. Examples of current workgroup tasks include glossary creation, use cases analysis, event processing meta-modeling, the study of event formats, and event processing academic education.

Benefits to members include the ability to identify new requirements or topics for discussion, lead or participate in workgroups and other community activities, being listed and potentially quoted in official announcements and press releases, and the ability to be elected to the EPTS Steering Committee,

In order to join, please take the following actions:

1. Print the EPTS Member Agreement document. It can be downloaded from the Public Articles and Files section in the Document Management menu option or by clicking here - please print it as is, without any changes
2. Sign (for individual member) or have an authorized representative of your company sign (for a company member) two hardcopies of the agreement. Keep one for your files. You will need to produce this copy if the EPTS Steering Committee ever makes a request for it at some point in the future.
3. Fax one copy to:
   Attention: Mike Kaiser
   Fax #: 1-845-489-9958
4. Courier the second hard copy signature to the following address for EPTS archival purposes:
   IBM Corporation
   Attn: Mike Kaiser (JGWA/062/M313)
   3039 Cornwallis Rd.
   Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
   Phone: 919-254-7605