Re: New Chairs, New Year, Real progress

Congrats!
On Dec 6, 2012 6:10 PM, "Phil Archer" <phila@w3.org> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I am very aware that it is many months since the Locations and Addressed
> Community group was formed, since when the amount of activity here has been
> close to zero. That's because we've been working to get the right chairs in
> place.
>
> I am delighted to say that this has now happened and that we're ready to
> go.
>
> The CG will be co-chaired by Michael Lutz and Andrea Perego of the
> European Commission's Digital Earth and Reference Data Unit [1]. That's a
> mouthful but it means that Michael, Andrea and their colleagues are the
> people responsible for developing the INSPIRE Guidelines. For
> non-Europeans, that's a set of guidelines/standards for representing
> geospatial and environmental data that Member States are legally obliged to
> use.
>
> Between now and Christmas, Michael and Andrea will prepare some materials
> on the group's wiki designed to survey the current standards in use and
> attitudes towards them. That will be in important starting point for the
> group.
>
> So... thank you for you patience, expect to see this mailing list get into
> swing with a few messages in the coming weeks and a lot more in the new
> year.
>
> Phil
>
> [1] http://ies.jrc.ec.europa.eu/DE
>
>
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>
> Phil Archer
> W3C eGovernment
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> January 28 - 29 2013, Washington DC
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