Re: Introduction

Hi Robin,

Great to have you as a member! Re: chairs, I was going to issue a call to nominate chairs once the group had more members, but it seems a member had nominated four chairs already (including myself). I've now made it so that I'm the only chair for the time being.

Cheers,

James

On 2013-03-18, at 10:19 AM, Robin Berjon wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> my name is Robin Berjon and I work for W3C (not here in an official capacity though). I have a longish background in open standards and open source.
> 
> I also have a long standing interest in the better application of the web to government, not just technically but also in terms of methods, for instance applying the way open standards groups work to the creation of law and policy (which imho is a more readily translatable model than proposals to apply open source or wikipedia approaches — even though they are quite close).
> 
> I'm primarily interested in two things in following this group:
> 
> • Lurking, staying on top of what's going on, and peeping up once in a while if I believe I can help.
> 
> • Identifying (directly, or, you know, by having someone shove it in my face) gaps in Web technology that could be addressed in order to better support open gov stuff. Primarily, I'm interested in stuff I could help address as part of my day job, which is to work on the HTML specification.
> 
> PS: Someone made me chair of this group, I'm not sure why. I mean I'm honoured and all, but I don't think I have the bandwidth for it :)
> 
> -- 
> Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon
> 

Received on Monday, 18 March 2013 14:32:38 UTC