Re: Community outreach

David,

Since you've been interacting with this person, you should invite them  
to the new RDFa users' mailing list:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdfa/

Of course, any member of the task force, myself included, is happy to  
provide private help, too, but since we're trying to build the  
community, public discussion would be ideal!

And I *really* like Shane's proposed title "RDFa - or How I Learned to  
Stop Worrying and Love the Semantic Web". It is actually a very  
accurate description of how many new RDFa users feel, in my experience.

-Ben

On Mar 16, 2008, at 6:39 AM, David Peterson wrote:

>
> Hello RDFa'ers,
>
> I came across this post [1] in response to a comment [2] I left one  
> of their blogs. They were thinking of using microformats as their  
> metadata language, but after the Yahoo announcement and my comment  
> they are seriously looking into RDFa. Mostly so that Yahoo  
> SearchMonkey and other next-gen search engines will pick it up.
>
> Would anyone here like to contact them and give them a hand? It  
> sounds like it would be a very widely-used vocab and would help set  
> the stage for others looking to RDFa. It would make a great case  
> study for the RDFa wiki as well. "How I (easily) migrated from  
> microformats to RDFa to partake in the Data Web". Don't know about  
> the title ;)
>
> The great thing with the post is that they see the advantages of  
> RDFa, they just need a few pointers I think.
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
> BoaB interactive
> http://boab.info
> [blog] http://www.sitepoint.com/articlelist/497
>
> [1] Yahoo!, Bibleref, and RDFa
> http://www.openbible.info/blog/2008/03/yahoo-bibleref-and-rdfa/
>
> [2] http://sim.plified.com/2008/02/21/yahoo-meta-data-search-and-bibleref/
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