Re: Third sector services extension?

yup.  I've got a slack group also but it's been poorly supported for a
while...  (i've been busy...)

Send me an invite ;)

I've cc'd my other relevant emails.

Cheers,

Tim.H.

On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 at 18:22 Jen Williams <jen@networkedplanet.com> wrote:

> Hi Tim
> Happy to set up a skype at some point in the near future. Enthusiastic
> people always welcome! For now would you like to join our Slack team?
> http://nfpschema.slack.com
>
> We're at the very early stages and it would be great to have you on board
> :-)
>
> On 24 August 2016 at 09:18, Timothy Holborn <timothy.holborn@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jen,
>>
>> very interested in the field also. I'm based in Australia, which often
>> leads timezone difficulties with W3C activities; however, i have a few
>> ideas around the development of a new CG and would be v.interested in
>> chatting about it.
>>
>> Timothy Holborn
>> http://twitter.com/webcivics
>> skype: sailing_digital
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 at 18:14 Jen Williams <jen@networkedplanet.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> There's not a connection with Open 311 (currently!), but it's great to
>>> hear about these other efforts to address similar or overlapping issues (
>>> http://lists.open311.org/groups/discuss/messages/topic/5YKT3xGqXs6J3nItzYLnzZ)
>>> so that we can attempt to avoid reinventing the wheel and put energies
>>> where they are best used.
>>>
>>> I will do further research and agree that a W3C community group would be
>>> the best way to coordinate efforts, if others here believe it to be
>>> worthwhile of deeper discussion (currently we've just started a Slack
>>> team). The next IRL meeting about the NFP taxonomy we are planning will be
>>> at ODCamp UK (November, Cardiff) should anyone like to come and chat in
>>> person about it all, where we hope to have disseminate the other efforts
>>> out there and come up with an Almightly Plan Of Action ;-)
>>>
>>> Really appreciate everyone's input, thanks!
>>>
>>> Jen
>>>
>>> On 23 August 2016 at 17:38, Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 22 August 2016 at 13:24, Jen Williams <jen@networkedplanet.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > Hi schema.org community,
>>>> >
>>>> > Recently at Barcamp Nonprofits (http://barcampnonprofits.com/) we
>>>> had a
>>>> > session on making services discoverable, which had grown out of
>>>> previous
>>>> > discussions from the unconference scene in the UK (Open Data Camp and
>>>> VCSS
>>>> > Camp). Obviously schema.org came up as part of that discussion.
>>>> >
>>>> > What we'd like to know is whether anyone is spearheading the creation
>>>> of a
>>>> > schema.org extension for describing the services provided by third
>>>> > (voluntary) sector organisations. If no one is, what's the best way
>>>> to get
>>>> > one started?
>>>> >
>>>> > It sounds like this might overlap with some of the work done by the
>>>> Open
>>>> > Referral project over in the US (the Open Eligibility project
>>>> certainly is a
>>>> > great taxonomy to use as a starting point) and our first step of
>>>> course is
>>>> > to make sure that work isn't being duplicated while at the same time
>>>> > providing terms and descriptions for NFP services that go beyond the
>>>> human
>>>> > services focused on in the Open Referral project (e.g. environmental
>>>> and so
>>>> > on).
>>>> >
>>>> > Can anyone give more info on whether this has been or is being looked
>>>> into
>>>> > by schema.org? If so, what's the history and progress? We'd like to
>>>> lend our
>>>> > time and support to extending schema.org coverage of the voluntary
>>>> sector.
>>>>
>>>> Sounds like everyone's said almost everything I could think to say on
>>>> this :) Seems like a great topic for deeper attention. It might be the
>>>> right sized topic for a W3C community group....
>>>>
>>>> One thought - is there any connection with Open 311?
>>>> https://www.mysociety.org/2013/01/17/open311-explained/
>>>> http://www.open311.org/2015/06/highlights-from-the-open311-ecosystem/
>>>> etc?
>>>>
>>>> Dan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> > Many thanks,
>>>> >
>>>> > Jen
>>>> >
>>>> > --
>>>> >
>>>> > Jen Williams
>>>> >
>>>> > Networked Planet Ltd
>>>> > http://www.networkedplanet.com
>>>> > http://www.twitter.com/nwplanet
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>> *Jen Williams*
>>> *Networked Planet Ltd*
>>> http://www.networkedplanet.com
>>> http://www.twitter.com/nwplanet
>>>
>>
>
>
> --
>
>
> *Jen Williams*
> *Networked Planet Ltd*
> http://www.networkedplanet.com
> http://www.twitter.com/nwplanet
>