First Bio2RDF meeting, next steps

Dear Bio2RDF'ers,

  Last week we held our first virtual
meeting<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-1ytBhdkViCVJLfx42jaJNu0W4XVxiQqpOy-5rKT5fo/edit?hl=en_US>
towards
re-invigorating the Bio2RDF project with a significantly larger and vested
community<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XjTpUvwvBZaEJ_0zQOctj1bjx9YaSavOdPDd7oXaXD4/edit?hl=en_US>.
>From discussions, we plan to establish 3 focus groups
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s1TagsANHRnutnJ-9EsDxkG6HqFt4jfXi7SYpHlswys/edit?hl=en_US>around
:

A. policy (information, governance, sustainability, outreach)
B. technical (architecture, infrastructure and RDFization)
C. social (user experience and social networking)

The next step then is for groups to:
1. identify and certify discussion leads (responsibilities: set meeting
times and agenda, facilitate and encourage discussion among members, draft
reports)
2. identify additional people to recruit from the wider community that would
provide additional expertise (interested, but didn't attend the first? sign
up now !)
3. extend and prioritize discussion items (what exactly will this group
focus its efforts on in the short and long term)
4. identify and assign bite-sized tasks (so we can get things done one step
at a time :)
5. collate results and present to the wider community

I suggest that groups self-organize a first meeting in the next two weeks to
deal with items 1-4, and either meet again or use the Google documents to
collaboratively report findings.

Finally, I'd like for us to hold another meeting with times that are much
more accommodating for Europe + North America ;)  Please fill the doodle
poll (http://www.doodle.com/fsuz6mgs5cztf2e2)

As always, feel free to contact me if you have any questions, and please
sign up to the Bio2RDF mailing
list<https://groups.google.com/group/bio2rdf/>for all future
discussions.

Cheers!

m.


-- 
Michel Dumontier
Associate Professor of Bioinformatics
Carleton University
http://dumontierlab.com