Re: Meeting on Thursday, June 26, 2008

I've been active with the Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences  
Interest Group (HCLSIG) for over two years. It happens that our HCLSIG  
teleconference is every other Thursday from 11:00-noon and our last  
one was June 26.

At Brainstage we have a life sciences application with a 100% SVG Web  
front end and a back end that utilizes Semantic Web technologies. I'm  
looking forward to working with the SVG interest group and hope I can  
work out scheduling conflicts!

Don

P.S. Sorry for my tardy response but I'm often behind in my email.

Donald Doherty, Ph.D.
Founder and Chief Science Officer
Brainstage, Inc.
www.brainstage.com
donald.doherty@brainstage.com
412-683-1410


On Jun 22, 2008, at 12:00 AM, Doug Schepers wrote:

>
> Hi, SVG Fans!
>
> Jeff Schiller and I would like to welcome you to the SVG Interest  
> Group.  Thank you very much for signing up for our little experiment  
> in community building.  None of us quite know which directions the  
> SVG IG will turn, but we have some pretty clear ideas on how to get  
> started.
>
> We'd like to have a teleconference on Thursday, June 26, from 11:00  
> to 12:00 AM US East Coast time.  Given that we are spread out across  
> the globe, it's always a challenge to find a suitable time that  
> works for everyone, but this is a pretty good compromise, I hope.   
> We can plan a new time once we get into the swing of things.
>
> This teleconference (or "telcon") will be to plan our first steps,  
> and to introduce ourselves and explain what our particular interests  
> are. If everyone could write a brief note to the list, that would be  
> a great start.
>
> For those who don't know me, I'm Doug Schepers.  My IRC nick is  
> shepazu.  I've been an avid member of the SVG community since 2000,  
> and for years I built SVG Webapps as a contractor (and just for  
> fun).  My company, Vectoreal, joined W3C as an affiliate member a  
> few years ago to help move the SVG spec in the directions we thought  
> it needed to go.  As of a year ago, I was hired by W3C directly to  
> serve as the Team Contact for the SVG, CDF, and WebApps Working  
> Groups.  I am particularly interested in making SVG a "smart"  
> graphics format, with extensible semantics and rich interactivity...  
> I also like making it fun and pretty.
>
> I have always felt that W3C needed a better way to engage the  
> community, and to find out where the designers and authors and users  
> wanted the technology to move, not just leaving it in the hands of  
> the browser vendors.  This Interest Group is our attempt to do just  
> that.
>
> Again the telcon will be held Thursday the 26th, from 11:00 to 12:00  
> AM EST (check the wiki for your local time).  The phone bridge  
> number is +1.617.761.6200, conference 78444 ("SVGIG").  We will be  
> meeting concurrently in a chat room, on channel #svgig (irc://irc.w3.org 
> , port 6665); if you need help with IRC, just let me know.
>
> You can always find updated telcon information here:
>  http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/IG/wiki/Main_Page#Communication
>
> Best Regards-
> -Doug Schepers
> W3C Team Contact, WebApps, SVG, and CDF
>