Rechartering the W3C I18N Activity

Dear W3C Internationalization Workshop Participants,

As already announced, the minutes and results of
the workshop are published at
http://www.w3.org/2002/02/01-i18n-workshop
http://www.w3.org/2002/02/01-i18n-workshop/minutes
http://www.w3.org/2002/02/01-i18n-workshop/consensus

The plan is to use the month of March for a concentrated effort
to collect additional material. At the end of March, we will
prepare the new charter(s) for the W3C Internationalization Activity
based on your input.

As you know we identified five work streams of
potential future work:

- Guidelines, best practices
- Distributed services (e.g. exchanging locale/collation info)
- Education & Outreach
- Localizability
- Existing work (reviews, character model, liaisons)

The workshop was a very good start for planning the new activities,
but more is needed. In particular, for each work stream,
we need to get:

- A more detailed list of work items (including priorities,
   effort needed)

- Information on business cases, use cases,... to justify
   why W3C should do this work (e.g. how would this improve the Web?)

- A list of experts and key players who didn't attend the workshop

Please don't hesitate to send your ideas to this mailing list.
It's more important now to collect material than to be perfect.
Please use prefixes (e.g. Guidelines, Distributed, Education,
Localizability, Existing) in mail subjects.

We will also send out an announcement to various mailing lists,
with the invitation to join this mailing list, and will copy you.
If you have suggestions for where else to send it, please don't
hesitate to tell me. If you know somebody who might be interested,
please forward it.


Looking forward to hearing from you soon,    Martin.


#-#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, I18N Activity Lead, World Wide Web Consortium
#-#-#  mailto:duerst@w3.org   http://www.w3.org/People/D%C3%BCrst

Received on Friday, 1 March 2002 12:05:40 UTC