to recycle old and inactive CG (Community I/O) or to propose new one (Collaborative Economy)?

Hello,

I would like to ask for advice on what online venue I should use for a
very particular collaboration.

Long time ago I created Community I/O Community Group
https://www.w3.org/community/community-io

After some attempts to collaborate, it became inactive for long time. I
also realize now that I set context way to broad and not related to any
already established concept.

Lately a lot of very relevant work happens around topic of
*Collaborative Economy*. Also W3C Social Activity (WG & IG) launched and
superseded Federated Social Web CG. It also references Social Business
Community Group, which closed last year.
https://www.w3.org/community/socbizcg

I cc Harry since he gave talk during OuiShare Labs Camp 2014 in Paris,
and could see growing interest among people working with Collaborative
(Sharing) Economy online platforms, to build them in more interoperable
way. Video from "Decentralized Tools and Networks for Communities" panel
https://youtu.be/3vubqzjL3fs "

Since than, many new open source project emerged working in field of
Collaborative Economy and I would like to offer a venue to various
people who work on them to give more focus to make them gradually more
interoperable.

I consider proposing Collaborative Economy Community Group, following
naming used on social media. (for example on twitter
https://twitter.com/hashtag/CollaborativeEconomy) and using #collecon
IRC channel and collecon-public@w3.org mailing list.

We would focus there on closely following work in Social WG&IG,
Credentials CG and Schema.org CG (where schema.org imported Good
Relations vocabulary). Also having more freedom to work together with
Social IG on more specific use cases which receive push back in Social
WG, for example:
*
https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/Social_API/User_stories#Offering_asparagus
*
https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/Social_API/User_stories#Demanding_help_with_the_harvest
*
https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/Social_API/User_stories#Reshare_friend.27s_ridesharing_demand

Initially I plan to invite people developing those open source platforms
* https://github.com/sharetribe/sharetribe
** old article by on of co-founders
http://www.shareable.net/blog/an-api-for-sharing
* https://github.com/Hylozoic/hylo-node
* https://github.com/trustroots/trustroots/
* https://github.com/inventaire/inventaire
** lead developer moderated mentioned panel discussion with Harry
* https://github.com/openfoodfoundation/openfoodnetwork
** they already work together with someone implementing LDP
* https://github.com/foodcoops/foodsoft
* https://github.com/producerun/producerun
* https://github.com/heaven7/wsl
* https://github.com/raph-ael/yunity
* etc.

Few other developers expressed interest to collaborate via
* https://github.com/ouisharelabs/food-dashboard/issues/1

And use cases like 'Offering asparagus' and 'Demanding help with the
harvest' will come crucial in this context.

I see couple of options

1. Starting fresh Collaborative Economy CG and closing Community I/O CG
2. Recycling Community I/O and renaming it, plus setting more clear
context (if possibl)
3. Working outside of W3C and coordinating with Social IG

I believe some other possibilities exist and I would very much
appreciate your advice :)

Thank you!

Received on Thursday, 20 August 2015 12:07:58 UTC