The W3C Dataspaces Community Group in 2025: call to action

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*Dear Dataspace Enthusiasts,New year, time for action! We have been 
rather quiet over the past few months as we have been preparing the 
method for solving problems in this community group. Unlike other 
community groups, we have decided that in 2025 we will not organize 
calls. Instead, we want to have a clear overview of the opportunities 
and challenges that dataspaces bring, and what Web technologies we can 
bring to the table to solve them.This overview will be created through 3 
calls for contribution, where we'll ask you to discuss the problem 
you're solving on our community group's GitHub 
(https://github.com/w3c-cg/dataspaces/issues 
<https://github.com/w3c-cg/dataspaces/issues>) before submitting. If a 
problem already exists, that's great - you can link to it from your 
contributions. If it doesn't, we ask that you add it there using the 
issue template. That way, we'll be able to discuss problem statements 
and have well-thought-out solutions to those problems in contributions 
to these venues:*

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 1.

    April 24-25: The Solid Symposium in Leiden will have a dedicated
    workshop on dataspaces: call for contributions to be announced -
    https://www.sosy2025.eu/ <https://www.sosy2025.eu/>

 2.

    June 1 or 2: ESWC workshop on dataspaces (SDS). Call for papers has
    been published - https://dbis.rwth-aachen.de/SDS25/
    <https://dbis.rwth-aachen.de/SDS25/>(submission deadline: March 6th)

 3.

    Accepted papers at the ESWC dataspaces workshop can, if they wish,
    also be selected for presentation during ENDORSE 2025 in Brussels,
    October 8-9, 2025 https://op.europa.eu/en/web/endorse-2025
    <https://op.europa.eu/en/web/endorse-2025>

Save the dates, submit your challenges on GitHub, and start preparing 
your submissions! Looking forward to making an impact in 2025!Kind 
regards,Johannes Theissen-Lipp and Pieter ColpaertChairs of the W3C 
Dataspaces Community Group*