Re: DWBP is a W3C Recommendation

Hi all,

I'm so happy and proud to see the results of our work. It was great to be
part of this team!

I remember our first Friday meetings when, most of the times, I was  just
listening because I was still learning how to participate on a W3C working
group. After a while, I started to become "less shy" and at the end I was
really feeling part of the team. And this is a great feeling! Being able to
contribute with something that can help organizations all around the world
it is really priceless. Now, I have to confess that I am addicted to this
and I'd like to contribute with other working groups as well.

Thank you all for our meetings and discussions! I learned so much with
them.  A special thanks to Annette, Antoine, Eric Stephan, Laufer, Makx and
Phil.

Thanks to all W3C team for the support! A special thanks to Phil for all
your help and patience! He had the challenge to deal with some people like
me (without W3C working group experience) :)  Also a big thank you to our
chairs! You were really amazing bringing the consensus at difficult moments
and helping us to organize our ideas!

Thank you so much to Carol and Newton! It was great working with you two!
We learned a lot together and I hope that we have other opportunities to
repeat this successful partnership!

I really like the idea of proposing a Community Group. I think that we can
go further on some ongoing discussions, but we can also identify new
challenges about Data on the Web. Let's continue the data on the Web
Revolution [1]!

cheers,
Berna

[1] https://www.w3.org/blog/2017/01/dwbp/

2017-01-31 10:18 GMT-03:00 Phil Archer <phila@w3.org>:

> Take a bow ladies and gentlemen...
>
> https://www.w3.org/TR/dwbp/
>
> The formal announcement has been sent to the members and the home page
> will be updated later in the day to point to the Rec (it'll be top news
> item - you might want to take a screenshot). I have also written a blog
> post at https://www.w3.org/blog/2017/01/dwbp/.
>
> Please look out for tweets, make a noise, shout, promote etc.
>
> There have been times along this path when WG members have expressed their
> thanks to each other and sadness that the work is now done. I've not been
> ready to join in with that until now, i.e. now that both of the
> vocabularies are stable and the BP doc is published as a Recommendation.
>
> I am deeply grateful to the members of this WG. As I tried to say in
> Zagreb - your expertise and hard work makes each other look good and makes
> me look good. I know that those of us present were delighted to see so many
> references to the work while we were in Amsterdam recently. That's a sign
> that others have been and are watching, and that the work is useful. The
> quotes from Terence Eden and Jeremy Tandy included in the blog post are
> genuine and unprompted.
>
> It is the way of these things that it is the editors whose names are most
> frequently mentioned. That is right. The work that Antoine, Riccardo, Eric,
> Bernadette, Carol and Newton have done puts the rest of us in the shade.
> But we all know that it has been a group effort and the editors' hands have
> been guided by many voices.
>
> My own role is only possible with everyone else's effort which is why I am
> so humbled. If you'll allow me, there are three people I must thank by
> name: Hadley, Dee and Yaso. Their guidance and organisation has been
> essential to the group's success.
>
> What's Next?
> ============
>
> In terms of this WG, that's it. The group will be formally closed in the
> coming days, the mailing list made inactive (the archive persists) and the
> wiki frozen. If you want to make any edits to the wiki, do it now.
>
> As you know, I'm hoping to start a new WG on the topic of vocabularies,
> notably DCAT, coming out of the Amsterdam workshop. I'm supposed to have
> written the report by now - I'm working on it. I hope many of you will want
> to be in that WG.
>
> For DWBP, some have suggested that there's more to follow up on. I agree.
> The vehicle we have for that is the Community Group system so if you'd like
> to propose one, please do. See https://www.w3.org/community/ That would
> have its own (new) mailing list. I'm finding out whether such a group can
> still manage the Github repo or whether that too will be frozen.
>
> Again, a sincere and deeply felt thank you. It has been a privilege.
>
> Signing off from DWBP
>
> Phil
>
> --
>
>
> Phil Archer
> Data Strategist, W3C
> http://www.w3.org/
>
> http://philarcher.org
> +44 (0)7887 767755
> @philarcher1
>
>


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Bernadette Farias Lóscio
Centro de Informática
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE, Brazil
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