Re: eGov meeting at W3C TPAC (November 1-2, Lyons)

Cannot attend in person, but would love to hear how things turn out.

K Goodier

On Oct 13, 2010, at 12:04 PM, Sharron Rush <srush@knowbility.org> wrote:

> Sandro,
>
> I will be attending as a member of the WAI - EOWG which is meeting  
> on Monday and Tuesday as well.  I will stop by the eGov meeting to  
> meet you and whomever is in attendance.  It would be great to meet  
> in person.
>
> Best,
> Sharron
>
>
> At 10:50 AM 10/13/2010, Sandro Hawke wrote:
>> We have reserved a room as part of the W3C TPAC [1] event in Lyons,
>> France, in about three weeks.   None of the Interest Group chairs  
>> expect
>> to be there, but I will be.   My plan is to have two days of  
>> discussion,
>> mostly about the future of eGov @ W3C.    In particular, I'm thinking
>> day 1 (Monday) will be about eGov in general, and day 2 (Tuesday)  
>> will
>> be specifically about Government Linked Data (GLD).
>>
>> My expectation at this point is that the eGov activity will be
>> rechartered, with the IG running as a seminar series (as we did in  
>> the
>> spring), with task forces (when/if there is sufficient interest), and
>> with a GLD Working Group developing vocabularies, standardizing
>> definitions to assist in procurement, and doing some community  
>> building.
>> I'm thinking we can spend a day digging into each of those in some
>> depth, sketching out plans in more detail.
>>
>> If you're interested, please register:
>>   http://www.w3.org/2010/11/TPAC/#Registration
>>
>> I strongly recommend attending the plenary day (Wednesday), if you
>> can.
>>
>> If you'll be there and have ideas for agenda items, or ways you'd  
>> like
>> to see the event structured, please let me know as soon as possible.
>> We have about a dozen people currently register, so it may be mostly
>> discussion format, but if you have interesting material to present,
>> please let me know.
>>
>>     -- Sandro
>>
>> [1] http://www.w3.org/2010/11/TPAC/
>
>

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