Re: Position papers / workshop Re: FSW CG now has 100 members

On 07/01/2013 03:08 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
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> On 1 July 2013 10:36, Harry Halpin <hhalpin@w3.org 
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>     On 07/01/2013 08:51 AM, Andreas Kuckartz wrote:
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>         Harry Halpin:
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>             Just to remind people, the W3C is thinking heavily of starting
>             standardization in this general area, but we need your
>             position papers
>             ASAP:
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>             http://www.w3.org/2013/socialweb/
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>         I will not be able to travel to the US. Will it be possible to
>         participate via Internet (Open Standards preferred) ?
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>     In very exceptional circumstances this has been done (we did it
>     for Henry Story/WebID in 2011). However, we would prefer people to
>     be there and will prioritize position papers from those that can
>     attend in person. Feel free to send a Position Paper and tell us
>     you can't attend, and we'll still post it to the website and
>     encourage attendees to read it to inform the discussion.
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>     I do understand the US is far away, so the next event will
>     hopefully be Europe-based!!
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>         I noticed that the Program Committee for that workshop mostly
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>         of people who do not seem to be active in the Federated Social Web
>         community.
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>     Evan Prodromou (who helped design the Ostatus stack), Monica
>     Wilkinson (ActivityStreams), and others are on the PC - along with
>     of course, interested companies. If folks see any key areas
>     missing, just email me.
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> James Snell, Brad Fitzpatrick, David Recordon, Chris Messina, Jo 
> Smarr, Dan Brickley may be worth inviting as I think they have done 
> valid work in this space.

They have all been invited, although most of them have "moved on" away 
from federated or even social web topics in some sense - or are working 
on internal systems, not standards.

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>         Cheers,
>         Andreas
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