Hello AC Reps and W3C Offices –

The Social Web Working Group needs your help!  Especially from those of you who are familiar with social tools beyond the common ones in USA and Europe.  For instance, if you use social tools in China, Japan, Korea, Eastern Europe, Russia, India, Middle East, African countries, Antarctica ;-)  ...   please help us.

The goal of the Social Web WG, per the charter, is "... to define the technical protocols, vocabularies, and APIs to facilitate access to social functionality as part of the Open Web Platform. These technologies should allow communication between independent systems, federation ... being part of the design."

We have documented API patterns of many of the prominent social network tools used in the USA and Europe (e.g., Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, Flickr, ...):  https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/Social_API_patterns

But what about other prominent social networking systems (e.g., Yandex, VKontakte, Sina Weibo, Tencent QQ, WeChat,  Renren, Cyworld, and any others you know about)?  Are there API patterns we have missed?  We cannot read those languages, and do not have anyone on our team that can.  We NEED your help!  Or from someone you might designate.

Please feel free to forward this request to anyone you think might be qualified and interested to help. One can respond to the Working Group (public-socialweb@w3.org ), to the chairs of the WG (Tantek Çelik, Evan Prodromou, Arnaud Le Hors), or to me.

Thank you – Ann (and Working Group)

Ann Bassetti

Associate Technical Fellow

Boeing, IT Infrastructure

IT Technology & Quality Integration

mobile:  +1.206.218.8039

email:  ann.bassetti@boeing.com