News and teleconferences

Dear All,

Some news about the effective beginning of the Mobile Web for social 
Development IG, and its first teleconference.

I've been busy these days on finalizing the executive summary of the 
Workshop on the role of mobile technologies in fostering social 
development ([1]) we held in Sao Paulo june 2-3. I will send a draft 
version by the end of the week.

Concerning the teleconference schedule, the group is supposed to meet 
twice a month (see the charter at [2]) for one hour. I propose we start 
on these basis and aim at meeting the first and third week of the month 
(the first week of the month being the week having the 1st of the month 
in it and not the first full week in the considered month).
So i propose we start in july, the week of 6/30 -> 7/4
I prepared a questionnaire to find the most appropriate time that would 
fit all. So, please if you are members of the group fill [3] at your 
earliest convenience and before June 27 EOD (Note that time are 
expressed in UTC e.g. 4 hours ahead of US east coast, and 2 hours before 
Europe french time).

I remind people that official members of the group who can participate 
in the teleconferences are those listed at [4].
This group is open to public, and anybody interested to become an 
official member is welcome, but you have to commit to be an effective 
participant. See the procedure at [5].

During teleconferences we will use some of the W3C tools including our 
teleconference bridge which has a presence in US east-coast, UK, and 
France, and an irc channel to exchange information like URI or to take 
minutes. I will send info about those later.

I believe that future teleconferences will have a dedicated topic of 
discussion. For me, this is surely the most effective way to concentrate 
energy, and to have interesting and lively discussions during the 
teleconferences. However, the first few instances are going to be more 
general to define in details the roadmap on the group: what we plan to 
do during the lifetime of the group (12 months), what are the exact 
goals, ... For that reason, we would surely focus first on the 
development of a "vision" document which would describe our goals in the 
first 12 months, but also on longer term what we plan to achieve. I 
believe we all have slightly different expectations and views, and some 
of you may even wonder what we would do. So the first few 
teleconferences should clarify these points.
We can also start the discussion on the mailing-list.
I will send later this week my own view, but if anybody interested to 
start first, don't be shy !

Best,
Stephane

[1] http://www.w3.org/2008/02/MS4D_WS/
[2] http://www.w3.org/2007/12/MW4D/charter1.1.html
[3] http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/42462/telconf08/
[4] http://www.w3.org/2000/09/dbwg/details?group=42462&public=1
[5] http://www.w3.org/2008/MW4D/participation.html
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Received on Monday, 16 June 2008 07:51:41 UTC