Introduction

Hi all,

my name is Robin Berjon and I work for W3C (not here in an official 
capacity though). I have a longish background in open standards and open 
source.

I also have a long standing interest in the better application of the 
web to government, not just technically but also in terms of methods, 
for instance applying the way open standards groups work to the creation 
of law and policy (which imho is a more readily translatable model than 
proposals to apply open source or wikipedia approaches — even though 
they are quite close).

I'm primarily interested in two things in following this group:

• Lurking, staying on top of what's going on, and peeping up once in a 
while if I believe I can help.

• Identifying (directly, or, you know, by having someone shove it in my 
face) gaps in Web technology that could be addressed in order to better 
support open gov stuff. Primarily, I'm interested in stuff I could help 
address as part of my day job, which is to work on the HTML specification.

PS: Someone made me chair of this group, I'm not sure why. I mean I'm 
honoured and all, but I don't think I have the bandwidth for it :)

-- 
Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon

Received on Monday, 18 March 2013 14:19:49 UTC