Re: Getting organized

Hello from me as well!

I'd be happy with the OWLED steering committee chairing the group if, as
you said, there's at least one person who's taking on a leading role in the
community group.

Just a quick addition regarding things we might be discussing in the group,
we (that is, the OWL reasoner evaluation workshop organisers) are
considering using this group to steer future ORE and ongoing OWL reasoner
benchmarking efforts, as it seems of interest to the whole comunity.

By the way, there is also an IRC channel #owled on the W3 servers (more
info on the community group page) where I'm at least auto-signing in at the
moment, so please come and say hi /be silent together!

That just on a side note, let's sort the chairing question first.

Cheers!

Samantha
University of Manchester
On Aug 28, 2013 7:58 AM, "Bijan Parsia" <bijan.parsia@manchester.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Hi ho,
>
> It's been over a year and the group is currently moribund, but there's
> lots of need for it.
>
> So I suggest we start getting organised. (I'm hoping to have a fair bit of
> time this year to devote to getting this thing active as I'm on sabbatical,
> yay!)
>
> First, thought is that we prune the chairs a bit. I'd be happy if we
> restricted the chairs to the OWLED steering committee assuming that at
> least one person in that group is willing to take an "active" role in
> nurturing the group for the next year.
>
> If the steering committee members have other commitments, then I hereby
> volunteer to be a chair (or the sole chair if no one else is currently
> interested). If that's the path, then we should revisit chairship each
> year, probably around OWLED time, but with virtual participation.
>
> The main formal power of a chair is to approve (or not approve) reports.
> The main goal for this first year is to get activity going and help develop
> structures to make it sustainable.
>
> Thoughts? Comments? Counters?
>
> In order to make activity the default, if I get no response by Sept 10th,
> I'll seize control of the group :)
>
> Cheers,
> Bijan.
>
>