Re: Getting organized

I guess it would be good to join ORE + OWLED, but I also think the Summer
of Logic / Olympics would be the perfect location next year. So unless
there are some strong arguments against that, I would go ahead with Vienna
next year.
On Aug 28, 2013 10:10 AM, "Bijan Parsia" <bijan.parsia@manchester.ac.uk>
wrote:

> I think ultimately they should come together. At the very least we should
> be sharing organisation. I think there's some advantage to maintaining some
> flexibility. Eg. Having ORE coloed with the summer of logic with the other
> competitions makes sense whereas its not obvious we can fit owled in. Also,
> it seemed like good outreach at DL. We may want to have a rotating
> schedule. Eg every other year with owled.
>
> Actually I'm not sure what's happening with the next owled...
>
> Just kicking around some ideas.
>
> On Aug 28, 2013, at 10:03, "Ian Horrocks" <ian.horrocks@cs.ox.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>
> > Wouldn't it make sense to try to integrate OWLED and ORE? The interests
> and target audience are quite close. Putting them together would make a
> really great workshop and would lighten the overall load for both
> organisers and attendees.
> >
> > Ian
> >
> >
> > On 28 Aug 2013, at 08:55, Samantha Bail <bails@cs.man.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
> >>
> >
> >
>
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