Re: Planning to close Philosophy of the Web Community Group due to inactivity unless we hear from you

> On 6. Mar 2023, at 19:35, Alexandre Monnin <aamonnz@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> It has been inactive indeed so I won't oppose its closure unless someone comes forward.


The idea of a philosophy of the web group remains a very good idea.
The problem is that philosophy done well takes a huge amount of time,
requiring professional assistance. Someone needs to help people who want
to learn and who want to do the work. But philosophy also always seems to
anyone untrained to be something obvious and easy, and the
risk is that one ends up having conversations about basics using up
huge amount of time.

It is said that at the entrance of Plato’s academy was written
"Let no one ignorant of geometry enter”

Geometry provides the type of discipline that one really needs to discuss
these topics. So I have started a group called Web Cats that looks at
how Category Theory can be applied to the web.

  https://web-cats.gitlab.io/


Hopefully, as a theory of the web using the unifying mathematical language of
category theory is developed, it will be easier to ask philosophical questions
about the web for which mathematical proofs can be provided as much as possible.

Of course, philosophy does not reduce to mathematics. I have one short proposal
that enters geopolitics and security called the Web of Nations that I put
forward here:

https://co-operating.systems/2020/06/01/WoN.pdf

It builds on my second-year report for a PhD thesis
I started a few years ago, but for which I ran out of money

https://co-operating.systems/2019/04/01/

In the meantime, I have been building a Solid server and access control libraries
for it.

My aim is now to write the thesis out in smaller pieces as
articles, as it is easier to produce those and find the right
reviewers for them.

In any case, I have not seen anyone really step up here to guide the group.
That would require a paid role, I think.


Henry Story


> 
> All the best,
> A.M.
> 
> On Mon, Mar 6, 2023 at 7:29 PM Team Community Process <team-community-process@w3.org> wrote:
> Dear participants in the
> 
>   Philosophy of the Web Community Group
>   https://www.w3.org/community/philoweb/
> 
> Your Community Group appears to have become inactive (per [1]). W3C plans to close this group in 10 days unless we hear compelling reasons from you to keep it open.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> CG/BG System
> 
> [1] https://www.w3.org/community/about/faq/#close-inactive
> 
> 
> 

Henry Story

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