Re: re-starting, and moving to Community Group?

Hi Ann and all,

Good to hear from you!  As at least Ann knows, I'm more interested in the
Social Economy group, being focused on the next-economy piece of the
puzzle, and not even belonging to Facebook.  :)  But we in the Social
Economy CG haven't been doing anything either.

Anyhow I'd be happy to participate in a call to think about it all, if you
decide to have one. No travel for me, sorry.

Lynn

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 3:30 PM, Lloyd Fassett <lloyd@azteria.com> wrote:

> I was thinking of seeing if there's interest in extending the use cases to
> users.  The one I remember is the Farmer's Market.  In that case, is the
> person that suggested it in touch with the manager of a Farmer's Market
> that has any resources in time or money to implement the work?  Actually go
> over the use case from a non-technical point of view.
>
> It kept looking like we had businesses that were using the data internally
> by not interoperably between businesses.  Even at Boeing, the use case
> seemed to be sharing profiles between apps within the business, but not
> between external organizations and Boeing.
>
> The suggestion is really about extending the use cases to Users to
> encourage interoperability between businesses without regard for the
> technology.  It would also help technical oriented people to keep checking
> their assumptions about Use Cases and where resistance to adoption will or
> does come from.
>
> The Indie Web Camp sounds great too.  That's easier to go to since it's
> Sat / Sun. I'm jiggy with going to that event, maybe in addition to the
> Tue/Wed W3C meeting.
>
> Lloyd Fassett
> Azteria Inc.
> Bend, OR
> (541) 848-2440 (PST)
>
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Ann Bassetti <ann.bassetti@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Lloyd!
>>
>> I think your first question ("Is there a externally focused role for
>> developing an ecosystem of participating companies?") gets to the crux of
>> it ... what would we do? what do we need? anything? how to attract more
>> participation? who's ideas are we missing?
>>
>> The Social Web WG is meeting in Portland on June  7 & 8. I plan to
>> attend, but I am a member of that group.  If you or any other IG folks want
>> to meet, I love to do that!
>>
>> Also, there will be an Indie Web Camp on the preceding weekend, that is
>> open to all -- maybe that would be a good opportunity?  (I also plan to
>> attend that event.)  http://indiewebcamp.com/2016
>>
>> Thanks for the quick response!  -- Ann
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, March 29, 2016 12:11 PM, Lloyd Fassett <lloyd@azteria.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I'd be in for a conference call.  My initial thoughts are:
>>
>>
>>    - Is there a externally focused role for developing an ecosystem of
>>    participating companies?
>>    - Is the Portland, OR face-to-face still on the agenda for this
>>    summer?  Perhaps that's a good place to exchange information and focus
>>    efforts.
>>
>>
>> Lloyd
>>
>> Lloyd Fassett
>> Azteria Inc.
>> Bend, OR
>> (541) 848-2440 (PST)
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 12:03 PM, Ann Bassetti <ann.bassetti@yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Greetings Social Web Interest Group!
>>
>> After my hiatus (due to retiring from Boeing and getting my feet "on the
>> ground"), I am back. I hope you are all well and thriving, doing
>> interesting things.
>>
>> I would like to suggest we re-start our Interest Group, although in a
>> slightly different form -- as a Community Group (CG).
>>
>> My logic is:
>>
>> A) despite good effort, we struggled somewhat since the beginning to find
>> a truly useful role;
>>
>> B) our originally chartered tasks were somewhat subsumed by the WG;
>>
>> C) yet, we have quite a few great use cases documented which we should
>> not lose (and which need to be re-written with better high-level summaries;
>>
>> D) there may be use cases out there in the world we haven't thought
>> about... having a Community Group enables anyone who wants to contribute to
>> do so, without having to be a W3C member nor an Invited Expert.
>>
>> There is already a "Federated Social Web Community Group" (
>> https://www.w3.org/community/fedsocweb/) -- the precursor to the
>> creation of the WG and IG. I'm not sure if it's better to adopt that CG (if
>> Evan and Andreas want to release it!), or if it's better to start a new one.
>>
>> If we start a new CG, I need at minimum a couple other folks to start it
>> with me.  Also we need to write a brief statement about our goals and
>> intentions, and decide how often to meet, etc. Here's the description of
>> Community Groups:  https://www.w3.org/community/about/faq/
>>
>> Anyone else interested? If yes, I suggest we have a telecon to discuss
>> options and directions.  If not, no worries; we'll let it go.
>>
>> I look forward to hearing reactions and ideas.
>>
>> Best regards -- Ann
>>
>> Ann Bassetti
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>