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

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!
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> 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.
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> I would like to suggest we re-start our Interest Group, although in a
> slightly different form -- as a Community Group (CG).
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> My logic is:
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> A) despite good effort, we struggled somewhat since the beginning to find
> a truly useful role;
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> B) our originally chartered tasks were somewhat subsumed by the WG;
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> 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;
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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/
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> 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.
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> I look forward to hearing reactions and ideas.
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> Best regards -- Ann
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> Ann Bassetti
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