Meeting on Thursday, June 26, 2008

Hi, SVG Fans!

Jeff Schiller and I would like to welcome you to the SVG Interest Group. 
  Thank you very much for signing up for our little experiment in 
community building.  None of us quite know which directions the SVG IG 
will turn, but we have some pretty clear ideas on how to get started.

We'd like to have a teleconference on Thursday, June 26, from 11:00 to 
12:00 AM US East Coast time.  Given that we are spread out across the 
globe, it's always a challenge to find a suitable time that works for 
everyone, but this is a pretty good compromise, I hope.  We can plan a 
new time once we get into the swing of things.

This teleconference (or "telcon") will be to plan our first steps, and 
to introduce ourselves and explain what our particular interests are. 
If everyone could write a brief note to the list, that would be a great 
start.

For those who don't know me, I'm Doug Schepers.  My IRC nick is shepazu. 
  I've been an avid member of the SVG community since 2000, and for 
years I built SVG Webapps as a contractor (and just for fun).  My 
company, Vectoreal, joined W3C as an affiliate member a few years ago to 
help move the SVG spec in the directions we thought it needed to go.  As 
of a year ago, I was hired by W3C directly to serve as the Team Contact 
for the SVG, CDF, and WebApps Working Groups.  I am particularly 
interested in making SVG a "smart" graphics format, with extensible 
semantics and rich interactivity... I also like making it fun and pretty.

I have always felt that W3C needed a better way to engage the community, 
and to find out where the designers and authors and users wanted the 
technology to move, not just leaving it in the hands of the browser 
vendors.  This Interest Group is our attempt to do just that.

Again the telcon will be held Thursday the 26th, from 11:00 to 12:00 AM 
EST (check the wiki for your local time).  The phone bridge number is 
+1.617.761.6200, conference 78444 ("SVGIG").  We will be meeting 
concurrently in a chat room, on channel #svgig (irc://irc.w3.org, port 
6665); if you need help with IRC, just let me know.

You can always find updated telcon information here:
   http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/IG/wiki/Main_Page#Communication

Best Regards-
-Doug Schepers
W3C Team Contact, WebApps, SVG, and CDF

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