- From: Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:54:39 +0100
- To: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Cc: public-svg-ig@w3.org
- Message-Id: <01AA7291-F8B8-4B3A-95B4-3124BBCBC134@btinternet.com>
Doug, please could you update the SVGIG members list as requested on the wiki. alternatively rather than bcc members, at least at this stage copy members in. I have no idea of any members beyond 3. it would be helpful to know who the audience is.... brief introductory note to follow... regards ~:" Jonathan Chetwynd j.chetwynd@btinternet.com http://www.openicon.org/ +44 (0) 20 7978 1764 On 22 Jun 2008, at 05:00, Doug Schepers wrote: > > 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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