Re: Action List: contact web developers

Leo Sauermann wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> sorry I could not make it to telco now.
> 
> I see that business is covered with many action items already, so I
> found that I may help on the developer bits.
> 
> I could help address this action item on web developers:
> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/sweo/group/wiki/ActionList
>> Susie to contact people to help identify the influential Web
> devlopers, e.g. Danny Ayers, Timo Hannay, Brian Suda, Ian Davis,
> Amsterdam UVA, by Dec. 15
> 
> I would add these bits:
> * identify strategic conferences for outreach: XTECH @ Amsterdam, web
> 2.0 summit, etc

As a *short term* goal, we want to have the names of people to contact
in the coming months. Please, add anybody you think is important to be
contacted. The goal here is to send out questionnaries to these people
really soon.

On *long term* I would add the list/references to conferences as a goal
to what I called 'info gathering':

http://esw.w3.org/topic/SweoIG/TaskForces/InfoGathering


> * identify some evangelistic people that could speak to developers there
> / give talks
> * gather course material / introductionary material for semweb developer
> evangelists
> and I would invest time into it.
> 

Again, that is and should be a topic in

http://esw.w3.org/topic/SweoIG/TaskForces/InfoGathering

Any help, update, addition on that is very welcome, don't be shy!:-)


I.

> For the last point, I could contact the Semantic Web School (Austria,
> semantic-web.at)
> and ask if they could help, we could also cooperate with the open
> university
> (John Domingue, Tom Heath) and ask them for public material.
> 
> Identifying evangelistic semweb people is pretty easy over planetrdf.com,
> many people read it. Henry Story is such a person, see here:
> http://novaspivack.typepad.com/nova_spivacks_weblog/2006/11/danny_and_henry.html
> 
> 
> I met all of them, Henry, John, Tom, etc on various occasions and could
> ask them how to go on with this,
> but I would rather like to be in the "correct SWEO process",
> so what do you think?
> 
> best
> Leo
> 
> 

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