Hacker rally questionnaire draft

Hi all!

Let me present a draft text to attract developers to a community to get 
practical. At first, we can have the semweb community developers answer 
it, then as proposals are coming in, we may try to quantify the level 
of support each proposal has. So, something like this:

The W3C Semantic Web Education and Outreach Interest Group wishes to 
encourage developers to come together a few practical projects, and 
hopes to gather a community of developers to write code that solves a 
current problem. This rally seeks real running code, not vapourware, 
and it seeks to reach a wide user base. We want to encourage people to 
create something that makes a real difference to people now, and 
through that, promote the Semantic Web.

So, if you were to decide the project that you think would promote the 
Semantic Web the most by getting it into people's lives, what would it 
be?

Please provide a short description and rationale and answer these 
questions:

1. Description:


2. Rationale:


3. How do you see this project becoming widespread? 


4. Can your project be easily integrated with other wide-spread systems? 
If so, which and how?


5. Why is it that this project should be done right now, i.e. why should 
people prioritise this ahead of other projects?


6. What can you do yourself on this project?


7. What contributions do you need from others?


8. How does your project encourage others not involved with Semantic Web 
technologies to get involved (by providing data or make a coding 
commitment)?



9. What other technologies could be used to achieve most of the goals of 
the project, and why are Semantic Web technologies better suited?



-- 
Kjetil Kjernsmo
Semantic Web Specialist
Opera Software ASA

Received on Thursday, 21 December 2006 12:29:33 UTC