RE: Community Project Results

I don't normally blog YouTube videos and I certainly never post them to a
w3c list. But since this is a small team and this is a brilliant video to
put you in a good mood... http://segala.com/blog/gates-vs-jobs-classic/

I loved the iHouse joke!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ivan Herman [mailto:ivan@w3.org]
> Sent: 26 February 2007 12:01
> To: Paul Walsh, Segala
> Cc: 'Susie Stephens'; 'W3C SWEO IG'
> Subject: Re: Community Project Results
> 
> 
> 
> Paul Walsh, Segala wrote:
> > Fantastic. Thanks to all those who voted for Search Thresher. This will
give
> > me the nudge needed to create the roadmap for monthly build updates. We
will
> > of course, include anything that can support the other projects.
> 
> Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is just the small talk, this is not what you
> promised...
> 
> >
> > Looks like I owe a few people a beer or two ;)
> >
> 
> now you are talking!!! :-)
> 
> 
> Ivan
> 
> 
> > BTW, what's ironic and seriously dumb, is that I didn't get a chance to
> > vote! How stupid is that.
> >
> > Please accept our apology and belated regrets for not making the call :(
On
> > the up side, I was talking about all this stuff to 11 seriously smart
people
> > at an Internet brainstorming session in London yesterday.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Paul
> >
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: public-sweo-ig-request@w3.org
[mailto:public-sweo-ig-request@w3.org]
> >
> > On
> >
> >>Behalf Of Susie Stephens
> >>Sent: 21 February 2007 21:35
> >>To: 'W3C SWEO IG'
> >>Subject: Community Project Results
> >>
> >>
> >>I've posted the results of the voting for community projects onto the
> >>secure Wiki [1]. Please let me know if you can't access the page, and
> >>I'll send you a copy of the PDF.
> >>
> >>As we discussed during today's call, I propose that we support the top 4
> >>projects, as that seems like a reasonable number of projects to track,
> >>and won't lead to too much fragmentation of effort. The top 4 proposals
> >>are also all very different, which makes it a good point to draw the
> >>line. I recommend that we invite people who submitted other project
> >>proposals to become involved in the ones SWEO will be supporting.
> >>
> >>During the call we also discussed what SWEO supporting a project means.
> >>The thoughts that we had included having a SWEO use case, highlighting
> >>the projects during conference presentations, giving demos where
> >>possible, and general blogging. Other ideas included engaging institutes
> >>such as the Semantic Web School in Austria to train students using these
> >>projects so that we get more code. Another idea would be for SWEO to
> >>host a hackathon.
> >>
> >>I'm looking forward to input from Kjetil as he's the task lead. :-)
> >>
> >>Cheers,
> >>
> >>Susie
> >>
> >>
> >>[1]
> >>
> >
> >
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/sweo/group/wiki/FrontPage?action=AttachFile&do=get
> > &tar
> >
> >>get=Community_Project.pdf
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> --
> 
> Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead
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Received on Monday, 26 February 2007 12:06:43 UTC