Re: W3C FSW community group Re: OneSocialWeb Project Status

Andreas,

I would support the creation of a new FSW community group.

However, I think Harry was planning to get it started.

Can you coordinate with him first?

-Evan

On 01/11/2012 03:24 PM, Andreas Kuckartz wrote:
> The W3C Federated Social Web Incubator Group also is inactive since it
> ended on 15 December 2011.
> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/charter
>
> I am cross-posting to the still functioning W3C Federated Social Web
> Incubator mailing list.
>
> I remember that a decision was made a few months ago to create a W3C FSW
> community group. But as far as I know this has not yet been done. If
> there are no objections and no other volunteers I will attempt to do
> that next week.
>
> It would also be a good home for OneSocialWeb people. I do not think
> that it currently would make sense to create a separate OSW community group.
>
> The most appropriate home for the development of protocols such as XMPP
> XEPs might be xmpp.org. But that also requires people who contribute.
>
> Cheers,
> Andreas
> ---
>
> On 11.01.2012 18:08, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
>> On 7 January 2012 16:39, Daniel Appelquist<appelquist@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Hi all --
>>>
>>>  From a perspective of an ex-"product manager" on OSW I would love to see the protocol and code taken up and used by others. Everything is open source. However, if anyone would like to evolve the protocol significantly then I would like to recommend doing it within the context of a w3c community group: http://www.w3.org/community/
>>>
>>> Community groups are a new process by which working groups can be spun up quickly with very little overhead and no cost - groups that anyone can participate in (not only people from w3c member organizations). Although I cannot offer much of my time right now I would definitely help set up the infrastructure and support for creation of such a group.
>>>
>>> </end-plug>
>> +1 to community group
>>
>> If someone wants to start one, I'd be happy to vote it up.  I'm sure
>> it would not be an issue to get it approved ...
>>
>>> Thanks and best of luck,
>>> Dan

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