- From: Eric Miller <em@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 09:49:52 -0400
- To: semantic-web@w3.org
I'm increasingly asked if there are communities of people getting together in various physical locations working on / learning about the Semantic Web. I take this as a good and healthy sign of success, but my responses are spotty at best. And while I know about some regional groups (Bristol, Washington DC, Buenos Aires, Montreal, NY, Melbourne, etc.) what I don't know is the best way they have found to manage, organize, start such groups. The next question people ask me is 'how can i start one?' and for this I'd really like to provide them some guidance. Are people using meetup [1]? is there something better? What have people found that works, what doesn't? My assumption at this point is that things are ad-hoc at best, but any advice, lessons-learned, etc. we can provide I believe will help jump-start a growing number of localized semweb groups. Eventually, I think it would be cool to see each of these groups publish a bit or RDF describing themselves and plot them on a map [2]. Additionally, RSS feeds of relevant information collected, organized by geography, etc. would give a whole new dimension to something like "planet rdf" [3]. But at this point I'd be happy just to find out from others what they find that works. :) Thought, input, feedback welcomed... -- eric miller http://www.w3.org/people/em/ semantic web activity lead http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ w3c world wide web consortium http://www.w3.org/ [1] http://semweb.meetup.com/ [2] http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/pim/travel [3] http://planetrdf.com/
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