- From: Indra Chandon <indra@semantia.com.au>
- Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 18:26:54 +1000
- To: semantic-web@w3.org
- Message-ID: <4275E44E.6030907@semantia.com.au>
In follow up to Eric Miller's message about local SemWeb communities. Hi, my name is Indra and I was the Melbourne, Australia Semantic Web Meetup organiser, until meetup.com introduced a monthly fee of USD$9.00 for hosting our community. I became a Semantic Web Meetup member first, after seeing a blog entry about one of the other communities. I later volunteered as a local organiser, when meetup.com initiated the organiser role for each community. As a meetup.com organiser, you become responsible for promoting the community, as well as co-ordinating meetings and moderating the BB and other information sources. The challenges from my perspective are in the long term committment of members and organisers. As Charles indicated in his reply, an organiser (or someone else) needs to be at all face-to-face meetings to help provide the community with a sense of stability. Leandro mentions the need to provide a log of events so that you can keep members informed, interested and motivated, even when they are unable to actively participate (attend meetings). I am attempting to keep the Melbourne Semantic Web community alive and out of debt. In response to the payment being requested by meetup.com I setup a BB as a substitute. Whilst the members of our community have been sent an email with details of the new site, so far none have moved across. If there is anyone from other SemWeb communities out there (anywhere in the world), I'd really welcome suggestions, proposals or morale support. Regards, Indra -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Indra Chandon Semantia Pty Ltd PO Box 7301 St Kilda Road, Victoria 8004 AUSTRALIA Tel: + 61 3 9419 9773 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email is intended for the use of the individual or entity named above and may contain information that is confidential and privileged. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please immediately notify us by return email or telephone +61 3 9419 9773 and destroy the original message. Thank you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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