- From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 16:32:53 +0100
- To: "T.Heath" <T.Heath@open.ac.uk>
- CC: semantic-web@w3.org
There seem to be subcommunities both that want, and do not want, announcements. A modified version of my previous proposal would be a policy that all announcements must start with ANN: (or some other defined tag). This would allow the people who don't want the announcements to easily filter them to /dev/null. I believe we would still need a robot to enforce that rule, using the heuristics from earlier (except that messages starting ANN: would be allowed through). e.g. [[ (Auto-)Moderator message: Judging from your subject line: **Subject Line** you have attempted to post an announcement to semantic-web@w3.org. Such postings are permitted but must start with the sequence "ANN:" in the subject line. Please modify your subject line, either to include such a tag, or to not include any of the following keywords that trigger this automatic response: **aaa, bbb, ccc** . ]] Jeremy T.Heath wrote: >> - would be nice to have some sort of shared calendar where to >> put CFPs and conference dates. Not sure is possible with > GoogleCalendar, >> but would be nice. Also a "semantic" application for the >> management of this >> kind of advertising would be interesting (using SWRC for >> instance). I am thinking to the way many people usually check > conferences >> around the world: they periodically write the dates in a calendar and >> then decide where to go from a calendar view. > > The OntoWorld Wiki <http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Main_Page> has a section > for Events, intended for exactly this purpose. It's already well > populated so lets make even better use of that. It's backed by Semantic > Mediawiki, so the semantic capabilities are already there :) > >> - CFPs and similar posts could reamin in the SW mailing list, >> but their >> posting could be improved by very simply establishing a >> common prefix in >> the Subject, like "[CFP]". This way we could accomodate both who read >> such type of posts together with the rest, and who prefer to filter. > > I would vote against creating a new list. Event announcements are a > pretty key feature of the community IMHO and it would be a shame to > ghettoise these in a different location. Perhaps an automatic [SW] > subject line prefix on all mails would be a good start, plus [ANN] or > [CFP] added manually by the sender where appropriate. > > As a general rule I think many CFP mails could benefit from not using > the event acronym in the subject line; I probably don't know what > YASWE2007 stands for, but spelling it out makes it much easier for me to > filter manually by scanning the subject line. > > Cheers, > > Tom. > -- Hewlett-Packard Limited registered Office: Cain Road, Bracknell, Berks RG12 1HN Registered No: 690597 England
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