- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 09:24:21 -0600
- To: las@olin.edu
- CC: www-webont-wg@w3.org
Lynn Andrea Stein wrote: > [...] > Now the message I was going to send Dan.... > > Interesting. I had to leave the telecon before the HW was discussed, > but I did read the assignment. Several times, in fact. It wasn't until > I'd read it after Dan's message, and then reread it once more again, > that I saw the parenthetical phrase: > (written responses earlier to mailing list encouraged) > > I did my homework, but I understood the (first) deliverable to be a > readiness to participate in the brainstorming today. I've thought about > what I'd look for in an ontology language, and about my use cases, but > I, for one, didn't realize that I was expected to share them on the > mailing list rather than in the telecon. I am extremely sympathetic to > Dan's concern that this group will only succeed with the active > participation of its members, but also believe that expectations must be > clearly spelled out. With all due respect, prior posting of use cases > wasn't. Quite. I read more into the homework message than was there. I don't think of teleconferences as the time to actually do work; I think of email as the primary mechanism for technical exchange; I think of teleconferences as just a weekly sync point, a natural deadline for sending mail messages ;-) -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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