- From: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 10:12:03 -0400
- To: webont <www-webont-wg@w3.org>
- Cc: Eric Miller <em@w3.org>, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
WOWG members - Although we resolved last Thursday that we would try to do a press release, it was contingent on the ability of getting permission from the W3C team, and also was contingent on the W3C being able to provide the significant necessary support from both the communications and semantic web activity teams. It turns out that W3C policy requests at least 4 week notice for press releases (more in the summer when people are on vacation) and there just weren't enough people available to turn out a press release in so much shorter a time (W3C press releases come out in multiple languages and require a number of tasks including getting them marked up for RSS feeds and the like). So, due the fact that this is vacation time, that there's many other things going in both the Sem Web Activity and the W3C as a whole, it looks like the only way to do a Press Release would be to hold up our documents. However, given the importance of our documents to people trying to make strategic decisions about semantic web-related activities (esp those with EU and US govt Fiscal Year constraints), the W3C folks and I felt that it was more important to use Dan's time and other W3C resources to get our documents out. Apologies for getting people's hopes up, and we will be sure that in later circumstances we will arrange things further ahead and work out these sorts of issues before trying to move forward with publicity -- when we get to recommendation status (and all your efforts in getting these documents done convinces me we will do so), we will make sure we get the publciity we deserve. Onward... Jim H.
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