First week, a birth for Social Web Incubator Group
On January 15-16, W3C organized a workshop about Future of Social Networking in Barcelona, Spain. Participation was a success. 72 rich papers have been submitted. Read them, share them. A summary of the discussions (pdf version)of the Workshop is now available.
The Social Web Incubator Group has been created and started last week with its first teleconference on May 6, 2009. You can read the raw minutes or see the summary below. Incubator Activity at W3C is a way to foster and gather people quickly around the interests of a specific community.
Toby A Inkster created a planet social aggregating the news around Social Web activities at W3C and extended communities and also a group on identi.ca, the open source microblogging platform working with laconi.ca.
There is also an IRC channel, #swxg, on W3C IRC server (irc.w3.org:6665), a mailing list and a wiki for the group.
Around 30 persons participated to the first teleconference with very diverse communities, backgrounds and countries (China, UK, Canada, USA, France, etc.). A few decisions have been taken on how the group will operate.
- A weekly 1 hour teleconference on Wednesday, 13:00-15:00Z
- There will be 3 documents: Technical document, Use Case document, and a final report on the work of the Incubator Group.
- To stay focus on things which are done in the community, there will be invited speakers who will introduce specific issues around their technologies and activities.
Some people volunteers for editing the documents, but no decision has been made yet on who will take the lead for each document. (guessed from IRC nicknames and by order from IRC)
- Technical Document: Salvachua, Toby A Inkster, Karl Dubost
- Use Case: Jeff Sonstein, Karl Dubost, Phil Archer, Fabien Gandon
- Final Report: Christine Perey, Tim Anglade, Dan Brickley, Jed Sundwall, Fabien Gandon
