On 18/10/13 17:27, Sergio Fernández wrote:
FYI: W3C is plannin to start a Data on the Web Best Practices Working
Group, you can check the current version of the charter at:
http://www.w3.org/2013/05/odbp-charter.html
Personally I find its scope very interesting, and some things are
relevant for Marmotta: publishing and accessing versions of data,
technical factors for consideration when choosing data sets for
publication, etc.
So maybe the ASF could join the working group... what do you think?
<ASF-W3C-rep>
Yes, someone (or several someones) can.
If someone works for a W3C member already, it is better to join via your
employer because the IP situation, and the terms&conditions of your
employment, is clear that way. (So this isn't way to bypass your
employer saying "no" ... then the IP situation would be extremely messy
and may well violate your employment contract unless the employer is in
some quite different industry.)
If someone does not work for a W3C member, they can sign-up via ASF.
</ASF-W3C-rep>
Personal experience of W3C WGs:
Joining a working group is not the way to watch the WG work; it would be
quite inefficient to do it for that reason. Watch the publications and
scan the mailing list. Unfortunately, nowadays WGs stop non-WG-members
subscribing - certainly non-WG-members can't be allowed to post (IP
implications) - but there is no read-only mode.
Plan on active participation, not passive. Plan to attend telecons
(which is required for "good standing" although this is not often enforced).
As a "best practices" (BP) group, it may well be that some work tracks
are interesting and some are not. BP groups tend to have several
reasonably separate stream is of activity and not one single focus.
Andy
