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<josema> kjetil, are you around?
<josema> you are supposed to scribe today
<kjetil> josema, yeah, but phone problems
<josema> scribe: josema
kevin: welcome everybody, thanks for coming
josema: apologies for sending the documents so late
[introducing new Members]
[Tanya, John not here, jose and Kevin give short intro]
<scribe> scribe: kjetil
[Ari mentions Openhouse project by Sunlight]
trond: representative from Oracle
... previously worked for the European Commission
josema: Martin Mollema (NL) is not around
either, joining the Group soon
josema: I got regrets from a few people, but
not all, so it is difficult to know who is on the call
... please send us your regrets to the mailing list, or the chairs
... we have to pre-book ports on the conference system, so please let us know
a little in advance
<josema> http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/IG/track/actions/open
josema: mentions some long acronyms we should
be in touch with
... we are chartered to find ways to cooperate
[reviewing some of liaisons here]
[Kevin is reporting on ongoing efforts to establish collaborations]
[potential joint event with OASIS in March in DC]
[The World Bank could provide room and some logistics]
[late March]
[talked about funding, they are putting together an internal proposal??]
[talked about open standards and the use in their projects]
[Kevin to speak at FIRM event on September, 24th]
<chris> i'm on
<josema> hope so
<chris> not sure
<josema> maybe aagg
<josema> chris, is your number +1.202.488--something
<chris> yes, that's me. i'm on mute
josema: let us look at wikis for the TF's, lets also hear their leaders
Kevin: before we do that, let us go back to the
workshop in spring
... what should that look like?
... we are already two weeks into the time span for this group, and we need
to speed up now
<josema> Group Outline
<josema> Activity Plan
<josema> [kevin reviews plan]
<josema> yes, we need feedback!!
<josema> we need the expertise from the Group
chris: I would like to review the group activity and align that with the actions for the task force
josema: these plans are not fixed, they are
food for thought
... we are trying to find out what the eGov Activity should be, not just for
the present IG
... there are lots of questions about what we should do
[Kevin leaves call]
josema: there is an article from some guys at
Princeton about open government
... it got a lot of attention, in blogs and so on
... it says the govt should stop publishing websites and focus on publishing
open data
... to use by persons and organisations
... we will send the reference, when I have it handy
... if anybody has it handy, please send it to the group list? Owen,
please?
... I will try to find it
... task force chairs: what do you expect from your task force?
owen: will do
chris: I have heard from some individuals about
interest in the TF
... I will be updating the use case documents
josema: I have been reviewing guidelines from
several countries
... some countries say "follow these specs, this performance level" and so
on
<pasquale> sorry, I am not able to continue, hi all
josema: several countries have been working on
this
... would it be interesting to compile "the best of the best"?
chris.a: Yeah, I think that would be very interesting
josema: Rachel, if the group would produce that, would it be useful for you?
rachel: the guiding principles are there
... we have documented a lot of practices
... the more we can do the same way not only in the US, but all over the
world, the better it is
josema: I hope a lot of people will send you email about joining this TF effort
<josema> september... I'm full of energy :)
ari: please put up the things that you read and find interesting to the wiki
josema: how do you envision the TF work?
ari: the goal is to find out how open standards
are used to gain transparancy, and where are the gaps
... the short term goals is to find out what's out there
josema: any other comments?
[none heard]
josema: any other comments?
... let us talk about IG Notes
... we are supposed to produce one for each TF
... we have two months to produce those
... we are supposed to be doing that right now, and we have not really
started
... I will try to push a little bit
... I will try to help with the W3C editing principles, which are not very
hard, but they are there, and involve valid (X)HTML and things like that
... we have very tight deadlines now
josema: I sent an email about the F2F
meeting
... the meeting is in Mandelieu, near Cannes
... the discount rate expires on next monday
<Beng> jose's mail is : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-egov-ig/2008Aug/0004.html
josema: there are other hotels of course
... the deadline for the meeting is sept 28
... this is the TPAC, the Technical Plenary, which is the main W3C technical
meeting
... it is one of the best meetings in the year, highly recommended
... if we need to interact with other groups, the best experts will be
there
... most meetings are open to observers, so you may join other meetings
... this is very useful to learn technologies, and all the experts are
there
[Important dates: sept 8th and sept 28th]
josema: any questions?
[none heard]
josema: Kevin allready mentioned OASIS and the
World Bank
... we are in a state where we try to gain more knowledge about each other
... we will return to the group with reports
<josema> http://www.semic.eu
josema: we have had some interest from the
Semantic Interoperability in Europe (SEMIC.EU)
... this is especially relevant to data integration
... we will meet with the project in Brussels
... how do we see that vision
... they are compiling a repository of "interoperability assets"
... I will find out more about this in two weeks from now in the meeting
Trond: it is a very interesting project, with large challenges
<josema> Ontaria
josema: Ontaria was a related W3C project
... that project is paused
... I will try to find out more
kjetil: mentioned the liasons established by Computas
<josema> I lost my phone connection :(
josema: any further questions?
... please take a look at the documents
... thank you all!
... next meeting: 17 Sept.
[ADJOURNED]
<josema> thanks all for particippating today
<josema> thanks kjetil for scribing!
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