W3C

MW4D bi-monthly call

15 Sep 2008

Agenda

See also: IRC log

Attendees

Present
Jeff Sonstein (RIT), Bill Gillis (EFR Source), Stephane Boyera (W3C), Ken Banks (kiwanja.net), Joe Michiels (U. of Washington), Lauri Hirvonen (Nokia)
Regrets
Chair
Ken
Scribe
Stephane

Contents


 

 

Ken: good article on The economist to bring visibility

minutes approval

<jeffs> +1 on approving minute

<JoeM> +1

http://www.w3.org/2008/09/01-mw4d-minutes.html

+1

approved

<scribe> ACTION: Steph to post the approved minutes [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/09/15-mw4d-minutes.html#action01]

Stephane to publish minutes: done

Stephane to create a wiki page about MW4D roadmap

<scribe> :done

<kiwanja> http://www.w3.org/2008/MW4D/wiki/roadmap

Stephane to investigate and find a slot for thursday or friday and

organize a dinner

<scribe> : done friday morning for the meeting, will organzie a thursday evening dinner

Stephane to examine bookmark sharing tools that use keywords

<scribe> : postponed

mobile monday conference 3 Nov

Jeff: scheduled to talk there
... hope to convince Dan Appelquist to create a specific track on mobile and development

Stephane: i will send you some slidesets for you to use

<jeffs> thanks, steph

<scribe> ACTION: ken to send a mail to Jeffs about organizing a workshop at www2009 [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/09/15-mw4d-minutes.html#action02]

Lauri: i'm one of the founder of Mobile Monday, so happy that this is happening. tonight is in helsinky

<kiwanja> http://www.w3.org/2008/MW4D/wiki/roadmap

Roadmap

ken: joe ok to summarize your points

joe: i brainstorm a bit

and before filling the wiki, i wanted to share with the ground

steph: read your mail about the technology

very interesting input on Apllications environment

want also to add SMS, Vocie, and mobile browsing

joe: +1

ken: valuable to put on hte wiki

Jeffs: also very valuable contribution

if the mobile browsing appears, i will contributes

<JoeM> sure

Ken: discussion around the different issues

good to discuss when on hte wiki

ken: about the challenges

different axis to consider

good to consider the project cycle

starting from awareness of tools and applications

ken: good to build a ladder with different entry points

Jeffs: might consider to have 2 ladders

user and audience technology

you are a ngo,... and the second one: audience who have sms only, or browsing,...

ken: agreed

good point

perhaps even more

<scribe> ACTION: jeffs to email about the two ladders we have and the potential others about challenges [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/09/15-mw4d-minutes.html#action03]

stef: awareness of the potential is also important

bill: agreed
... for the ladder, we might want to talk about enabling environment like regulation

ken: +1

<jeffs> +1

bill: we should consider these challenges

ken: agreed
... we need to look at the regulatory environment

bill: probably need other perspective will be required in the group

<bgillis> bill can add some work on reg environment..I have some expertise in this area

<kiwanja> thanks bill

stef: out of my expertise, would need reference to learn

<bgillis> will do--add reg

ken: good if you couldlead this part, and see how to attract further expertise in this group
... for example safaricom offers now flat rate gprs in kenya, increasing a lot the web traffic on mobile phones

stef: any reference ?

<scribe> ACTION: ken to send to the group a reference on safaricom in kenya launching flat rate mobile data access [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/09/15-mw4d-minutes.html#action04]

Lauri: nokia is also infrastructure provider in developing countries

the cost of ownership of the phones is the bottleneck

<jeffs> think rate issues very relevant, correct they encourage use which leads to infrastruct build-out etc etc... low cost increases demand which increases infrastucture build-out

the carriers is charging incredible amount of money for carriers to recover on investment quickly

this is our practical learning

we believe in competition

ken: good point
... regulation: did you think to include that topics ?

bill: yes exactly

lauri: a good regulation example is europe

<kiwanja> hi jeff =)

ken: next steps: a draft on the wiki, and then Bill can move on

on regulation

<JoeM> I'll get it up tonight

<kiwanja> thanks joe

nxt call, discussion around the draft

AoB

Lauri: question about webfoundation

webfoundation.org

<JoeM> thx stef

<kiwanja> http://www.webfoundation.org

<kiwanja> just a small seed grant from knight. ;o)

<kiwanja> thanks stef

stef: explain the mission of the web foundation, and particularly the web for society program

Summary of Action Items

[NEW] ACTION: jeffs to email about the two ladders we have and the potential others about challenges [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/09/15-mw4d-minutes.html#action03]
[NEW] ACTION: ken to send a mail to Jeffs about organizing a workshop at www2009 [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/09/15-mw4d-minutes.html#action02]
[NEW] ACTION: ken to send to the group a reference on safaricom in kenya launching flat rate mobile data access [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/09/15-mw4d-minutes.html#action04]
[NEW] ACTION: Steph to post the approved minutes [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/09/15-mw4d-minutes.html#action01]
 
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