[OWL] Oops (really moving the WG mailing list to a W3C one)

[Peter F. Patel-Schneider]

In sum, I am neutral with respect to this proposal.  I see some advantages, but
also some disadvantages.

I think that one prerequisite for the move would be W3C blessing the use of the
mailing list for OWL 1.1 development.  

Note that my documents call for discussion in semantic-web at w3c.org.  This is an
even more general list.  One problem with public-owl-dev at w3.org is the "-dev",
which may be off-putting.

peter


From: Bijan Parsia <bparsia at isr.umd.edu>
Subject: [OWL] Oops
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 23:13:21 -0500

> Y'know, I realized that I (and we collectively) had a bit of a brain 
> fart. There was an existing public mailing list devoted to talking 
> about OWL -- http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-owl-dev/
> 
> Stupid me.
> 
> So, I thought I'd at least mention this list and work (and do a 
> Workshop report, or forward peter's) to that list. But we should also 
> consider moving this traffic over there. There are a number of reasons 
> stemming from its being in W3C space :
> 
> 1)  one way the W3C gauges interest in a working group is by the 
> traffic on its lists devoted to certain topics. public-owl-dev gets 
> little traffic right now

This is rather ego-centric of them.  They should instead measure the total
amount of "noise" related to OWL.

> 2) it's more prominant, so people with have an easier time finding and 
> participating (ooo, could be a bad thing :))

There

> 3) it's in a "neutral" space (though, really, *I* don't think it 
> matters :))

I don't view W3C as particularly neutral.  Some of the aspects of OWL 1.1 do
not fit into their world view.

> I don't think it's the largest deal, but perhaps after 1.1 is hammered 
> out, we should consider make that the "home list" of the workshop and 
> community.
> 
> Give how little it is used, I don't *think* we have to worry about 
> dilution of focus or disruption.
> 
> Cheers,
> Bijan.