Minutes of SWSA Telecon of June 15, 2004 Tim Finin, Michal Zaremba, Mike Dean, Stuart Williams, Mark Burstein Christoph at DIP meeting, Michal representing him for today. Topics for today: 1. Scheduling of SWSA F2F meetings 2. process for submitting documents to w3c There was not a quorum for a SWSA meeting at AAMAS in NYC July 16-17. Other possible dates/places for meetings: In Boston or Washington DC at BBN facilities In Galway, Ireland or in England (Bristol?). One possibility for a European meeting that adjacent (in time) to the Dagstuhl on Semantic Web that Amit is organizing, which is to take place the week of September 20. Best there would be the week before, such as Sept 14-5 or 15-6. Tim F thought it would make it too long a period for him to be away from teaching. Stuart said that Universities in UK would not have started by then. Another possibility is to do one in mid August, most likely the week of August 16, in either Galway or Boston. Stuart could do Boston that week on his way back from Canada to London. I'm open to doing two meetings, one on the East coast and one in Galway, if that helps different members to be able to attend at least one of them. Perhaps he could do one in Galway after his return, such as Aug 19-20. Mark will poll the group again... ----------------------------- On submission to W3C Mike Dean: Note is called a "Member Submission" W3.org/submission has details on their format, We need a w3c member to do the submission, which goes to the whole community, but elicits a response from w3c. This "Clears the intelectual property hurdle." in the sense that authors must release IP. SW: It needs to be mailed by the ac rep of the member company. We looked at the W3C Process document, http://www.w3.org/2004/02/Process-20040205 which says in section 7.1.2 that Interest Groups (such as SWS-IG) can publish "Interest Group Notes". These do not advance toward recommendations (but we guess may help toward establishing Working Groups- though to date this has not been done). Several other alternatives were discussed. 1. Making the documents be submissions to a pre-Working Group workshop (which implies that we (SWSI) are collectively participating in the creation of a Semantic Web Services WG, including helping Katia to recruit industrial partners. 2. Making the paper be the product of the SWS-IG, by participating actively in that mailing list, and getting some kind of ad hoc concensus from the list that this is a work product of "theirs/ours". This last approach was discussed somewhat extensively, and MB has volunteered to talk with Carine Bournez, W3C, Interest Group Chair about this tactic.