Thinking Clearly .

The 2nd OWLED workshop has successfully come and gone; and the 2nd biggest news is that next year’s will be held in Innsbruck—which works fine, since Katie and I were planning to take our parents to Rome for a week at just about the same time, so it looks like a good deal of June will be spent in Europe. Woohoo!

The 1st biggest news is the increased momentum to do another version of OWL, which is being informally called “OWL 1.1”—though, as I suggested at OWLED, “1.1” or “2.0” or some other revision marker is a marketing decision and should be made in the future.

Yes, as with every W3C charter ever, there are some factions and proponents and opponents, etc., but this time it all seems relatively low-key and workable. I don’t hear any deal-breaker positions being taken yet that can’t be reasonably (if not happily! :)) accommodated. This is a good thing.

As I also tried to point out at OWLED, when you get 65 to 80 people (10 to 20 W3C-member organizations, plus probably 30 interested non-members) in a room and there are only 3 people who aren’t sure that another WG should be formed, while everyone else is sure, that’s called consensus.

Bijan’s last post has nice coverage of some of the technical details, but I wanted to use this post to just celebrate two nice facts: next June in Italy and Austria (yay!!); and OWL is showing all the signs of a vibrant technology on the move.

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