The Marmotta proposal refers to the W3C LDP Working Group [1].
Participation in W3C working groups is by representatives of member
organisations [*] or, occasionally, as an invited expert. For example,
Nandana is on the WG via Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
That makes it difficult for people from non-member organisations to
fully participate in the working group discussions. It is possible to
make comments [5], which the WG is required to respond to, but it is on
separate mailing lists. If you aren't on the WG, you can't send to the
WG mailing list [4] directly.
If you work for member organisation, you should go via that route to
make the IP issues clear.
But if you are not an employee of a W3C member, there is another way.
ASF is a member of W3C.
ASF will nominate committers who want to join a working group and that
includes committers of projects in incubation.
Currently work areas are the use case and requirements document [3] and
refining the spec [2]. There are lots of open issues [6] - they are a
bit cryptic if you haven't been following the discussions.
If any committer of Marmotta wants to join the LDP-WG via the ASF route
then the process is that you are nominated by the ASF W3C rep ... which
currently is me :-).
At the moment, ASF has two people on the LDP-WG: myself and Henry Story.
I'm not very active, and Henry is mainly focused on WebId and it's
relationship to LDP. If having 3 is raised as a issue, I'll step aside
(there isn't a formal limit as far as I know).
One note of caution: to be effective on a WG requires keeping up with
the discussions. It does require time spent each week to keep up with
the email traffic, before even participating in discussions. It is not
a step to be taken too lightly. You are making a personal commitment
to the IP policy of the working group so check that out.
Current members of the WG => [7]
I wouldn't describe all of them as "active".
Andy
[*] Good use of semweb:
A ASF Member is a person
A W3C Member is an organisation
Very different uses of "member"!
[1] http://www.w3.org/2012/ldp/wiki/Main_Page
[2] Editors' working draft: Linked Data Platform 1.0
http://www.w3.org/2012/ldp/hg/ldp.html
[3] Editors' working draft: UC&R:
http://www.w3.org/2012/ldp/wiki/Use_Cases_And_Requirements
[4] Working group list:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ldp-wg/
[5] Working group comments list:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ldp/
[6] Open issues:
http://www.w3.org/2012/ldp/track/issues/open
[7]
http://www.w3.org/2000/09/dbwg/details?group=55082&public=1
