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Melvin, can you say anything about how you expect the community group to be run? As chair, will you be setting some kind of agenda? Are there any work-products that are expected? Will you host meetings from time to time, or will it all be written?
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Melvin Carvalho 2y ago

Hi Bob, thanks for trying Nostr! Let's see who joins first, but community groups are the most causal part of the W3C.

Generally CG's decide what they want to work on, and it's driven by the participants. We will be a small group so there will likely be reduced activity. However, there is likely to be a lot of new tooling emerge in the next year.

One thing I'd like to work on is a schema for Linked Data and the Semantic Web. I've made a start on it here.

https://github.com/nostrcg/schema

Other things we can look at are a documenation for beginners (users and devs) and also to track and document existing nostr work in web standards, such as did nostr.

We have 12 people so far, and I've invited a few others. I'll give folks a bit more time to join, then I'll send out a welcome email.

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229a11e3... 2y ago

BTW: Melvin, given that you've long worked with W3C projects, and that you're a member of the SocialWeb Community Group, I would be curious to understand why you've invested so much effort in Nostr rather than W3C protocols, such as ActivityStreams/ActivityPub. What advantages does Nostr have over the W3C standards? What can you do with Nostr that you can't do with AS/AP or other standards?