[geolang-comment] Welcome!

[Lars Marius Garshol <larsga@garshol.priv.no>]

Hello everyone, and welcome to the open GeoLang TC list!

The GeoLang TC will not exist formally until the F2F meeting in
Seattle, where the TC will constitute itself. This TC was proposed by
a number of people from the core of the topic maps standardization
activity, and these people intended for it to have a rather narrow
focus. 

It has now attracted the interest of people well beyond that tiny
core, and therefore I think it is appropriate that we discuss where
each of us would like to see this TC go and what we would like to see
it do, before we formally constitute the TC in Seattle. In this
process we may find that we want to adjust the charter.

I will kick off a separate thread for that discussion with a posting
that explains the historical background of this TC. There are also
some liaison issues to consider, but I'd like to wait with those for a
little while. Before that, however, I would like each of the
subscribers to this list to present himself or herself and what their
interest in the TC is to the others, so we have some idea who we are.

I guess it is only appropriate that I start off. :-)

I work as development manager at Ontopia, a topic map services and
software company that I founded together with Steve Pepper and Geir
Ove Grønmo. I have been following the topic map standardization work
since mid-1999, and have been participating actively since mid-2000.

At the moment I am a member of the OASIS Published Subjects TC as well
as the XML Vocabulary TC. I am also a member of ISO SC34/WG3, where I
am one of the editors of the revised topic map standard, as well as a
co-editor of the topic map query language standard (TMQL).

My interest in this TC is general, in the sense that I as an
implementor want to enable certain localization features in topic map
software, and I have an interest in enabling topic maps in general to
merge correctly. I am also, of course, a standards-head.

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Lars Marius Garshol, Ontopian         <URL: http://www.ontopia.net >
ISO SC34/WG3, OASIS GeoLang TC        <URL: http://www.garshol.priv.no >