Hi all,

I don't want to discuss the schema.org effort in general here, although there 
surely is a lot to discuss about it. My question is how collaboration between 
Google.com and microformats.org is organized, where it's taking place, who is 
involved. I'm sure there is and has always been some informal exchange, since 
people happen to know each other, meet at confernces or other events etc, and 
of course that's fine with me. I was wondering though when I read the following 
statement in a transcript of the Schema.org BOF at SemTech 2011 
<http://www.w3.org/2011/06/semtech-bof-notes.html>:

> [...]
> Kevin Marks: Microformats says have a discussion first. You did that with 
> hRecipe, so I'm surprsed to see you didnt go through that here. That'a the 
> difference in phsilophy
> Tantek Çelik: Google (Kavi in particular!) successfully worked with the open 
> community on both hReview-aggregate and hRecipe - openly.
> [...]
> Kevin Marks: hRecipe was a great example of how Google can do this.
> [...]


This sounds like quite some conversations, discussions and thorough work. Now I 
wonder: how specifically did that "great" and "successfull" work "with the open 
community" go? Where did it take place? Who was involved? And what exactly was 
worked out?
I won't hesitate to admit that I wasn't a very good editor of hRecipe since 
summer 2009 but I still am the editor as indicated on the hRecipe wikipage. I 
wasn't contacted by anyone regarding Rich Snippets, Schema.org or any other 
Google activity. Also I couldn't find any mention on the mailinglists or on the 
wiki. So, please: what's going on, what did I miss? Or how is this "open"? 

Since Schema.org now promotes a recipe vocabulary that is slightly different 
from hRecipe and also more elaborated I would like to discuss what to do about 
that: maybe analyze the differences, observe uptake, then align hRecipe where 
appropriate etc. But before I start to work on that I'd like to understand what 
happened until now.

Cheers,
Thomas Lörtsch



°|´             < in pursuit of the gestalt of it all />
^^^


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