• Nearby: there's an adhoc mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/sdo-iot-sync
• Dedicated github repo: https://github.com/iot-schema-collab
• Slack: https://iot-schema-collab.slack.com/ (contact davidjanes@iotdb.org to join)
• Custom Search Engine of related sites/repos (contact danbri, Michael Koster, Darko Anicic, Max Senges to add/edit the included sites)

There have been a variety of conversations around schema.org-meets-IoT and they would benefit from having a home closer to the project as well as an integrated entry point (for which I suggest iot.schema.org).

Given 1.) that there is already a large (in fact the largest) W3C Community Group devoted to (the highly related idea of) "Web of Things" ) 2.) this is a topic that relates strongly to parties beyond the W3C environment e.g. IAB/IETF, I have taken the liberty of setting up a simple ad-hoc public mailing list, sdo-iot-sync@googlegroups.com, rather than our usual practice of initiating a new W3C Community Group. I suggest that we accompany this with a simple entry point at iot.schema.org and will proceed in that direction unless anyone flags a concern. More focussed and tightly-scoped collaborative activities might happen in dedicated (e.g. community) groups at W3C or elsewhere, but for now there is no simple place for discussion of "schema.org meets the Internet of Things". I'd like to fix that ASAP.

IoT-related applications are incredibly diverse and are highly inter-related with other application themes such as health-lifesci, e-commerce, geospatial, datasets, sensors etc. Many existing schema.org schemas are also highly relevant to IoT applications. To make the most of this potential, and to provide a place where IoT-oriented schema proposals, extensions and implementations can be discovered, let's create a simple one page gateway via a "stub" hosted extension, iot.schema.org. It remains to be seen whether actually hosting schemas there, rather than by adding to the core vocabulary or externally, is the right path. Quite likely we may do a little of each. For now I am concerned primarily with surfacing ad-hoc conversations in a way that allows more visibility and wider collaboration amongst those enthused about semantic interoperability for the Internet of Things.

Copying schema.org steering group for info / advice / sanity check: @rvguha @shankarnat @chaals @vholland @scor @mfhepp.