On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Michiel B. de Jong <
anything@michielbdejong.com> wrote:
> just a small point of terminology,
>
>
> On 2013-06-12 14:29, Goix Laurent Walter wrote:
>
>> i’m interested in both approaches, although i’d like to see really
>> some gathering around a single - main - bottom-up project as main
>> driver for all the activities (also as leitmotiv of the top-down
>> documentation and knowledge sharing part)
>>
>
> To encourage people to gather around a single standard would be top-down,
> not bottom-up, the "top" being this one single standard, and the "bottom"
> being all the software projects that are being encouraged to implement that
> standard.
>
> With bottom-up i mean everybody can take pro-active initiatives "at the
> bottom", and we use this forum to compare notes and learn "up" from each
> other ("describe").
>
> With top-down i mean trying to reach consensus ("top") and to prescribe
> that consensus "down" to the software project
+1 thanks for the clarification, I noticed the same misunderstanding.
Received on Wednesday, 12 June 2013 14:23:11 UTC