Re: Proposal to develop best practice document to focus work of W3C FSW Community Group

On 10 May 2013 12:04, Michiel B. de Jong <anything@michielbdejong.com>wrote:

> On 2013-05-08 14:56, Andreas Kuckartz wrote:
>
>> Michiel B. de Jong:
>>
>>> i think instead of creating a best practice document, we can just make
>>> sure the wiki is complete and up-to-date:
>>>
>>>     http://www.w3.org/2005/**Incubator/federatedsocialweb/**
>>> wiki/Main_Page<http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/wiki/Main_Page>
>>>
>>
>> Yes, updating the Wiki is necessary. Volunteers are welcome ;-)
>>
>
> wait, i don't understand your reply. i meant that this document should
> be a subset of the content of the wiki. so then:
>
> 1) the current wiki content is a good starting point for this document
> 2) we can use the wiki instance as our document versioning system, by
> simply making every section we write into a wiki page (instead of emailing
> it around etc.)
> 3) as we write the new best practice document, we are updating the wiki,
> because the best practice document is a subset of the wiki
>
> so then "best practice document volunteers" === "wiki volunteers".
>
> and yes, i totally agree this initiative is very welcome! it is easy to
> sometimes forget how incredibly important this tiny discussion group is for
> the future of the world's (social) infrastructure as a whole.
>
>
>  I did not propose any procedures on how to make potentially
>> controversial decisions. But it is possible that votes are also relevant
>> information for readers of the document.
>>
>
> ok, fair enough!
>
>
>  And sometimes it can help to promote interoperability by explicitly
>> recommending one of two or more alternatives. But we do not need to
>> discuss that now. We can do that when such a concrete controversy arises.
>>
>
> sounds like a plan.
>
>
>  In general the document can and should concentrate on those aspects
>> where there is rather broad consensus. I am confident and hopeful that
>> the document will not be empty when this is a guideline.
>>
>
> great! let's do it. but as i said, let's use the existing wiki as our
> content management system for this.
>

I think in an ideal world we'd like to have a best practice document AND
keep the wiki up to date .. the two need not be mutually exclusive :)


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>
> My 2ct,
> Michiel de Jong.
>
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