- From: John Joseph Bachir <jjb@ibiblio.org>
- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:24:48 -0400 (EDT)
- To: public-html@w3.org
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Marcos Caceres wrote: > IRC and mailing lists are accessible and have gotten the job done in the > past... If it ain't broke, why fix it, right? I agree that email and IRC are simple tools that get the job done. Seems like there are a few questions that have emerged: [1] Should IRC replace phone conferencing? Personally I am on IRC all day and am very confortable with it, but clearly there is a VAST difference in the type of communication that happens in a phone conference vs. IRC, so the idea of replacing one for the other strikes me as rather radical. [2] Should we have an online forum (presumably to move most of the email dialogue into that space)? My initial feeling is that an online forum would be inappropriate for this effort. Compared to this email list, it would result in considerable segmentation of the dialogue. [3] Should we have any other tools at our disposal? I think a wiki would be very appropriate. A space to develop and annotate evolving documents is a perfect fit for an effort seeking to develop standards. Of course, a wiki can also result in considerable segmentation as well (there could be 3 parallel groups of people evolving a forms standard, all unaware of one another). But I don't imagine that's a problem that this small and media-literate community will have. -- John Bachir http://lyceum.ibiblio.org/ http://blog.johnjosephbachir.org/ aim/yim/msn/jabber.org/gtalk: johnjosephbachir 713-494-2704 irc://irc.freenode.net/lyceum
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