Re: Request Re Editing Charter

On 6 Dec 2011, at 4:26 PM, Roger Cutler wrote:

> I'm not clear what your initial comment about the history is intended for.  Do you want it explicitly referenced in the charter?  Or are you just pointing it out to me?  I know it's there, but to be honest I find it difficult to navigate the links in the history and understand what I'm seeing.  No doubt my skills will improve.

I was pointing it out to you and others. You mentioned history in your email but (1) it was further down and (2) no URI. So I wanted to give the URI for all to check it out.

I agree that reading diffs is not always fun and so it's friendly to summarize changes.

Ian

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> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org> wrote:
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> On 6 Dec 2011, at 2:59 PM, Roger Cutler wrote:
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> > Just to help me keep track of what's going on and to avoid getting into an unintentional do-undo back and forth -- if you edit the draft charter could you please email me and give me a hint what you did?
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> Hi Roger,
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> I want to point out up top (you mention it below) the editing history:
>  http://www.w3.org/community/oilgaschem/wiki/index.php?title=Oil,_Gas_and_Chemicals_Business_Group_Charter&action=history
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> > Ian -- I think that you took out the voting and patent sections because there are no requirements, right?
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> Right:
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> 1) The proc doc voting requirements don't apply to BGs.
> 2) The patent requirements are covered by the CLA and FSA; you could link to them but I thought it was unnecessary.
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> > It does seem to me, however, that it might be a good idea to discuss the IP framework for Community and Business Groups anyway, as an informational thing.
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> No problem with that.
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> > I have in mind pointing to the IP page for Community groups and perhaps including some "user friendly" approximate discussion along the lines that you once sent me.  Sound OK?
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> I would avoid paraphrasing the policy. You could just say something vanilla like "Contributions are made under Community and Business Group agreements" with a link to the agreements.
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> [Meanwhile, I am working on a summary of the policy (not yet ready).]
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> Ian
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> >
> > Jennifer -- I find the history tracking of the Wiki confusing and I can't figure out what you did.  Not much, as far as I can tell -- unless I am confusing what you did with what Ian did.  Did you sort of complete what he started?
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> > I am not trying to discourage anyone from adding content or modifying.
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