The following came up at Joi Ito's Emergent Democracy Happening.
http://www.socialtext.com/workspace/index.cgi?Social%20Software%20Alliance
(You'll need to register at http://www.socialtext.com ) I just want to
add that our laboratory, Minciu Sodas, could function as such a "central
nexus", if that's helpful. Best wishes, Andrius, ms@ms.lt (01)
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A proposed trade group. The following is a draft Call For Discussion.
Comments and edits to this should go to the mailing list or wiki listed
in the Discussion section below. (03)
CALL FOR DISCUSSION: Social Software Alliance (04)
PURPOSE AND SCOPE (05)
We propose a trade group of social software developers who work together
to create and promote open standards for the social software community. (06)
Social software is a dynamic and constantly evolving environment, rich
with possibilities to create better connections between people. With a
growing number of active developers, we need a central nexus to help
drive the process of coordination and interoperability between different
developers' products. (07)
The alliance will: (08)
* aid discovery of developers working on synergistic projects and
standards
* assist in shaping open standards that mesh well with other
alliance and Internet standards
* help promote each standard to gain wider adoption (09)
The fast-paced nature of the social software space now argues for
developing light-weight, easy-to-implement standards, following the
Internet tradition of rough consensus and running code, but perhaps
moving faster than the larger standards bodies. It is expected that
those standards promulgated by the alliance which become widely adopted
will be proposed into the appropriate general standards body or bodies:
W3C, IETF, ISO, etc. (010)
PROPOSED SCHEDULE (011)
* Draft CFD published: April 11, 2003
* Finished CFD published: April 15, 2003
* SSA Happening (voice/online meeting): April 18, 2003 (time TBD
based on participants' time zones)
* BoF at Etech conference: April 22-25, 2003
* SSA Happening (voice/online meeting): May 2, 2003 (time TBD based
on participants' time zones)
* Alliance announced with founding members: May 15, 2003 (012)
DISCUSSION (013)
We are currently discussing this draft Call For Discussion on an email
list and a wiki set up for the purpose of discussing the formation of an
alliance. The list information: (014)
subscribe: blank email to social-subscribe@lists.polycot.com
unsubscribe: see List-Unsubscribe header in any list email
help with list server: social-help@lists.polycot.com
digest: social-digest-subscribe@lists.polycot.com
archive: http://lists.polycot.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi/2/ (015)
There is also a persistent collaboration wiki: (016)
registration: http://www.socialtext.net/ssa-registration/
wiki: http://www.socialtext.net/ssa/ (017)
It is expected that similar and additional discussion and collaboration
tools will be migrated to the alliance's web presence, once it is created. (018)
FOUNDING MEMBERS (019)
Peter Kaminski
peter.kaminski@socialtext.com
CTO, Socialtext (020)
Jon Lebkowsky
jonl@polycot.com
CEO, Polycot Consulting (021)
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