+1 For an example of how wonderful and also not-Wikipedia this can be, check out:
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PortlandPatternRepository If you haven't seen this yet, it's the best wiki ever, a sprawling hyperlinked conversation that covers just about every concept in programming, with lots of opinion and historical tidbits (i.e., it's not an encyclopedia at all and isn't trying to be) and a focus on people, places, and patterns. On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Carl Gundel <ca...@psychesystems.com>wrote: > Why not use a wiki to collaborate and organize thoughts and information?** > ** > > ** ** > > -Carl**** > > ** ** > > *From:* fonc-boun...@vpri.org [mailto:fonc-boun...@vpri.org] *On Behalf Of > *CHM de Beer > *Sent:* Wednesday, June 15, 2011 10:21 AM > *To:* fonc@vpri.org > *Subject:* [fonc] Consolidation and collaboration**** > > ** ** > > Hello fonc members, > > Over the past year I have greatly enjoyed, and benefited from, threads on > this mailing list, written by individuals with far greater understanding and > insight than I will ever master. The diversity, and somewhat seasonal > traffic, does make me wonder if we are maximising the impact of our efforts. > > Would there be value in a platform for us to; capture all the ideas and > initiatives, distil them into groups, reduce them to a handful concepts to > explore, and finally focus all our efforts on. Obviously that means I may > have to relinquish a pet project, but I am surprisingly comfortable with it, > if substantial progress on fundamentals of new computing results. > > Consider the typical mail from Dr. Kay. He would comment: "Back in 196x, > we considered *this*, but elected to go with *that*, because of *some > reason*," or "we did *this*, going forward you should consider *something > else*." In my imagination I can see as many opinions as there were people > in the room. Yet the language suggest the initiatives were reduced to a > handful, and then pursued with vigour. Just think of what we can do by > following the same pattern, and we have the added benefit of doing it as a > virtual, distributed team. > > Significant action is needed, because I fear the odds are stacked against > us. Invention receives no attention, and innovation (even when incorrectly > understood) receives lip service in the press, but no current-day vehicle > exists to to nurture it. The only hope I have, is that a number of talented > individuals pool their energy and collaborate towards fundamentally changing > computing. > > I am willing to start a database of ideas and initiatives if there are at > least a few in the fonc group that agree in principle. > > Regards, > > Marius > > -- > mobile: +1 604 369 1854 > skype: chmdebeer > twitter: twitter.com/chmdebeer**** > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > > -- Casey Ransberger
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