I believe it is the first wiki and it was created with purpose: allow a community to share ideas on line.
iPhone means iTypo - please forgive On Jun 15, 2011, at 13:14, Casey Ransberger <[email protected]> wrote: > +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 <[email protected]> wrote: > Why not use a wiki to collaborate and organize thoughts and information? > > > > -Carl > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of CHM > de Beer > Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 10:21 AM > To: [email protected] > 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 > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > > > > > -- > Casey Ransberger > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
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