Re: Wiki madness

Mitchell Baker <Mitchell-6zGkXsw2EZWGJGYlWa3Ukdi2O/[email protected]> Wed, 15 Jan 2003 09:22:16 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.org.osaf.process
Organization OSAFoundation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thanks, Tom, you've expressed what we are trying to do.  Yes, we know we 
don't have a perfect tool.    But even so, it has already given OSAF 
staff a framework in which to get information out of our heads and on 
paper, and seek involvement from those who aren't in the building.   And 
we hope that it allows a degree of collobative development that would be 
harder without any such tool.  We're going to work with this for a while.

Mitchell

[email protected] wrote:

>
> On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 07:25 AM, Pito Salas wrote:
>
>>
>> My experience with Wikis is that they are fairly terrible as a 
>> collaborative
>> tool, for the following reasons:
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>>
>> <snip>
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> Slagging the wiki at this point seems counterproductive.  I'm just 
> happy to have more information available.
>
> OSAF put themselves in a tricky position.  Announcing this project has 
> put them under a big microscope in the community, and I think picking 
> on every little detail at this point will just make them weary and 
> wary of engaging the community.
>
> The wiki is adequate.  Save your energy for the Chandler.
>
> --Tom
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