Re: Virtual Commons!!!!! (was Re: What is Jakarta Commons?)

Hell ya. We can start this right away. Great idea, Geir.

"Now why didn't I think of that?" :-)

Cheers,
-g

p.s. note that Jakarta acting as a Java-based codebase federation is a
separate matter; the J PMC can deal with that...

On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 09:12:34PM -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote:
> Why don't the various commons groups in the ASF just have the AC PMC 
> add things on the A-C site and 'federate' that way?  The respective 
> PMCs would still do what they do - oversee the projects - and the AC 
> PMC can maintain the website.
> 
> geir
> 
> 
> On Dec 23, 2003, at 4:44 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote:
> 
> > Mark R. Diggory wrote:
> >
> >> I personally think that the idea of "Commons" should become more
> >> "Virtual" and "Evolutionary" in nature.
> >
> >> if theres ever the case that "xml commons" and "jakarta commons"
> >> could become a shared community, it would produce the following
> >> benefits
> >
> > Mark, what you are saying is basically supporting the notion of 
> > decoupling
> > web presence from project oversight, and supporting the idea of 
> > federation
> > instead of containment.
> >
> > A PMC oversees the code, resources, community for a project.  There is
> > nothing that prevents them from federating to produce portals as you
> > describe.  I have suggested it recently as one good approach.
> >
> > Without going into details right now comparing various plans, let me 
> > note
> > that Federation is one approach being discussed on Jakarta General as 
> > part
> > of a larger reorganization discussion.
> >
> > 	--- Noel
> >
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