[okfn-discuss] Open Service Definition (revisited)

[Rufus Pollock]

Luis Villa wrote:
> On 7/30/07, Francis Irving <francis at flourish.org> wrote:
>> Rufus - perhaps when Luis has got a bit further and clarified the
>> language and options, we should have a meeting in Cambridge to work
>> out what, if anything, OKFN needs to do?
> 
> My sense is that sometime in the next 6-12 months someone (perhaps
> OKFN, perhaps someone else) will have to convene an (private(?),
> invite-only(?)) summit of the key players* to hammer something out,
> much as OSI was hammered out early on, but hopefully with less
> crossfire.
> 
> Luis
> 
> * both on the policy side (OKFN, CC, etc.) and on the implementation
> side (anyone implementing open-ish services- wikipedia, Red Hat,
> Joyent(?) etc.)

On the idea of meeting up I think the first thing would be to put 
together an OSD draft and then put that out there and solicit comments 
as heavily as possible.

I also think it would be great for people to have local meetings -- as 
Francis suggested we should do one here in Cambridge (UK). Whether we 
could find the resources to bring people together from all over the 
world is a bigger question -- perhaps it would make sense to organize 
special sessions at other events (we could certainly have one at next 
year's OKCON).

Regards,

Rufus