Re: [Social-discuss] Specification Meetup

[Ted Smith]

On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 00:00 -0400, Steven DuBois wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 20:03 -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > We're planning on having a meet-up of developers interested in working on
> > the specification for GNU Social this Wednesday at 6PM at the FSF. If
> > you're in the area, please try to plan on attending; the more work we can
> > complete creating a clear design for the project, the sooner we can all
> > start hacking.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > --sean corbett
> > 
> 
> We created a sort of "to do list" of short term goals we are hoping to
> achieve.
> 
> http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/Group:GNU_Social/2010-04-21
> 

Is this all the record that exists of this meeting? If so, in the
future, in-person meetups should be much more documented and published
so as to not create an elite group of developers who can get together
and decide things outside of the broader GNU Social community. I have a
hard time believing that this is all that came out of it.

Additionally, I think it's probably a waste of time to try to implement
things like an "about me" page before we have any concept of what the
GNU Social protocol will be. The first priority of the GNU Social
project should be the creation of a clearly defined and specified
high-level protocol for communication between nodes. It should be
specific enough to ensure interoperability but general enough to ensure
that it can be implemented in a variety of ways, and is truly a general
protocol and not something tied into current technologies, trends, or
implementation systems.

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