Re : Number of things

[Dave Durant]

Hi James,

> There's the IRC room, this mailing list, and http://rewiredstate.org
> /projects - all available on the website. I think that covers all of your
> points below, and I think any more is just unnecessary, no?

Well, I would potentially argue that the vast majority of people under
25 (hackers or not) don't know what IRC is but that's another matter.

The project list is a good start but similar lists also exist at
MySociety, DirectGov and other places.

What I would love to see is a single well recognised site where such
community orientated work is based - built up around a significant
piece of collaboration infrastructure.

I've seen impressive examples of both IBM Jazz and CollabNet TeamForge
and would not be surprised if either company would not be willing to
donate copies of the software for a cause like this (for suitable PR
rights obviously).

I'm interested in other people's opinions of whether a list of
projects on multiple sites with separate source controls and no easy
mechanism for seeing the plans or status updates is fair enough for
where we are at currently or whether it would be worth trying to push
for some kind of more significant online development environment.

Nb - even if people on this list think it's a good idea I would
suggest it's a no-go unless it could also be sold to the MySociety
folks.

David Durant