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OHS Project , the unfinished revolution previous meeting, next meeting. 1 Agenda: 2
Armstrong, Eric - TreeLight
Minutes: 4 Minutes drafted by Su-Ling, technical notes contributed
by Howard.
(Pardon the grammar, etc. Had a 16-hour day at the WITI conference and too exhausted to beautify the text, but want to get this to the list asap. \ Su-Ling) 4A1 1) Action items decided: 4B
We had a guest from Switzerland: Gil Regev from the Swiss Federal Institute in Lucerne, which has been part of the Bootstrap Alliance for 3+ years. He works on component-oriented software engineering, and is doing a PhD on collaborative learning. He will demo Knoware - a concept map editor supporting collaboration. 4C1 Lee suggests looking at The Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy Guide's site (www.h2g2.com). He says it's a DKR not an OHS, yet another open directory project, a huge unfocussed mindlessly open DKR. A good example of a DKR that's not an OHS. 4C2 Doug will do an internal lecture for Source Forge on Friday, 6/30. 4C3 3) WIKI discussion: 4D Lee decided to go with WIKI on the Bootstrap site. URL in his post on eGroups. It can be restricted so there's a users list. It's on a separate port, can't be found unless person belongs to our list on eGroups. User can put up pure text; WIKI will format it using html. Anybody can edit these Webpages. It's not a model for what we want to do, simply a means to putting everything together, organize thoughts and ideas, and keep a record of that. It's just a tool for us to use right now, a convenience. It has an infinite undo facility. Lee is the manager of the site. A login mechanism can be set up. 4D1 Drawback is that WIKI has no time stamp. So we must work on basis of social contract, users must abide by ground rules. Eg. all users set up a homepage and use that as the mechanism. Each page be owned by somebody, responsible for the actual text there, everyone else can add comments but not change original text. Can copy an original to a version, will put suffix, and is linked to original. WIKI is anarchical, any order is user enforced. Everyone who wants to participate must look at the ground rules, suggest changes is so inclined. Eugene encourages all to visit WIKI and look at the ground rules. (http://bootstrap.org:8080/OHS/GroundRules). 4D2 Discussion of the format for the Glossary (already on WIKI), ground rules and procedures for editing it. Whoever signs the glossary should be responsible. Bill Bearden is going through it right now. Break each item up into a separate page. Number of page is unique in entire Zwiki. Every page has it's own page ID. Everything is in one directory of pages. Have name anchor in OHS, so can refer to glossary: so can do Glossary#OHS to take user there. 4D3 Rod asks many questions. Lee, Eugene and Eric emphasize that it's just a tool for us to experiment with right now. It's an online collaborative tool and we should collaborate online. WIKI can serve as prototype for any kind of methodology, we can experiment with use cases. Nice to expose anchors. Use purple numbers. CSS style sheet exists. Html gives a tweak, but xml is better. Can define visualization style. Infinitely cross-linkable. Rod proposes that Eric should be the only one who makes changes to the requirements. 4D4 4) Joe showed the photos he took of Doug doing the Augment demo last week and explains his idea on how we should do the video demo. He says we need to do a planned production of it. (see Action items) He proposes the tutor files, user manuals, and that the chordian is made USB. 4E 5) John suggests we get hold of the Augment manuals / tutorial documents and study them, mine them for our requirements. 4F 6) Eugene suggests an approach to our meetings: announcements at the beginning, and for the purpose of focus, items not directly related to OHS development should be taken offline. All in agreement. 4G 7) Eric's talk on Java One postponed for next week. 4H 8) Eugene reports that Mozilla enthused about OHS project, one of their main engineers spent last few weeks reading Doug's papers on his own time. Collaboration potential is very good . A Gnutella presentation can be scheduled for one of our meetings. 4I 9) Eugene raises the issue of the dichotomy between the online and offline - there is a larger community that is interested. We need to be inclusive as much as possible. Minutes are important to keep everyone in sync. Misconception that this is a Stanford project and that no commitment to Open Source. We don't have a good tool for people in remote locations to participate. They should be able to participate in creating the agenda. 4J Gil points out that people like him in remote locations perceive these meetings to be closed. (We agree we need to confirm with Doug the openess of these meetings - see Action items) Gil points out there's also the problem of time differences, but that it should be possible for people not local to contribute to the agenda and participate in some meaningful way. 4J1 Eugene mentions the possibility of audio conferencing. (NB. Currently it is possible to teleconference in) Eugene: We should make clear to all list subscribers that they're welcome to stop by when in area. Most Open Source projects don't happen face-to-face. Most work is done online. So this issue is important in future, when we have code base, requirements, etc. Once we reach the point of design implementation we will shift to being online. 4J2 Current way the agenda is set: Eugene (meeting facilitator appointed by Doug) solicits agenda items, this is posted on his Website, http://www.eekim.com/ohs/agendas/. Eugene talks to Doug the night before and asks him what he wants discussed in the meeting. Rod and John request Eugene post a reminder calling for agenda items and including the URL every week. Eugene agrees. 4J3 10) Eugene talks about our Bootstrapping strategy - doing bottom up things while top down stuff is being discussed. Develop basic XML schemes for what we're doing, can generate html automatically and build in the features Doug wants. Helps us focus, refine out thoughts about building DKR. Minutes, agendas, glossary, use cases/requirements give us content that can be sucked into the system. Develop basic XML schemas for current docs. Find existing DTDs, Howard has found a Minutes DTD. Once we commit to a license will put any of our own created schema into Open Source under the group license. Xpointer, Xlink, Xinclude---link of Joe's wiki glossary---everyone should study it for xml knowledge. Neil Bradley, The XML Companion, 2nd Edition. Martin Fowler, UML Distilled, 2nd edition. John points out John Bosack would be a good person to point us in the right direction. 4K 11) Requirements and Use Cases: 4L Eugene: Most of the group has done UML, some have done requirement ellicitation. Purpose of Use Cases is to describe from very high level black box point of view. Eric: We should keep a good separation between design tangents and goals. Eugene mentions Rationale methodology, we do not Rational Corporation champions the cyclic development model follow Waterfall model of development. UML. Cyclic development model: feedback. Gil points out the different ways of doing Use Cases, particularly "Essential Use Cases" - Constantine, Essential Modeling. What is the user's goal, design a different system with that in mind.. There are development methodologies such as Catellisis (sp?). Do mindmap and concept map of Mind map, i.e. concept map domain, get to shared understanding, share with users, then use case diagrams. Exist in Eric's links. 4L1 Eugene goes over one a Use Case, says not to get down in methodology and formal stuff so just keep that at the back of the mind rather than have it XMI is a DTD for UML upfront. Lee: XMI dtd for UML available at Argo. Eugene: People can contribute use cases for the DKR. Rely on intuitive idea of knowledge. 4L2 12) Gil demos Knoware: 4M A collaborative concept mapping tool of server and client - Java 1.1. Currently working on the version that requires 1.2. Server is not open source development right now but there is a project underway to make it open source. SQL server db, firewalls. Goal of this is to get shared meanings. Most other mind mapping/concept mapping tools are desktop tools and not real collaboration. Idea is that it is an informal modeling tool. There are 2 public spaces (will send URL to the list), however these are not very structured. Putting Doug's docs that are on the Bootstrap site onto this system will take Gil only a ½ hour. A cool tool, check it out. 4M1
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