DRAFT REPORT on Standards and Architectures

05-June-2005

[ Open-Standards , SIGOSSEE Project ]
Mike Malloch has written a preliminary draft document for the Standards and Architectures Working Group report. A pdf version is available here. See the research/standards area of the site for further developments.

Mike Malloch has just written a preliminary draft for the report of the Standards and Architectures Working Group. It is available a a pdf document attached to this weblog entry: standards and architectures draft report

The remit of the Standards & Architectures working group is to investigate, debate, clarify and report on the ways in which emerging issues in software architectures and interoperability standards can impact the development, uptake and success of open source software for education in europe. Our scope is a bit more complicated: since all three of these areas can have important interactions with any of the others, the Standards & Architectures Working Group will investigate and report on issues which involve or impact on these interactions among the areas.

We will attempt to make recommendations in our final report: ways to improve upon and/or leverage the relationships among these three communities and interests.

Status of the current draft

This is a very preliminary draft. Due to the recent prolonged illness of the author, progress on the tasks for the working group have been seriously delayed. We expect to make up for this delay over the summer of 2005.

This report has an up-to-the-minute representation on the web at www.ossite.org/research/standards . We plan to use the WG’s collaborative web space to conduct an extensive process of online writing, debate and resource aggregation involving interested experts. To follow the debate, investigation and writing as it progresses week by week, please go to the site or subscribe to the RSS news feeds available there.

The current written version is restricted in purpose to a rough scoping of the field, and a description of the issues which the final written report will try to address.

An HTML version of the draft report is available for reading online in the Working Group's area of the site.


Mike Malloch; 05-June-2005 10:23:58 forum (0)

New content in research/standards: Mike's presentation, Q+A, resources, team-task...

07-June-2005

[ OSSITE Improvements , SIGOSSEE Project/Meetings ]
Over the past few days I have updated the content in the research/standards area of the site. I have also placed the content and Q+A summary from yesterday's talk in the main working-group weblog there.

Over the past few days I have updated the content in the research/standards area of the site. More is still to come, but a basic structure is now there for supporting further postings.

Please note that all members of the site can post and reply to entries in the new shared weblogs in the standards area.

In particular, note that I have placed downloadable versions of yesterday's presentation there, as well as a summary of the question session from after the talk:

  • Downloadable version of Mike's talk :: Printable and viewable versions of the talk Mike Malloch gave yesterday on Standards and Architectures are available here. [ Blog entry in "Working Ideas"]
  • Summary of questions and discussion from Mike's presentation :: This is a quick and dirty attempt to summarise the questions & discussion from today's remote presentation on the standards and architectures working group. [ Blog entry in "Working Ideas"]

This area contains resources and activities for the Working Group on standards and architectures. Our remit is to thoroughly investigate the issue of how open-source development efforts can collaboratively create sound and innovative architectures, supporting and leveraging new and existing interoperability standards.

Written Report - Drafts & Versions
This area contains downloadable and online versions of the written report drafts. The latest draft is a preliminary document by Mike Malloch on June 3, 2005

History: open software in education
Open source, standards and architectures in education. Current question: would OpenDoc be available if it was open source?
5 entries; 1 authors; 6 external links; 2 comments/discussions;
Last Entry: 06-Jun-2005 08:19 by Mike Malloch; OpenDoc - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ;
Last Discussion: 06-Jun-2005 10:42 by Mike Malloch; What do you think? Would Open Source have saved OpenDoc?

Resources: standards and architectures
Links and resources on open source, standards and architecures
20 entries; 1 authors; 19 external links; 0 comments/discussions;
Last Entry: 06-Jun-2005 12:03 by Mike Malloch; XML-RPC Home Page ;
Last Discussion:

Working Ideas
Standards & Architectures Working Group - general discussions
2 entries; 1 authors; 0 external links; 0 comments/discussions;
Last Entry: 07-Jun-2005 09:13 by Mike Malloch; Downloadable version of Mike's talk ;
Last Discussion:


Mike Malloch; 07-June-2005 08:53:36 forum (0)