PMWX meeting-call 2007-09-11

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Conference Call Wed 2007.09.11 7:00am PDT    (1)

• Date: Tuesday, Sep. 11, 2007 E37     (1A)
• Start Time: 10:00am EDT / 7:00am PDT / 14:00 GMT/UTC E38     (1B)
• Expected Call Duration: 1.0 hours E39     (1C)
• Dial-in Number: [note that the dial-in number is different from those used previously] E3A     (1D)
  • (from the US) - +1-605-475-8500 (South Dakota, USA) E3E     (1D1)
  • use Conference ID: "5184691#" E3F     (1D2)
• Direct call from from Skype: +99008275184691 E3B     (1E)
• Attendees: Ken, Viral, Tejas, Jonathan & Peter E3G     (1F)
• Regrets: E3C     (1G)
• Call ended 7:52am PDT / 10:52 EDT E3S     (1H)
• Next call Tue 2007.09.18 7:00am PDT / 10:00am EDT E3T     (1I)

Agenda & Proceedings    (2)

• Peter / Jonathan: we need a bit more time to get the collaborative work environment (CWE) ready E3H     (2A)
  • ran into some problems with software (revision level) compatibility E3I**in the mean time, please continue to use e-mail. We'll migrate the exchanges over to the discussion archives once the (CWE)is up     (2A1)

• Choice of repository for our development codebase E3K     (2B)
  • Viral: how should we respond to WikiMedia Foundation -ref. msg from Viral Gupta of 2007.09.08-9:10 PM EDT E2J     (2B1)
    • Peter: we need to document anyway. E3M     (2B1A)
    • consensus: we will continue to pursue getting started withthe MWF SVN repository E3X     (2B1B)

• Viral & Tejas will do the writeup and run by everyone before sending over to the MWF folks E3Y     (2C)
  • we could include Ken's site, some CIM3 implementations in the course of the writeup, besides telling them what our plans are E3Z     (2C1)
  • googling "purple number" and e.g http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PurpleNumbers page should help     (2C2)

• let's hold off until our CWE is up E41     (2D)
  • everyone should have their "namesake page" on our CWE wiki then for their reference E42     (2D1)

Project naming    (3)

• "Purple MediaWiki (pmwx)" & "Tiki (tiki)" [short form reference of project name in parenthesis] E3L     (3A)
• Project charter (for each of the two projects) E3N     (3B)
• Project requirement/specification (for each of the two     (3C)

• More discussion on the project requirement/specification E3P     (3E)
  • Purple project E3Q     (3E1)
    • Jonathan: implement a purple number extension for MediaWiki; both hierarchical (stateless; hid) and stateful (nid)purple numbering; E43     (3E1A)
    • Peter: also the ability to work side by side (compatible) with the Semantic MediaWiki extension E45     (3E1B)
  • Tag project E3R     (3E2)
    • Ken: idea is implement folksonomy (user generated taxonomy) to introduce more complex semantics with generating additional complexity with tagging; including tagging (capturing the tag & presenting the tag-cloud) and search (categorizing and retrieval). We'll go the "folksonomic" approach, and will stay out of explicit or implied "controlled vocabulary" E44     (3E2A)

TO DO    (4)

• Suggested that Viral and Tejas start reading up on implementing     (4A)
• MediaWiki extensions E46     (4B)
  • ref: "Developers" of the page at:     (4B1)
  • http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki .. especially:     (4B2)
  • http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Extensions E47     (4B3)
• Viral and Tejas to do a short writeup after the above reading, and present it at the next meeting; E48     (4C)
  • particularly on resources and constraints, and anything related to design decisions that we may have to discuss     (4C1)