André Luís wrote: > http://bioformats.org/ > > Why is this being developed outside of this community?
Possibly because they don't quite understand how the Microformats Process works. I know our first impression was that we didn't need to perform any sort of centralized development through the Microformats community. We believed that Microformats could be developed by anybody on the web and there was no "stamp of approval" necessary to call what you were doing a "Microformat". At first blush, it wasn't clear that there was a process behind what this community does... > Has anyone heard of this before and/or have contacted the > founders of this project? I've notified them of this thread. > Bottom line is.. should we care about this? Yes, we should. They have demonstrated buy-in to the semantic web at some level, interest in Microformats, the ability to do some work and publish in a way that is open, and they're backed by an institute - which means that probably have more time and interest than most to work on this stuff. > Try to invite them to join the community and discuss the pros > and cons of their proposals? Or just leave them be? It would be a mistake to not invite them to join and let them decide if this community is the best avenue forward. We shouldn't assume what the interests of this community are - this mailing list has over 1,000 readers and all you really need is 2-3 highly motivated individuals to push some of these initiatives forward. -- manu -- Manu Sporny President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: Bitmunk 3.1 Website Launch http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2009/01/16/bitmunk-3-1-website-launch _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss