Re: [Ldsoss] Survey Results
My take on the wiki and mailing list responses is not that they are difficult to do, but that many of us would see an officially-sanctioned sourceforge-like area as a stamp of approval on what might otherwise be construed as an ark-steadying activity. Indeed, I know of no other forum than the LDS-OSS list where the propriety of online collaboration on church-related projects is endlessly debated as it is here. I worry that many potentially beneficial ideas and faithful efforts are floundering because there is too much concern over whether some initiative or other will meet with the approval of Church leadership. Having a friendly open forum for collaboration that is sponsored by the Church would do a great deal to ease misgivings about dedicating one's time to a church-related open source project. In summary, I think it may not necessarily be that people are worried about the difficulty of setting up a wiki or a mailing list, but whether or not such a list would be accepted as supportive of the church's mission or antagonistic to it. Carl On 7/3/06, pat eyler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: APIs make sense to sit up at the top, but Wikis and to a lesser degree newsletters and source code repositories are easy to set up and host, but a conference is something that would be hard to put together, advertise, and pull of without some kind of sponsorship. ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
RE: [Ldsoss] Survey Results
On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Dallan Quass wrote: Overall it's a good workshop. A few people come in from out of town, but I estimate that 80-90% of the attendees this year came from BYU, the Church, or Ancestry. I think it would be _much_ better if there were an effort driving people to work together on shared efforts. I've only attended a few of the workshops, but I'm not aware of a single presentation that has had a broad impact outside the workshop - that has made the jump from workshop presentation to website/software feature available to the general public (except of course presentations from organizations about what they're already doing). I've attended the workshop for the last couple of years and for the geek that's interested in genealogy work, im my opinion, it's the event of the year. I look forward to it eagerly each year. But I'll agree with Dallan, in that I'd like to see the scope broadened a bit. Most of the presenters seem to come from the Church or MyFamily.com (that's not a bad thing, there's plenty of cool stuff happening in those organizations, but I'd like to see things opened up a bit) As I understand it the original purpose of the workshop was to provide a forum for BYU students doing research in Family History technologies to present their research. I think that's a good goal to continue with, but again, it would be nice to see the workshop expanded a bit (perhaps to two days?) Perhaps we in the community just need to organize an un-conference the day before. Gather together a bunch of geeks interested in genealogy for a bunch of hours with free wireless and see what comes out of it. Just rambling now... -- Dan ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
RE: [Ldsoss] Survey Results
I agree with Dan. One of the best things that could happen at the Family History Workshop or a Church-sponsored open-source conference would be to set time aside for birds-of-a-feather sessions, where people interested in the same area could get to know each other, share ideas, make plans to work together, etc. -dallan I've attended the workshop for the last couple of years and for the geek that's interested in genealogy work, im my opinion, it's the event of the year. I look forward to it eagerly each year. But I'll agree with Dallan, in that I'd like to see the scope broadened a bit. Most of the presenters seem to come from the Church or MyFamily.com (that's not a bad thing, there's plenty of cool stuff happening in those organizations, but I'd like to see things opened up a bit) As I understand it the original purpose of the workshop was to provide a forum for BYU students doing research in Family History technologies to present their research. I think that's a good goal to continue with, but again, it would be nice to see the workshop expanded a bit (perhaps to two days?) Perhaps we in the community just need to organize an un-conference the day before. Gather together a bunch of geeks interested in genealogy for a bunch of hours with free wireless and see what comes out of it. Just rambling now... -- Dan ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
