[uf-discuss] Fwd: Twitter Is Now Even More Geeky

2007-05-10 Thread Ernest Prabhakar
How 'bout that! But what does that mean? Begin forwarded message: And for the really geeky, we have a surprise: Twitter now fully supports microformats. Now that is pretty geektastic. Happy Twittering! -Biz Stone and the Twitter Team http://twitter.com/biz __

Re: [uf-discuss] Fwd: Twitter Is Now Even More Geeky

2007-05-14 Thread Ernest Prabhakar
On May 13, 2007, at 8:16 PM, Kevin Marks wrote: On May 13, 2007, at 7:49 PM, Chris Messina wrote: XFN. All of the side bars use [rel=contact]. -ryan So yeah, it's hAtom + hCard + XFN. Pretty good, especially since we haven't seen too much hAtom pickup outside of a few WordPress blogs. Also

Re: [uf-discuss] rel-edit

2007-05-25 Thread Ernest Prabhakar
Hi Evan, I like it! This would also be useful for linking to the editable version of data for a REST Service Description. -enp On May 25, 2007, at 6:06 PM, Evan Prodromou wrote: Hi, everybody. ** Context ** So, on the tail of RecentChangesCamp Montreal (http://www.rocococamp.info/), there

Re: [uf-discuss] hRelease

2007-06-29 Thread Ernest Prabhakar
Guillaume, On Jun 28, 2007, at 5:53 PM, Guillaume Lebleu wrote: Tantek Çelik wrote: Actually, this is precisely one of the reasons that a bunch of us have decided to push the POSH name/moniker. POSH is indeed a very elegantly coined and catchy acronym, but the only problem is that it is mor

Re: [uf-discuss] Voluntary Public Domain declarations now enabled on the wiki

2007-07-18 Thread Ernest Prabhakar
Hi Andy, On Jul 18, 2007, at 1:17 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote: At the moment this experiment does not (yet) supercede the boilerplate at Template:MicroFormatCopyrightStatement2004, which may be updated for some pages when and if all of their contributors choose to adopt this convention.

Re: [uf-discuss] Re: Voluntary Public Domain declarations now enabled on the wiki

2007-07-20 Thread Ernest Prabhakar
Hi Andy, On Jul 20, 2007, at 4:40 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: Please consider adding "retroactively" or "all past, present and future contributions" to the text. I think any attempt to change the terms of a statement whereby people have released some of their rights, after they have done so,

Re: [uf-discuss] Voluntary Public Domain declarations now enabled onthe wiki

2007-07-31 Thread Ernest Prabhakar
[Apologies if this is off-topic, but I'm not sure where/how else to discuss this] Hi Joe, On Jul 31, 2007, at 9:54 PM, Joe Andrieu wrote: I expect that many of the leadership find this train of thought distasteful. It is, as it stinks of unproductive legal confrontations. But such are a pa

Re: [uf-discuss] XOXO Special Properties

2007-08-02 Thread Ernest Prabhakar
Hi Dmitri, On Aug 2, 2007, at 1:08 PM, Dimitri Glazkov wrote: My intent is to use XOXO for configuration (remember plists discussion from a while back?) and I would like to make sure I don't write code that does something unacceptable or illogical. Since there is not much heard anymore about th

Re: [uf-discuss] Re: Getting legal help (was: inappropriate behaviour)

2007-08-02 Thread Ernest Prabhakar
Hi Manu, On Aug 2, 2007, at 7:10 PM, Manu Sporny wrote: The reasoning for not discussing legal matters on the list is not clear. It is ironic that in an open community, such as this, that we have any taboo topics... but here we are. I an not a lawyer, but my understanding is that any public

[uf-discuss] Govermance: RE inappropriate behaviour

2007-08-03 Thread Ernest Prabhakar
Hi Ben, On Aug 2, 2007, at 9:05 PM, Ben Buchanan wrote: The informal approach worked well when the community was new and smaller, but now that it's ramping up it doesn't seem to be coping. I'm not claiming there's an easy answer, but we should start by accepting there's a problem. I strongly e

Re: [uf-discuss] Housekeeping: Sorting our exploratory discussions wheat from chaff

2007-08-27 Thread Ernest Prabhakar
Cool idea -- thanks, Andy! On Aug 26, 2007, at 11:04 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote: The number of exploratory discussions on the wiki's main page had grown to the point where it was hard to see what was current, what was abandoned or moribund, or simply to see what was there at all, Accordingly,

[uf-discuss] Third option?: Need for plain-language intros for each microformat

2007-09-07 Thread Ernest Prabhakar
Hi all, On Sep 7, 2007, at 7:00 AM, Eric A. Meyer wrote: or 2) leave the specs where they are and create new -intro pages. I've seen [...] no one object to #2. Then you haven't been paying full attention. For those of us who indeed haven't been paying full attention to this particular

Suspension_Policy Re: [uf-discuss] [admin] Notice of community ban

2007-10-19 Thread Ernest Prabhakar
Hi Tantek, On Oct 18, 2007, at 9:15 PM, Tantek Çelik wrote: I will personally commit to (as I think the other admins will, though I am not speaking for them) improving the documentation of who the admins are, and the minimal processes that the admins follow, because, one of our objectives is

Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats for Write APIs

2008-02-18 Thread Ernest Prabhakar
Hi Gareth, On Feb 18, 2008, at 3:51 PM, gareth rushgrove wrote: The idea of using Microformats as a replacement for a seperate API layer has been mooted for a while*. But in general this has been a discussion about Read APIs (ie. asking for data) as apposed to Write APIs (ie. adding data). I'm

Re: [uf-discuss] Reflections on community time, rules, guidelines, and banning Andy

2008-03-05 Thread Ernest Prabhakar
me to explain and document your actions clearly. I'm sure this was a difficult decision, but I appreciate the hard work all of the admins have put in to do this as fairly as possible. Sincerely, Ernest Prabhakar ___ microformats-discuss ma

Re: [uf-discuss] Re: Unjust banning of Andy Mabbett

2008-03-09 Thread Ernest Prabhakar
Hi all, On Mar 8, 2008, at 2:22 PM, Toby A Inkster wrote: Manu Sporny wrote: I'd like to see the ban on Andy reduced to a month or lifted completely. I shall be concise, because Manu has already gone into plenty of details, but... +1 I don't know about "Unjust" --- I sympathize with th

[uf-discuss] Governance Re: Unjust banning of Andy Mabbett

2008-03-11 Thread Ernest Prabhakar
Hi Manu, On Mar 11, 2008, at 9:37 AM, Manu Sporny wrote: To date, 10 people have voiced concern about the length of Andy's ban and the methods used to ban him. That is a clear indicator that there is a disconnect between the admins and the community. I encourage you (and everyone) to add

[uf-discuss] Who cares? Re: Unjust banning of Andy Mabbett

2008-03-17 Thread Ernest Prabhakar
Hi John et al, On Mar 17, 2008, at 3:27 PM, John Allsopp wrote: But I'd suggest that lack of piping up on this form is not entirely evidence that people don't care. If people *do* care, I encourage them to sign the "petition" on governance-issues, as you have: http://microformats.org/wik