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[Fsedu-developers] New plan in FSA rating and document creation
From: |
Peter Minten |
Subject: |
[Fsedu-developers] New plan in FSA rating and document creation |
Date: |
Sat, 5 Apr 2003 10:26:31 +0200 |
Hi folks,
I've been rereading 'the Hacker Ethic and the spirit of the information age',
the book that orginally inspired me to create the FSA, and have some nice new
plans for the FSA. One of the central ideas in section 'Net-Academy' (FSA is
actually an implementation of the Net-Academy) is that there is no central
lead, just chaotic developers organizing themselves. Instead of study points
there is peer approval of contributions to the work done in the academy. In
the academy hackers learn, teach and work together on improving books and
stuff.
The implication of this idea is that book development is no longer linear but
dynamic, branching into different versions all the time. A version of a book
can be seen as the collection of the patches (revisions) that form it. Given
this model book development can be considered in the same terms as program
development. Thus there will be a stable version endorsed by the biggest part
of the community and development versions.
The technical foundation for that is easy: a set of patches and RDF metadata
about the patches is all you need. Organizational a book can be managed like
software, in projects with a leader and a bunch of developers.
Peer rating of changes and comments of a version of a book can be a quite
good system for determining the skill level of a person.
Greetings,
Peter
- [Fsedu-developers] New plan in FSA rating and document creation,
Peter Minten <=