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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





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