Moving the MC IDE forward

[Richard Gaskin]

With the announcement yesterday, as Scott suggested the next step for the
evolution of MetaCard's IDE is to form a discussion list to focus on IDE
development.  There's a lot to discuss so we should get that going soon.

I'm a big fan of Yahoo Groups, and one of the readers here suggested turning
the existing group at <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/metacard/> into the
MetaCard IDE group.

I haven't been in contact with that moderator, so I don't know how he might
feel about changing the focus of the group from general MC discussion to IDE
development and management.  We should also consider the existing
subscribers, who joined with the intention of participating in general
discussion and who may be put off or even bored by the more focused working
group.

Another factor is that the group cited above has its messages hidden from
non-subscribers, but I feel a group like the one being considered benefits
from allowing messages to be read publicly.  After all, open source is about
being open.  This can be changed by the moderator of course, but there may
be reasons he set it up like that which should be taken into account before
requesting change.

Things we need to decide:

- Is Yahoo Groups acceptable as a groupware solution for this project?
  With its discussion list, file repository, calendar, and links it
  gets my vote, but there may be things I'm overlooking.

- If so, is it simpler to alter the existing group or create a new one?

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