RE: [tgf] Proposed structure and development of TC deliverables;proposed working meeting

Peter

 

I 
agree with John: very happy with this approach.

 

I 
do think at some stage we will want to produce some sort of single document 
which pulls all of this together, but I see three major advantages to your 
"small pieces / loosely joined" approach:

 

- 
it is practical in terms of managing the work

- 
it helps us in terms of a phased release of all this 

- 
it also lends itself to a web-based presentation of the material and resources 
that will eventually get built up. 

 

The timetable and order of prioritities also looks 
right.  The one caveat I'd make is that, in your first "rough decant", it 
would be well worth covering parts 5-8 as well as the higher priority 1-4.  
That will help us in finalising decisions about how much of the material 
gets elevated up to the standards track.

 

I 
cannot make a meeting at any time on Friday 4th - I'll be on a plane to 
Australia.  I would very much like to be part of the call though, so is it 
possible to look into the following week?

 

Chris 
Parker

Managing 
Partner, CS Transform Ltd, 
+44 
7951 754 060

 

From: John Borras 
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Sent: 27 January 2011 
08:54
To: ; 'TGF TC List '
Subject: RE: 
[tgf] Proposed structure and development of TC deliverables; proposed working 
meeting

Thanks you Peter, this is 
extremely helpful.  I concur with all aspects of your proposals and can see 
that following this approach we would stand an excellent chance of meeting my 
wish of a March deliverable.

 

To meet these deadlines we will 
need the outputs from Andy/Colin/Oliver/Nig on their various areas of 
responsibility for inclusion in the drafting process, so I hope they will be 
able to deliver to you in time.

 

John

 

From: Peter F Brown 
[mailto:] 
Sent: 27 January 2011 
03:34
To: TGF TC List 
Subject: [tgf] Proposed structure and 
development of TC deliverables; proposed working 
meeting

 

Hi:

My apologies again for missing this Monday’s 
meeting – I’ve since caught up with John and am following the different 
submissions to the list.

 

As promised, attached is a small note 
outlining a proposed structure of the deliverables. I hope that this will 
address some of the concerns and questions about how we physically structure 
what we want to produce in what sort of deliverable, in conformance with our 
Charter and the overview of deliverables in my last slide deck. Please let me 
have some feedback and any questions in the next couple of days on 
this.

 

Of note in particular is the proposal to 
have “several pieces loosely joined” to start with, so that we can progress 
several areas in parallel, allowing a certain autonomy of activity and without 
making editorial tracking a nightmare – nothing stops us ‘stitching them back 
together’ before adopting any formal position or 
deliverable.

 

If this note is acceptable, I propose that 
we proceed as follows:

-          
I will do a first rough ‘decant’ 
of current materials and contributions into the proposed ‘containers’, and send 
the results to the list;

-          
Individual TC members can 
volunteer to take ownership of a specific deliverable (or part thereof) and 
continue work on them;

-          
I suggest that we have a 
working/drafting session at the end of next week to see how far we have 
progressed;

-          
I would then do a full editorial 
write up of the whole, checking for consistency and coherence through the 
whole;

-          
We have a first ‘cut’ of the 
four main parts ready for discussion at the next TC meeting on 17th 
Feb

The objective by this stage is to have 
something that is complete (as in ‘all the necessary bits are there’) but not 
necessarily completed (as in finished).

 

For a meeting next week, I would need it to 
be Friday 4th but am very flexible regarding the timing during the 
day. Please indicate in the following Doodle poll your availability and time 
preferences: http://doodle.com/p56xuz93r9nthnb9

 

I will reply separately regarding the issue 
of diagrams and models.

 

Cheers,

Peter

 

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