The Minciu
Sodas laboratory invites you to participate in the Infrared
Data Association's (IrDA)
Special Interest Group for Flow of Experiences
Contact convener Andrius
Kulikauskas at ms@ms.lt for additional information about the Flow
of Experiences Special Interest Group and the Minciu
Sodas laboratory's strategy for developing the standard. He
is editor of this page.
Last updated: February 11, 2000.
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IrDA will meet:
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July 17-20 in the San Diego
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October in Japan
Andrius Kulikauskas of the Minciu Sodas laboratory is conducting an investigation
Linking
Locally is Thinking Globally to develop a specification for a preliminary
standard. His investigation is designed to help build relationships
between makers and users of software for organizing notes. He will
write up a "direction" proposal based on these results, and will be asking
for help and sharing results through the experiences@irda.org reflector.
He especially requests
your help to collect use cases where the import and export of aggregates
of notes and other kinds of information is or would be useful. Write
to him at ms@ms.lt
Lawrence Faulkner alerted us to Valentine
Pocketgrams.
Latest Steps
Our first IrFLOW meeting was January 11th, 1:00pm-2:00pm, near the San
Francisco International Airport, as part of the IrDA quarterly meeting.
Our agenda was:
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An illustration of the dilemma: The Brain and MindManager. Steve Raiff.
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Timeline of Benefits and Implementation. Andrius Kulikauskas.
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Analysis of How Our Interests are Affected. Steve Raiff.
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Steps to take. Andrius Kulikauskas.
Steve Raiff showed The Brain and the MindManager, so that we would all
be aware of some products and to make the import/export issue more concrete.
Our standard will make sure that software for organizing notes can be used
for serious projects without risk of the notes getting trapped when products
are discontinued.
Andrius Kulikauskas then discussed the benefits and implications of
the standard, distinguishing between:
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a preliminary standard which would be faithful to the various kinds
of sequences, trees and webs used by existing software and standards;
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a final standard which would express these with respect to the definitions
of sequences, trees and webs that are most natural for humans.
Andrius discussed these benefits with respect to a timeline
- about three months to develop the preliminary standard, and twelve months
to develop the final standard.
Steve discussed the implications for the industry. Then
we all agreed on the following "next steps":
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to focus on the preliminary standard, and propose a "direction" for the
April meeting, so that we could have a "draft" and "final" as early as
the July meeting.
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to use the IrDA reflector experiences@irda.org not merely for updates,
but as the principle forum for developing the standard.
We are structuring our meetings of IrFLOW so as to:
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Invite those who would like to stay posted. Inform of work underway, and
get feedback.
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Identify those interested in participating actively. Agree on our objective.
Previous Steps
A position paper with general ideas on what the standard should look like
is Developing Import/Export
Standards for Aggregates of Notes by Andrius
Kulikauskas.
Our Mandate
Andrius Kulikauskas, Director of the Minciu Sodas laboratory, is the Convener
for IrDA's Special Interest Group for Flow of Experiences. The charter
of the Flow of Experiences SIG is to create an infrastructure to accumulate,
heighten, reflect on and respond to experiences. A thoughtful format
may expand the flow of ideas and experiences across Infrared connections
in the way that HTML has expanded the movement of documents across the
Internet.
The Special Interest Group for Flow of Experiences has two goals:
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Develop a conceptual standard for the import and export of sequences, hierarchies,
and networks of information.
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Develop a strategic picture for usage.
Our tagline is You've got me thinking.
Information we have shared with the press (the Linux
Journal) includes Irdakiss
Me!
You can participate directly by joining IrDA.
Join us!
Is your company a member of IrDA? Then you can join our discussion
group experiences@irda.org by sending an email (a command) with
text subscribe experiences to Majordomo@irda.org For
information on joining IrDA, call or write Rebecca Murray, rebecca@irda.org,
(925) 944-2932.
If you are an individual and would like to participate, consider joining
the Minciu Sodas laboratory. The Minciu Sodas laboratory
is devoted to caring about thinking, and organizes public research as a
means of building relationships while working towards common objectives.
Minciu Sodas is a member of IrDA, and members of the laboratory are able
to participate in IrDA. Minciu Sodas has a working group Flow of
Experiences, and you are welcome to view the corresponding discussion
group whetherwhat@egroups.com Members of Minciu Sodas who
would like to join this working group, please write director Andrius Kulikauskas
at ms@ms.lt