standards are great, but standardisation is a really bad idea
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A presentation for QCon London 2009 http://lanyrd.com/2009/qconlondon/sfmpt/TRANSCRIPT
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Meritocracyor
Group Think?
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Block Voting
http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/03/concentration-at-the-odf-tc.html
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STV
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Specifications
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normative, non-normative
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Junk DNA
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Agile
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Itch Driven
Development
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Freedom to Fork
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Standeace
• Open Source Implementations
• Test Suites
• Wiki Driven Documentation
• Small, Lightweight Specifications
• Open Licensing *
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Standards are Agreements
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Standards are Communication
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Design by Committee
Esperanto
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Observe, Edit, Don't Dictate
Build a Community
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