Re: [apps-discuss] font/*

Dave CROCKER <dhc@dcrocker.net> Thu, 10 November 2011 02:31 UTC

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On 11/10/2011 5:00 AM, Eric Burger wrote:
> Sounds like a call for a BOF.


For a topic like this, I believe a BOF makes sense only for either or both of:

    1.  Interactive tutorial, to create a community of folk who share a common 
set of information and are going to proceed doing some work on the topic. 
Hence, this would prime the work pump.

    2.  Debate particulars, prior to formulating a spec.  One can argue that 
that sounds like a regular working group, but I've tailored the description to 
fit a before-wg phase.  In any event, this presumes that folks are already 
sharing a common base of knowledge and details and merely need to debates some 
details.

My sense of this extended thread is that the group ain't quite far enough along 
for #2.  I can't tell whether #1 is needed.

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