OHS/DKR Proposed Plan of Action Eugene Eric Kim Thursday, March 30, 2000

Presentation Overview Overall mission Project mission Managing the project Technical agenda Bootstrapping opportunities Funding strategy

Overall mission Well-defined by Doug and the Bootstrap Institute – Guiding principle for the project: –Bootstrap everything!

Project Mission Build the Open Hyperdocument System (OHS) and a Dynamic Knowledge Repository (DKR)

Managing the Project

Comments on Hierarchy Applies to multiple task forces Designed to maximize the effort, time, and contribution of motivated individuals Accountability and conflict-resolution A role for everyone Not every position needs to be filled

Task Forces Development team Maintaining the DKR Intellectual Property Advocacy Fundraising

Management Agenda Solicit/assign task force leads Compile list of interested task force contributors and their contact information Discussion forums for task forces Devise short-term agendas and schedules

Technical Agenda Adam Cheyer’s Session 4 proposal as our framework –Technical features well-documented by Doug –Initial requirements list by Eric Armstrong Highly iterative development process (bootstrapping again!) –Small set of requirements, aggressive scheduling

Technical Agenda (cont.) Encourage volunteers to bootstrap on top of our efforts

Open Source Issues Standards Forking is not a bad thing! Licensing –Software –Documents

Initial Technical Objectives World Wide Web Augment Source code

Initial Approach Define XML schemas Publishing documents Different views Editing/browsing Actions and filters

Case study: Record and publish unrev-II and other related discussion lists Features: –Granular addressability –Back-link management –Annotations

Case Study: Web/Augment Publish all of the documents, papers, and presentations we generate using our system Software requirements management Conversion of existing Augment documents

Bootstrapping Opportunities Internal bootstrapping Software development infrastructure Open source project management Intellectual property Funding

Funding Strategy Funding efforts should occur in parallel with OHS/DKR development effort Determine funding needs Investigate creative contributions Bootstrap Institute handles distribution of funds