Rogers, thanks for kicking off the restart of this list. And thanks to everyone
else for not objecting to the newly stated charter. I'm optimistic about our
being able to get work done this time around. I'm willing to use the tools that
Yahoo provides to keep the list on-topic. There are over 170 subscribers [1],
which is quite a lot, so it's potentially a very powerful community. My hope is
that we can have something like the Berkman-Thursdays group at Harvard Law
School, where we have a high standard of achievement and cooperation and we get
things done. That group organized a conference and hosted over 200 people on two
days. That's what can be done if people have a will to work together.

Anyway, Rogers, I will take your notes on OPML 1.1 and turn them into a document
on the opml.org website. I'm also going to move that site off the UserLand host
and put it on one of the new servers I have running here in the Boston area.
Also once the OPML 1.1 spec is adequately reviewed, I will transfer it to
Berkman Center, as I did with the RSS 2.0 spec, and redistribute it under the
Creative Commons license.

Another area that needs attention is to sort out the common uses of attributes
in different tools. Since this is XML, names are case-sensitive. And there is
even some variability beyond that. The first step should be to survey all the
existing tools, see what they produce and then collate the results. Then, once
that's done, it may be possible to have a simple set of recommendations that
enables more interop between tools. But first we have to see how far apart all
the tools actually are. I'll get the ball rolling on this, unless someone else
wants to take the lead. It's not a glamorous job, it requires that one be
thorough and be good at tabulating information.

Dave

PS: I've cc'd this to the Berkman-Thursday list, in case any of you want to
participate in the restart of the OPML developers list.

[1] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/opml-dev/

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