<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="font-size: 15px; ">Dear All,</div><div style="font-size: 15px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 15px; ">I invite you to watch the following presentation. It was recommended by Eliot, thanks Eliot, and he is correct it is brilliant. I have watched it several times.</div><div style="font-size: 15px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 15px; ">Eliot wrote:</div><div style="font-size: 15px; "><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>I suggest you do need to see <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/clay_shirky_on_institutions_versus_collaboration.html">http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/clay_shirky_on_institutions_versus_collaboration.html</a> and think about its implications.</div></div></blockquote><br></div><div style="font-size: 15px; ">The current "institution" is an "obstacle" to progress, and both the "trunk" repository and the pharo team's approaches, are inherently exclusionary, generating only one product, under the guidance of the professional class of elite programmers, and celebrities we have elected etc. (you have to watch the talk). [that is why the bob process was proposed in the first place]</div><div style="font-size: 15px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 15px; ">We need, and have known for while that we need the equivalent of the printing press, the thing that actually facilitates chaos and creativity, that can then be co-ordinated in its diversity and creativity, rather than being controlled. We need to level the playing field for all of us, even the little guy, the below average, "way to the left" on the contribution curve contributors.</div><div style="font-size: 15px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 15px; ">What we really need as an essential starting point is actually the kernel image that we have talked about for so long. So thank you Juan Vuletich, thank you for your kernel image, I am sure it will go far.</div><div style="font-size: 15px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 15px; ">We just need a couple of tools for CUIS that will allow contributions at ANY level, and tools and infrastructure that can cope with forking if someone wants to be liberated from Juan's benevolent control of the kernel.</div><div style="font-size: 15px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 15px; ">Essentially I am proposing a paradigm shift from "centralized" scm, like subversion or CVS (aka trunk).</div><div style="font-size: 15px; ">and we need the equivalent of git/mercurial and bazaar, where development is decentralised and we can branch to our hearts content.</div><div style="font-size: 15px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 15px; ">So, welcome to the brave new world, built in Cuis.</div><div style="font-size: 15px; "> </div><div style="font-size: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Keith</span></font></span></div><div style="font-size: 15px; "><br></div></body></html>