In this case, open collaboration is central and pervasive. Complexity is driven upward toward the Village Scale first. A village count of 17 is consider an "ideal" mass.. just above the "critical" mass 12. The numerics involved use a prime vector to establish an arithemetically intuite set of iterations over a clearly defined set of knowns called collectivly: Given: - a namespace for all that is set forth on the terminal board.

As a collection of autonomous terminals, the TB connects (cp. hardwires) community standards that have been set, codified and modelled according to an original open group standard drafted here. (anywhere, actually)  This schema allows all named users to accept roles and tweak established standards within their own home directory according to their own preferences. Nothing is assumed by default, except that the target user space is for the general betterment of the largest variety of people, places and situations and their associated field of work.

OK, this is pretty awesome, and actually very helpful as I'm currently working to get my head around ProM and understand some of its motivating dynamics a bit more. We have been underusing our user stories, but the original idea was to attach them to tickets. So that, for example, when we see that the fix direct links to related tab Ticket will help resolve, say, 6 user stories, then we know it's a valuable ticket.

This story is grand enough that I don't know if there's much value in trying to attach it to specific tickets, but it will probably be a great reference point as we map ProM needs to wagn structures.

To clarify -- is it your notion that ProM will essentially resolve the Happyville story, or does Happyville have a life for you outside of ProM?

  --Ethan McCutchen.....Thu Mar 24 12:32:52 -0700 2011

In ProM context we have been putting such big stories in a class of Visions and Ideas, with an idea of distilling User Stories from them, which would be more canonical in form. The idea is that there would often be multiple user stories derived from one such Vision/idea. We are still working out a workflow to connect them.

  --Michael "Networking" Maranda.....Thu Mar 24 13:09:55 -0700 2011

resonates vaguely with a long-time vision of mine - http://ourpla.net/cgi/pikie?BuildingActivities - well, at least as far as having a media focus. More to the point, you might be interested in http://journalismthatmatters.org/ and the conference they're holding just before the upcoming media reform conference in Boston - http://biblionews.org

  --John Abbe.....Thu Mar 24 17:39:43 -0700 2011