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At 02:00 PM 3/27/01 -0500, Ann Navarro wrote: >>XSchema/DDML (which Ron and I worked on) was built entirely on electronic >>discussion. I didn't meet my fellow editors (or even hear their voices) >>until well after the spec went to the W3C. > >Ok, but how much time (b) did you give? I gave about 200 hours, personally. I don't think anyone else spent nearly that much, though Ron Bourret and John Cowan gave substantial amounts of time. On the other hand, there were a lot of important contributions made by people who didn't spend nearly that much time. The time required to edit a document and the time required to contribute to a document are pretty different things. The purely electronic approach made it possible for people to contribute when they could, and to whatever level they could support. We didn't get a lot of useless mail, as I look over that archive again. Simon St.Laurent - Associate Editor, O'Reilly and Associates XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. XHTML: Migrating Toward XML http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books
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