Groupware Pages

Charter. It was agreed at the Austin hillside meeting that a web based archive of past conference materials would improve the operation of future plops. I volunteered.

Location. I'm assuming that archival material will appear at many sites. These pages are intended as an annotated index to useful materials stored elsewhere. Of upmost importance is the ease with which current PLoP volunteers can make the materials they produce and the insights they gain available to subsequent committees. I am less concerned with the long term stability of the resources.

Indexing. The best index is one that works. I'm trusting everyone to help me index resources productively. That's why I've used wiki for ploptory. It lets us all tweek and tune the structure of the archive as well as its content. I intend that each remote resource will have a paragraph or two that explains to a committee member when, how and why it would be useful. For example, Kent addressed his explanation of our review process to submitters. When I summarize his letter, I am addressing a future program chair looking to borrow words.

Contributions. If you have anything that you think might possibly be useful to a future committee, please...

• Write it here as a ploptory page.
• Serve it somewhere and write a ploptory page pointing to it.
• Send it (or a pointer) to me and I'll put it in the ploptory.

Timeliness. I hope to get as much material as possible from one PLoP to the next. Ploptory could be so up-to-date that it would be useful as a communication vehicle within just one PLoP committee. I'd like to see a committee try this so long as...

• Ploptory remain redundant with and second to direct email communication among committee members.
• Confidential material (submissions, reviews, etc.) be omitted unless ploptory is made more secure.