[Standards] CSC space at GitHub

[Piotr Bański]

Dear All,

I have made the CSC space at GitHub public, with some initial goodies 
for a good beginning.

https://github.com/clarin-eric/standards

So far, the repository contains the code for the Standards Information 
System (the production version that is running off an IDS server and 
should eventually move to clarin.eu). I have confirmed that it can be 
run off a working copy, on your desktop (it requires eXist). The 
installation instructions are part of the documentation at 
https://github.com/clarin-eric/standards/wiki

I envision a lot more work done before the next CLARIN conference, and 
the GitHub space offers to us some infrastructure for keeping the goals 
in sight and collaborating on reaching them.

The SIS is an end-point of the roadmap towards a maintainable and 
unified list of standards. I have done some progress with a position 
paper narrating in greater detail and more orderly the story that I 
shared with you in Aix, with quite some improvements, also thanks to 
your feedback.

We can all define tasks in the repository space (in terms of issue 
tickets), and these tasks can be organized into projects. I have defined 
two initial projects. One of them will be the locus of the dynamicity 
that we need for the kind of approach to the standards that we have 
discussed (introducing new ones, deprecating or re-classifying others, 
etc.).

While I work on the narrative, may I ask you to share with me your 
GitHub user names, so that I could add you to the repository? 
Incidentally, if we all participate in the GitHub space, that can be a 
good, bottom-up complement to the static list of Committee members, 
which I think is still incomplete 
(https://www.clarin.eu/governance/standards-committee ).

Let me finish by wishing you all a successful year (while it's still 
January and arguably not too late for that ;-))

Best regards,

   Piotr

-- 
Piotr Bański, Ph.D.
Senior Researcher,
Institut für Deutsche Sprache,
R5 6-13
68-161 Mannheim, Germany