Hello all, I have resumed work on the White Paper lately (read only link, co-authors also have the read-write one). Here is an update.
The White Paper turns out to be quite a large endeavor. The current version stands at over 8,000 words, and is far from finished. Plus, it is only a draft; even the parts that are already written need at least one substantial pass. I am not clear how close to finished it should be before we put online a first version.
On the other hand, it is a really valuable comprehensive document. I imagine it will not be read back-to-back, but rather consulted.
- I have now full drafts of sections 1, 3, 4, 5, 11 and 13. Section 5, on network reduction, does not yet contain a discussion on hierarchies as network reduction.
- I have copied the text from @hugi’s Google Doc into section 12, in practice it contains an intro and section 12.1, with a few more subsections to finish.
- I have added data repositories to section 14.2.
To complete a first draft, this leaves:
- Section 2 on epistemology. This is perhaps the most dense. @markomanka and I organized a discussion about it for next week.
- Section 6 on saturation, care of Marco.
- Section 7 and 8 on coding, care of @amelia.
- Sections 9 and 10, on outreach and community management. But here I have mixed feelings. Perhaps, given the more general approach we are giving to SSNA lately, we could also remove these sections, and introduce a simple reference to them into section 13. Any thoughts, anyone?
- Section 12 needs to be finished (by Hugi)
- Section 14.1 (code repos) needs also to be finished.
When that is done, we will need to attack a second draft; re-read, edit, address the comments (I have already left many, I don’t doubt many more will come).
Are you guys still up for this, or should I stop investing time?