Re: [eclipse.org-architecture-council] Using Google (or generally extern

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I think this issue of what's in Eclipse IT vs. others (and thus under 
Eclipse's "terms of use" vs. others) is an important one.
 
I am myself not that aware of "terms of use" of Google's (or others) 
calendaring systems, but know it also applies to blogs and other such 
"public" means of communication. And I know I should pay more attention to 
what those terms of use are. 

But for now I simply wanted to cross-reference this line of discussion 
with a recent bugzilla entry, 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=247882

Contrary to it's title, it has to do with whether or not we need an 
Eclipse sourced blogging system ... which seems similar to the issue of 
whether we need an Eclipse sourced calendaring system ... and probably 
even more important, since it's pretty clear that "important information" 
could be contained in a blog entry. 

I'm just posting here to make sure bug 247882 get's proper exposure and 
discussion by those who care and understand such issues. 






From:
August Georg Schmidt <g.schmidt@xxxxxxx>
To:
"eclipse.org-architecture-council" 
<eclipse.org-architecture-council@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:
10/09/2008 04:35 PM
Subject:
[eclipse.org-architecture-council] Using Google (or generally external) 
features in Wiki and for organization.



Hi,
 
today in the AC meeting we have had a request for using Google calendar 
for managing the meeting and the attendees.
 
Generally the usage of such tools has several drawbacks from my point of 
view. 
 
1.       We add structured information to Google, when we are doing 
something.
They are moving strongly into our life and they are extreme collecting our 
data and behavior in the web. I dislike that point. With this information 
a lot of wrong things could be made.
2.       The search in our WIKI is negatively affected.
You are not able to search on this type of content? e.g. an example is the 
calendar on the AC page.
 
I don?t want to add further work to ones task. And I do not have an idea 
yet, how to reduce the amount of time that has to be invested without such 
a tool for coordination.
 
Therefore I would vote with 0 on such a point.
 
Generally I would add a comment of moving this information out of our 
control.
 
As we move more and more information out of our IT system the usage of 
search or similar features is getting more and more complex on our data. 
As a result the only chance to get access to the content is the use of a 
spider to crawl the website. This crawler would be used for creating a 
search index or similar. If we want to improve access to information in 
our IT systems ? like wiki or other page content ? we should be in control 
of our data. If not, accessing the real content we would always have the 
issue on making a decision, what is real and what is just navigational (or 
similar) data. Access to the content is therefore much more complex and 
that could affect the abilities of search algorithms.
 
Search or other knowledge management features? as categorization, content 
based routing, search and many more will get more and more complex or may 
work not optimal.
 
>From my point of view we should keep control on such data. This would give 
us options for flexible operations with our content.
 
Georg
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