To make collaboration on the design easier, and as a form of documentation for the project (and mainly because I’ve wanted to create a wiki for a while now :)), I’ve created a wiki for Beyond (using MediaWiki). I’m still not sure just how useful it’ll be for design/development, but its usefulness for documentation is clear.

Here’s an example of how I think it’ll be used: I’ll write up a first draft of a spec within the next day or two, and I’ll post it to this blog and to the wiki at the same time. Hopefully it will elicit comments on the blog, and I’ll then edit the wiki version to incorporate any changes. There may be other uses, and they’ll crop up as time goes on.

Assuming finals don’t hit me too hard, I’ll consolidate all the ideas into a map or spec, deciding what’s important and what’s not. (For an initial version, of course.) Simplicity is key. And I’ve got to figure out the whole revision control system. Once I’ve sorted everything into Now and Later categories, I think I’ll start building a prototype…

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