<html><body> <tt> > > How often does freedesktop.org specification team conference call,  how > > often does the group meet? > > I don't think it's ever met. </tt> <tt>I would like to propose that a 30 minute fortnightly conference call be setup to drive the following as outlined:</tt> <tt>1) team mission</tt> <tt>    for example, </tt><tt><a href="http://www.linuxbase.org/">http://www.linuxbase.org/</a></tt> <tt>2) team procedures / policies</tt> <tt>    for example, </tt><tt><a href="http://lsbbook.gforge.freestandards.org/org.html">http://lsbbook.gforge.freestandards.org/org.html</a></tt> <tt>3) general specification process </tt> <tt>    for example, <a href="http://lsbbook.gforge.freestandards.org/spec-expand.html">http://lsbbook.gforge.freestandards.org/spec-expand.html</a></tt> <tt>4) specification selection criteria</tt> <tt>    for example, </tt><tt><a href="http://lsbbook.gforge.freestandards.org/crit.html">http://lsbbook.gforge.freestandards.org/crit.html</a></tt> <tt>5) candidate identification</tt> <tt>   for example, </tt><tt><a href="http://lsbbook.gforge.freestandards.org/candidate.html">http://lsbbook.gforge.freestandards.org/candidate.html</a></tt> <tt>6) candidate specification tracking</tt> <tt>    for example, </tt><tt><a href="http://lsbbook.gforge.freestandards.org/tracking.html">http://lsbbook.gforge.freestandards.org/tracking.html</a></tt> <tt>In parallel, desktop developers continue to work as usual [but with more documentation and validation in mind ;-)].  In addition, some write specifications, and others write conformance test suites.</tt> <tt>The end result is a well defined freedesktop.org core to be deployed by the Linux distributions which is validated by the LSB.  freedesktop.org wins, the LSB wins, the distros win, application developers win, and most importantly the end-users win.  :-)</tt> <tt>Best regards,</tt> <tt>George (gk4)</tt> </body></html>