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Wassup with Bite Size?
Tuesday June 13, 2006
There are faint mumblings from some quarters about the lack of updates on Bite Size Standards so let me tell you where it is at.
Each Bite goes through two layers of editing before it goes live. The idea is that this way the quality can be assured to a certain degree. Quite simply the editing process has stalled. We need more editors and now I have to work out who to ask and how to encourage people to give over some of their free time.
Here’s the thing I have discovered about voluntary projects like this. Everyone is keen to help in principal but when it comes to it about 0.1% of the people are actually able contribute due to other commitments and that includes me; I have paid work, which comes first. We had a mass of authors sign up, very few have submitted Bites, so we need more authors too. Like I said it is an experiment and sometimes experiments go wrong.
So, where we are right now is a few active editors, all busy people, all with paid jobs doing what they can, when they can. There are perhaps 10 bites waiting to be processed, but I can’t tell you when they will be live and besides if the Bite needs to be published that quickly, it’s not of much worth.
Matthew Pennel has finished a system that allows us to start taking article submissions from potential authors but I am not ready to open that up until we have the framework in place to do the job properly but if you have started writing, fear not if Bite Size folds, hey you have something for your blog… but I suspect we will open things up just as soon as is possible.
So it’s getting there, slowly, yes but Rome wasn’t built in a day… though I think it fell in one.
