Just to set the record straight... I've been blogging about the Activity Streams effort since last spring -- and it seems like only now people are starting to show real interest -- seriously a great thing -- but completely unanticipated! The last meetup on activities was put on Upcoming (as well as this one) and we had like 8 people show up. I've held previous events at Citizen Space that were somewhat more restricted, but it's nothing that I wouldn't have told anyone about who'd have asked. Let me just say that my process for these kinds of initiatives comes from experience. As I did with OAuth, I tend to keep the initial group small and tight and the mailing list closed -- inviting folks who are actual implementors of some technology that we'd like to see standardized (or made more conventional). This helps us keep focused, enabling us to agree on the problem that we're really trying to solve before we open to wider discussion. This is not a proprietary process -- anyone can do the same thing and I enco - Chris Messina from FriendFeed MT Plugin

so Chris, what are you hiding?? lol, I kid, I kid. sounds like a tough spot to be in, organizing. sounds like your perspective is a reasonable one, though. - Marshall Kirkpatrick from IM