[cap-talk] [cap-conf] OS juncture papers

[Jed Donnelley]

At 04:28 AM 2/29/2008, Valerio Bellizzomi wrote:
>On 28/02/2008, at 18.07, Jed Donnelley wrote:
>
> >On 2/28/2008 4:15 PM, Valerio Bellizzomi wrote:
> >> This list makes you cross-post and us have duplicate messages. Does it
> >> make sense for a single workshop ?
> >
> >Hmmm.  There has already been some and I expect more
> >traffic on cap-conf that will be more or less logistical
> >for the workshop.  I don't think people on cap-talk
> >would be interested (?).  I know that much of what
> >is discussed on cap-talk is not of interest to some
> >of the historical or logistical people interested
> >in the cap-conf list.
> >
> >Still, there are items that seem to have both
> >historical interest and it seems to me of interest
> >to cap-talk - as was the case with this "OS juncture"
> >message.
> >
> >I suggest leaving things as they are for at least
> >a while.  If this continues to be a concern then
> >we can reevaluate it.
>
>But I hope that this list will lead to *many* cap workshops, possibly also
>one that I can attend without traveling outside the country.
>
>val

Hmmm.  Doesn't the above topic seem more relevant to the
cap-talk list than to the cap-conf list?  I'm responding
on cap-talk.

The above seems to present quite a rosy picture.  When you
say "without traveling outside the country", is the
country you refer to Italy?  How much 'capability' activity
is there in Italy?

I was delighted to see some 15 or so people at the Friday
morning capability discussion group at Hewlett Packard
last Friday (Feb. 22), but even such a slightly expanded
group - just in Silicon Valley - still seems to me a
rather small collection if what you are looking for is
to have "capability system" discussions take their place
as a respected aspect of computer system discussions in
general, e.g. perhaps as measured by something like the
ACM Special Interest Groups.  SigCap still seems to me
a rather long ways away at this point ;-).  Of course I'd
be delighted if I was wrong about that.  If we can get
something like this proposed "Capability Systems Workshop"
to happen then we might be vectoring in that direction,
but with still a very long way to go I'm afraid.

--Jed  http://www.webstart.com/jed-signature.html