wiki for research/documentation

[jaytaph]

Would it be a good idea to setup a wiki where we can store all our research and documentation. I'm not sure that discussions would be the best place to store information (but also not sure about a wiki though :))

[blaumeise20]

A wiki is definitely more formal, although I think having everything in one collected discussion is pretty good.

[emwalker]

Personally, I like this discussion forum for the kind of informal research I've been doing for the last few days. One of my hopes with the other research thread is to elicit discussion of a kind that wouldn't really work in a wiki. I'm hoping to learn through further discussion of those topics. Also, I'm doubtful that what I'm putting up in the other thread is of a quality that would be suitable for a wiki; there's a lot of non sequiturs and mistakes in what I'm posting in the other thread.

I do think there's a time and place for a wiki. I just didn't quite have what I'm putting in the other thread in mind for a wiki. Hopefully I'm not imposing on this discussion forum with the other thread.

There is one question that came up for me as I was thinking about it, though. Hypothetically, if this project ever really took off and got a real organization set up, there might be patent trolls and other litigation risks. I do not know what the IP encumbrance is of those projects that I'm looking at and posting about, if Gosub were to adopt approaches used in them in its own code. Presumably Google, Mozilla, and Apple would never sue this project. But who knows what patent trolls might do. I'm not sure if I'm describing the risk adequately; perhaps there's effectively no risk to worry about if this project never intends to sell anything based off of the current Gosub code base, or even if it does.