Talk:Working group/Archives/2012

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Alternate spelling: workgroup

Workgroup now mentions the alternate spelling workgroup. Workgroup is often used as an adjective (as in "workgroup meeting") but can also be found as a noun. Savannah River Site Health Effects Subcommittee (SRSHES) Meeting gives examples of both uses. For groups formally called workgroups see

Reactor Facility Decommissioning Workgroup

"The Community Workgroup for the decommissioning of the closed Reactor Facility at NASA Glenn Research Center's Plum Brook Station will meet on Tuesday, January 18, from 7-9 p.m. in the Perkins High School cafeteria, located at 3714 Campbell Street in Perkins Township."

Pacific Northwest Native Freshwater Mussel Workgroup

I believe that "workgroup" is also used as a more informal term for a collaborative group working closely together. Please add information to this page if you feel it is appropriate, or, if you feel the meaning is different, create a new page for Workgroup (Group of people). Jodi.a.schneider (talk) 16:42, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

What WGs shold be listed?

Folami, I see you deleted "IETF Working Group". Why?

Why do you ask?

Because I added it because I thought it belonged there - it's a good example of a working group. So you disagree with me. Until I understand why you disagree, there's no point in putting it back. --Alvestrand 03:00, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

It was already mentioned earlier that this wiki was a work in progress. Your criticism was going to be addressed by this wiki; obviously that was not acceptable to you.

The motivation for the four-sentence wiki you created is, at best, rather suspect. If you think "...it's a good example of a working group...", well, you are entitled to your opinion... Folajimi^(talk)

when you say "wiki", do you mean a single wiki page? I normally use the term to describe an entire website, not a single page.

WRT motivation - I don't understand your remark. I think the IETF working group concept is an interesting one, so having it described on its own wiki page seems sensible. But it's a rather special beast, so using lots of cycles on the "working group" page to describe it didn't seem to me like the best thing to do. I don't know what's suspect about that. --Alvestrand 03:54, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Fleshed out section on "technical working group"

Reason is that I found a link from an article for "working group" where the link was intended as an explanation of what an ISO WG is. People should be able to get there from here. --Alvestrand 07:03, 24 February 2006 (UTC)