User talk:Sj/coralline

Consider a self-identified group G of collaborators, working on a complex project.

this means we have an environment containing terms denoting a channel to and an 'authorship tag' for each collaborator.

We would like to support, among other things:

• Defining an important topic for discussion, before deciding where it will be discussed.
• Preferred ways / formats to receive full notice or summaries of topics, for each collaborator. (some people want to receive messages as they are sent. Some want summaries every so often. Some want threads to gather in a place where they can be pulled. Some want thread summaries to be queued up every few weeks during a focused period of real-time discussion.)
• Defining topic types such that when a new thread about an essential type is started, it requires input from every one in G, or a quorum of members. Defining workflows / patterns of communication around a topic so that if an essential topic has been around for more than a week, and has not received sufficient input, there is automatic followup.