freeform goodness

The Atom engineering effort is, as people following the evolution of the spec probably already know, centered in a Wiki that lives at http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/FrontPage. There are several lesser known places to pick up project information, too. What follows is a list of most of the major sites of information of which I’m currently aware.

• The wiki. The epicenter of development. Can be an intimidating place thanks to its size and sprawl. It’s being worked on.
• Formerly Echo, following the development of the syndication framework formerly known as Echo. A weblog that provides “one-stop shopping” for events in the Atom development community. If you only have time to follow a single resource but still want to keep half an eye on the development of the format, this is the site bookmark or subscribe to in your aggregator.
• The Atom Syntax mailing list. “The atom-syntax mailing list is for developing a syntax for Atom (as compared to talking about its motivation).” Lots of nuts and bolts implementation discussion happens here.
• #echo on irc.freenode.net. A good place to hang out if you want to chat with some of the developers in real-time. Also, the place where “wiki gardening” is hashed out — discussions of major refactorings in the Atom wiki space happen here (see the Wiki or Formerly Echo to see when these events are scheduled.)
• Two (current) snaps up:
  • A draft of the current Atom API (draft 7)
  • A snapshot of the syndication format (0.2)
• This list is (obviously) not all-inclusive. I’ll add additional links as I find them, or if you know of a significant one that’s missing, point it out in the comments.

:: Dave Walker 10:01 (EST/EDT) [+] ::

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