Talk:Working group/Archives/2012

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)