[Developers] Freebase and the Politics of Groups

[Paul Tomblin]

Quoting Robert Cook (robert at metaweb.com):
> change much less frequently than other data.  The limiter for schemas  
> isn't the bottleneck of people with permissions, but, rather, people  
> who are experienced enough with data modeling to make the right  
> choices.  Our hope is to find 100 of these people over time, who  
> should be able to handle a large flow of schema changes.

Well, I'm a civil engineer turned computer programmer, I worked for
Geographic Information Systems company for 6 years, I've spent two summers
as a construction layout surveyor, I'm a former national Orienteering
champion in my age category, I've been a pilot for 12 years, and I've been
maintaining a database of aviation waypoints for 6 or 7 years.  All of
which makes me think that I'm qualified to speak on issues related to
data modelling of geographic locations and aviation.  But when I suggest
schema changes to the aviation stuff, I tend to not get any answer for
weeks at a time (my last contribution to the discussion which included
some questions and some suggestions was on September 1st and has not been
responded to).  So how do I become one of those 100 people?

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Paul Tomblin <ptomblin at xcski.com> http://blog.xcski.com/
Graffiti has merely machine-gunned the surviving handwriting ability
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              -- Saundo, on Palm Pilots