Last updated by AndyRoberts on Sun, 2007-02-04 23:18
Acronyms
What those abbreviations mean.
A self-organised practioners peer group in which domain specific knowledge, tips, Q & A and mutual support can be shared. Often there is a dynamic relationship between a core and a periphery. Such an organic structure will be essential for the 50+ country managers to learn together how best to do that job.
Complete drupal packages which can be implemented in each distributed instance of the system for a country. Is there also a central installation for the whole thing or can it work on a peer-to-peer basis?
Used by developers to do collaborative programming
PJN specific module(s) to handle unique functions of the market process - matching, auctions, reputation etc...
Definitions
An emergent system of classification which relies upon many people adding free format 'tags' after the creation of content rather than a pre-determined list of categories.
Historically a physically seperate network of computers within one or more buildings, eg company HQ with no access to the outside world. Nowadays represented in software term through the use of password protected areas which use the infratsructure of the public internet but are not a part of it.