Don,
I guess I don't understand in what way we haven't done exactly as you suggest about Survey.
We posted our intentions to work on it before we even have a spec written. The community knows about this project before a single line of code is written, before the requirements are even done and certainly before a contractor is picked.
I've been talking with the Survey Builder group out of UCLA, I've been talking to Ybos, I've been talking to Open Force. I've emailed my draft, which is hardly a spec at this point, to someone from UMass Donahue who emailed me in response to this post. I talk frequently to Michael Feldman. I've also gotten really good ideas on this subject in the past from the Berkman Center at Harvard.
The community is being involved before the draft of the spec is even done. Your posts are not exactly acting as positive reinforcement. Exactly what more do you want me to do?
