I’m afraid I forgot to mention this, but there is still time: My collegues in our XML group have released a public draft of a new Handbook for Standardization. This “cook book” is in English. Comments are invited.
One of the key issues in the handbook is about communities of practice (CoPs). I personally think the handbook is missing some points about how CoPs work (where is “learning”?).
On related issues: I would really like to participate in the International Conference on Communities and Technologies to be held in Amsterdam on 19-21 September 2003. Guess I should write a paper …