[Dev] monday CollectionGrid swag

[John Anderson]

I'll be in Utah next Monday and could call in. I'm also here on Thursday 
if that works for everyone.

Alec Flett wrote:

> So I think there has been enough general interest in the idea of 
> CollectionGrid for us to sit down and contemplate what this would be 
> about.
>
> I'd like to suggest that those who are interested in talking about 
> this (Me, Bryan, Katie?, John, David? Reid? anyone else is invited) 
> get together Monday to just sketch out some ideas on the whiteboard. 
> The idea would basically be just to answer questions, and flush out 
> some of the details that me, or bryan, or katie may or may not have 
> thought about.
>
> The meeting will basically be to answer a few questions:
> 1) Whats involved in making our own grid, about up to the level of 
> functionality and appearance of the current grid.. at least very 
> roughly - This will start with us making a list of the features we'd 
> need, and then we'll sketch out some of the implementation issues with 
> boxes and lines and stuff.
>
> 2) What state would we be in when 1) is complete, vs. the current grid 
> - i.e. what flexibility would we have gained from all that work?
>
> 3) Risks? What big unknowns are there that might end up turning this 
> into a giant mess?
>
> The hope is that by the end of the meeting we'll at least lean one way 
> or another: "man, that's just too much work for very little gain" or 
> "wow, this won't take that much work for a real gain in flexibility!"
>
> Alec
>
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