I was at the Atom Community Meeting all day.  I had only two hours of sleep so my brain pretty much stopped working by late afternoon.  There were some good moments but, overall, it was another reminder of how a meeting can turn smart people, including me, into babbling tiredsome geeks.  Communication wasn't clear and instant understandings were rare.  Of course, my brain's capacity diminishing by the hour didn't help.

Re W3C and IETF, W3C clearly lost their bid for Atom although they made good efforts at the meeting.  I thought what W3C reps said were a bit on the cheesy side but I wasn't entirely happy with the IETF process either, like IETF WG having to use WG mailinglist for all communique and how IETF WG chairs are chosen by a IETF director.  As amazing as it sounds, IETF stunk of bureucracy, albeit one with a geeky twist.

Having to choose between techno-bureacrats and cheesy geeks financed by companies doesn't make me happy but I gave my IETF 'humm' to techno-bureacrats.  I sure hope they don't evolve into techno-rats.

I encouraged formalizing of the Atom 'group' to streamline the syndicated data standard extension approval process, but I don't think it will happen.  Neither IETF nor W3C handles extension approval process well IMHO.

BTW, Tim's post has a nice group photo he somehow managed without his glasses.