eric the espeon
maybe I just misunderstood
As I see it the greatest thing to come out of this project initially would be the setting up of a place for a group of sites to communicate at a high level. This would allow us to standardize more than just tool outputs, and aid co-operation (possibly making things like metalkid's proposed global Pokemon database possible). Having a standard for displaying information about Pokemon would be fairly handy though, for example being able to transfer teams from one simulator to another.
We do need to decide some goals, and what wants to be standardized, however we should do that on the UEPC forum once we're underway. I envision a place where any of the sites can bring up an issue or something which there is inconsistency on, everyone would debate for a while and either reach a consensus or vote. It would not have to be a short term all goals set at the start type project.
If not all major sites buy into it that would not make it a failure. Really, I'm impressed by how many major sites have shown interest already. If the project works then the rest, or at least a vast majority, will almost certainly end up adopting the standards or getting involved. Not all will, and this is to be expected, but having an "official" standard is still a good way to go.
We do need to decide some goals, and what wants to be standardized, however we should do that on the UEPC forum once we're underway. I envision a place where any of the sites can bring up an issue or something which there is inconsistency on, everyone would debate for a while and either reach a consensus or vote. It would not have to be a short term all goals set at the start type project.
If not all major sites buy into it that would not make it a failure. Really, I'm impressed by how many major sites have shown interest already. If the project works then the rest, or at least a vast majority, will almost certainly end up adopting the standards or getting involved. Not all will, and this is to be expected, but having an "official" standard is still a good way to go.