'''Guiding Principle:''' Any technical solution proposed here that does not solve a problem demanded by TheAudience is wrong.

'''Therefore,''' we must answer the following questions:

* How do we determine what TheAudience demands? 
* Who is TheAudience?

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NathanielThurston: Sunir, I'm curious about your assertion that "Meatball is unscalable".  Why is this, and what would you do if Meatball were to come under pressure to grow larger?

SunirShah: To the casual observer, Meatball is incredibly obscure, insular, navel-gazing, obtuse, and not very helpful. Our model requires a ridiculous up front investment of time and energy. I don't understand the pressure to scale Meatball either. What's the objective?

HelmutLeitner: I think I understand the motivation of Fridemar and Nathaniel and it comes very natural: to turn the social capital and potential of Meatball into real capital.

SunirShah: We can certainly adapt Meatball to be more scalable. A first exercise is to fix StartingPoints by hand, and then enforce that in the InformationArchitecture of the site.

NathanielThurston: I think you've answered my question: It's not the "supply" that's missing (the ability to scale if required), but the "demand" (the impression to the casual observer).  Regarding the proposition that we should strive to increase the demand by changing Meatball, all I would advocate at the moment is to keep discussion alive.


== # ScalingMeatball by MetaSystemTransition ==

FridemarPache -- Sat Sep 26 12:49:27 2009

Please consider the idea of a [http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/MST.html Meta System Transition], taking the S1,..,Sn as Sunir's wiki clones or more general as Wikis or even the platforms of CommunitiesThatScale. The "controlling" System could be a system, that uses the APIs of GoogleSideWiki or other platforms to generate automatic (bidirectional) trails in form of ConceptMaps. Usemod's '''TeaTime everywhere''' could be such a scaling wiki. However, instead of a  fork, it could deliver the technology extension in combination with the rich LinkLanguage of Meatball. The same holds for all wikis, adjacent to Meatball.