<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">I was thinking about the requirements to make this happen. It only needs someone to do the initial organization. So I created a GitHub organization and put up a couple projects. The Matrix4 project is feature-complete. The Complex project is just a foothold.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Now we need more projects. The readme in the contrib project has information about getting your project added.</span><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><a href="https://github.com/swift-breeze" class="">https://github.com/swift-breeze</a></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">I fear it won't be that simple…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">First problem: "Hey github, where can I request team membership??"</div><div class="">I just starred the contrib repo, and I guess you can use this information to bring me into that team… but it should be more straightforward to join.</div><div class="">Or wait, maybe I'm to quick here: Should it be easy to join at all?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The second problem is most likely the real showstopper:</div><div class="">Establishing a real standard requires influence, and that is hard to earn…</div><div class="">It is possible someone else starts a project with the same goal next week, and maybe someone already did it last year, and I just don't know about that "standard".</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Although no absolute requirement, chances for success would be significantly better if the project was managed (or at least supported) by an accepted authority — and taking into account that it is desirable that ultimately its results are shipped with Swift itself, the preferred choice for a manager is someone working in the Core Team (or, more general: At Apple).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I don't know how successful ResearchKit is right now, but I guess it could act as a prototype.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tino</div></body></html>