This site was originally started as a wiki for the AMQP development work, and was used to discuss and document various specifications. In 2007 the AMQP working group decided to restructure the protocol as a "stack of specifications" but the decision was not carried out until 2008 when some of the working group decided to move ahead, and use the wiki.amqp.org site for that.
The legal framework for the work done on this site was developed by the Digital Standards Organization, which aims to promote grass-roots standardization projects, by providing reusable patterns and tools.
The site is powered and hosted by Wikidot.com, an open source platform for collaborative wikis. Using Wikidot makes it possible to build the right structures quickly. The wiki.amqp.org site is largely based on Wikidot templates developed by Digistan and other projects.
The goals of this site are social, and technical. The social goals are:
- To build an expert community around AMQP
- To produce small, cheap, provable pieces of work
- To offer a visible, rapid, and economic process
- To allow anyone to walk-up and contribute
And the technical goals are:
- To complement AMQP with additional specs and designs
- To provide a space for protocol experimentation
- To provide specifications that can be turned into official AMQP standards
Every contributor is responsible for his or her work. You can contact the operators of the site via the public mailing list.
