Talk:Role

Roles & people

The biggest confusion in the field regarding roles is about the difference between a role and a person. Think of the word "role" within the context of theatre, the play is composed of actors (the people) and scenes making up the story. The scenes that make up the story define the roles involved and their communications amongst each other. The play is defined in terms of roles, not in terms of actual specific people which are chosen to perform the roles. The same play could be performed by different sets of people.

Project roles

The roles used in a generic organisation haven't been documented or refined yet, but a Category:Roles and Category:Nodal Organisations have been started.

Nodal roles

This is for the nodal definition of role, which is basically an instance of a nodal class filled by Human instead of code. Nodal roles are activated and deactived from within contexts in a similar wat to services or daemons using the processes in the nodeINIT, nodeMAIN and nodeEXIT associations.