The project was first proposed in January 2014 as A Proposal for Collaboration on a Pattern Language for Service Systems (Science, Management, Engineering and Design) at the Systems Science Working Group meeting. The initial shepherd is David Ing...
Collaboration was endorsed in principle in January 2014 by INCOSE (International Council on Systems Engineering) and the ISSS (International Society for the Systems Sciences), and in April 2014 by ISSIP (International Society for Service Innovation Professionals)...
In June 2014, David Ing has been experimenting with a federated wiki at http://wiki.coevolving.com/. Contributing authors may be encouraged to similarly follow the Share Cards Openly for a personal instance of a wiki that federates.