[Wylug-admin] finding speakers

[James Holden]

On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 01:48:46PM +0100, Dave Fisher wrote:
> On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 01:27:55PM +0100, John Leach wrote:
> > I was thinking it would be good to approach speakers and ask if they'd
> > be interested in doing talks at WYLUG at some point.  If they agree, we
> > stick their details on the wiki, and one by one we can pick them off and
> > arrange a particular date with them.
> > 
> > This means anyone can do the initial work of finding speakers at any
> > time, then whoever is organising the particular meeting can arrange the
> > details with the speaker directly.
> > 
> > Obviously this won't work for all types of speakers, but I imagine it
> > will work for some.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> 
> This is one of the ideas I planned to implement myself, so I think it's
> a great one.
> 
> The obstacle for me was setting up the wiki and maintaining it on a
> consistent address/pipe.  N.B. when I say maintaining, I mean
> maintaining it properly, e.g. dealing with authentication, user rights,
> spamming, and a vast number of other details.
>
> 
> Hopefully, if someone commits to maintaining a general wiki for WYLUG,
> this just becomes a page within it.

Indeed. I'm on with this.

Hosting isn't a problem to be honest. It's on my Linode at the moment,
but it's easy to move because DokuWiki's file based so there's no
database dependencies. It's backed up every night by rsync.

It could use a DNS entry though, but I don't know who runs the DNS ;-)

(wiki.wylug.org.uk -> 64.22.103.114)

The authentication is enabled, there's an admin group that can access
the "private" namespace so we can put non-public details in.

Self-registration isn't enabled just yet, because it's not been
spamproofed yet.

It was initially intended to be an admin wiki, but there's no reason why
it can't be a general one, indeed it should be.

James

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