[Wylug-admin] Re: admin wiki - openness

[James Holden]

Hi John,

On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 11:30:00AM +0100, John Leach wrote:
> Just my opinion on open-ness:  The wylug-admin stuff does appear to be a
> bit secret to an outsider - I'm sure not deliberately.  I'd recommend
> doing everything we can to encourage contributions on the running of
> wylug so we need to do more to open this up.  The wiki would probably be
> a good start.  Let's make it as public as we can.  

It's probably because there's always really been one person doing the
organising, if we're honest.

I deliberated about whether to keep the wiki closed or open, and decided
that closed would be better to protect the private bits of information
and prevent spammage, but.......

> If there is information we have a good reason to keep private on there
> (organisers or speakers phone numbers perhaps), we can easily make just
> those parts of it private (DokuWiki supports this).  Maybe just a
> general wiki, with a wylug-admin section (DokuWiki does "namespaces"),
> with some private bits if necessary.

...... I didn't know about the more fine-grained access control
available in Dokuwiki. Maybe it's a new thing.

This obviously means a re-think. Let me have a look at how the config
for that works and I'll open it up if it's possible.

I'd favour open over closed if at all possible.

> WYLUG obviously has bigger problems to solve right now, but I think it'd
> be good to start out right.

Yup :) it's obviously more than a one man job, so I thought starting up
some sort of collaboration tool would be a good start, particularly
given that nobody else is doing anything much. It seemed like a
reasonable way to kick-start things.

Let me have a fiddle with it and I'll get some login details out to
likely helpers by the end of the weekend.

Cheers,

James

> 
> John.
> 
> On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 00:30 +0100, James Holden wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > [Cc'd into John and Louisa - please subscribe to wylug-admin if you're
> > able to help out in even the smallest way :) ]
> > 
> > No idea whether this will work or not, but I've set up a private wiki to
> > track who's doing what for upcoming meetings, and to centralise details
> > of possible speakers etc.
> > 
> > It's currently at http://wylugadmin.jamesholden.net/, but if whoever
> > runs the DNS could point adminwiki.wylug.org.uk to 64.22.103.114 it'd be
> > nicer.
> > 
> > Can you let me know your preferred usernames and I'll add entries to the
> > htaccess file?
> > 
> > It's a DokuWiki installation, chosen mostly due to the simple syntax.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > James
> > 
> -- 
> http://johnleach.co.uk
> 
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