FW: [Wylug-discuss] Future meetings.........

[Towle, William]

> I'm always reluctant to rule out alternatives a priori, and I'm
> particularly suspicious of technical solutions to 
> sociological problems,
> but in this case I think a (write) access-contolled wiki would be
> preferable.


> I'm sure that other people have more, and better, ideas than the ones
> I've thought of, but here a few suggestions:
> 
>   1. Install and configure the proposed wiki
>   
>   2. A very simple web database of members skills/knowledge
> 
>      e.g. Distro(s) used, apps needed, specialist app knowledge,
>      level/experience, willingess to talk, etc.
> 
>   3. Help set up hardware and software for workshops
> 
>   4. Act as technical demonstrators for less technical speakers

  Kind of just a though, but point two above makes me wonder if
there's a distinction to be made between "writeup" pages and "user"
pages ... just for comparison, have you seen everything2.com for
example (I'm user "etwills").

  Good points in its favour would be how it makes the writeup-vs-user
page distinction (writeups can be reached either from related entries
or from contributors' home pages), stuff gets peer-moderated by
contributors and is removed if poor or out of date. The system also
has a live chatbox widget.

  On the other hand, the way they configure it restricts contributors
to one entry per topic and as such doesn't lend itself to producing
"definitive walkthrough" style pages like a wiki does (unless someone
elects to merge contributions into their own). Similarly, the
reader-vs-contributor distinction may be a bit too cut-and-dried
as-is.
  It might be useful if these can be worked around, though, or to
support some other (largely read-only) documentation medium...?

Cheers,
  Wills.