On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Justme <[email protected]> wrote: > > Since you asked Dan :-) > > I much prefer a Forum layout than a group (google, yahoo or > otherwise). They are just much nicer to use.
I've tried that and found less active participation than mailing lists. The inactivity of the BoltWire forum is a good example. But then again, maybe there's some secret to running them I don't know. Do you have mail notifications of forum posts to get faster responses? > Being new to all this I can say it would really help a lot to see > other people's uses of BW and to read about their goals and how they > achieved them. Allowing people to 'get some press' by explaining > their BW solution would be a win win. I am very willing to do this. The page main.stories is open now for editing. Any members who care to share are welcome to post content there. We can simplify the submission process if needed, but most site admins shouldn't have trouble adding stuff about their sites to the page with regular BoltWire markup. > I'm just starting to realize that I will have to build BW to do > anything I want it to do (no leg up), and doing that from scratch is > very overwhelming. It would be much easier for me to create web > pages, have members submit their articles to me and I post them, > because I know how to do this. So it seems to me if people having > built functionality in BW could show case this for others that would > be a great boost this this wiki and it's community. If we had an existing plugin, it would be just install and go. But no one has created that plugin yet, or shared it with the community. I'm hoping we'll have one day many developers making those kinds of contributions. Until then, it is a bit diy in certain areas. How did you want your users to submit articles? File attachments or cut and paste? It's quite easy to set up a submission/approval process in BoltWire though I don't think there's an existing plugin yet. Might be worth pulling one together. As for showcasing sites--we just need stuff posted. When I have a few testimonies up, I'll give it a more prominent spot on the site. > And if you could make a BW area, like I'm trying to make, where BW- > users could select a category and then post the how-to info or > solution under it, then you would have great help files created by the > community, listed under version releases, tips and tricks, > troubleshooting, etc. Right now we have both the docs area and the solutions area. People can create new pages and/or edit content any time they want to help build the documentation. If you are suggesting a simplified submission process we could probably set something up. But it would likely limit options. As it is we have any topic you want, nested down to any level you want. But hey, I'm open to specific suggestions... Cheers Dan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BoltWire" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/boltwire?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
