On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 16:46, Steffen Barszus wrote:
> On Monday 10 March 2003 01:00, Greg Meyer wrote:
> > On Sunday 09 March 2003 06:50 pm, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> > > Le Lundi 10 Mars 2003 00:29, Greg Meyer a �crit :
> > > > On Sunday 09 March 2003 06:03 pm, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> > > > > Maybe mandrakesoft.com could drop mandrake.org domain name in favor
> > > > > of such project  ?
> > > >
> > > > How about the old MandrakeUser.org?
> > >
> > > I really think this is _the_ ultimate documentation source for mandrake,
> > > but in englihs only, which make it useless for non-english speaking
> > > newbies. Unfortunatly, Toms seems to have disapeared, as he doesn't
> > > answer to mails, and even mdksoft people seems to have lost any contact.
> > >
> > > Anyway, it is still an official mdk website, which is precisely my point:
> > > if we want to have complete freedom, we must be self-sufficient. We just
> > > need to find how to host such a site (first issue), and how to name it
> > > (second point).
> >
> > I am saying that if the domain is no longer going to be used (it has
> > disappeared from the Official Mandrake web page headers) it could be
> > repurposed.
> >
> > Although, I think Denis has plans for something like this on the Club site
> > as a way to attract membership.  Shouldn't we be supporting that effort?
> 
> We had several discussions in club allready how to maintain the content of 
> mandrakeuser.org and how to organize HowTos and so on. As there was no 
> decission made till yet, sascha opened the mentioned wiki on OpenFacts to do 
> actually something. 
>  I would say a wiki would be the best way. What I miss currently in the 
> wikipedia-soft from openfacts is a "translate"-Button like in the club. 
> (Alltough multilanguage support is integrated, you get so used of it if you 
> had it once ;)) The domain mandrakeuser.org would of course be nice for such 
> a wiki. 

If it's going to have a wiki which I'm all for I recommend TWiki..  We
use it internally at my company... Why ... Stability reliability and the
ability to do skins / private webs.  It can do multiple webs within the
web as well as have multil-tiered access....


> 
> I can not say how the future plans of deno are for this. And I didn't read the 
> whole thread why it is necassary to have a complete community driven site. If 
> plf is the reason I guess it would be be enough to place a disclaimer that 
> all the informations on that site are from the community for the community. 
> If I write something about plf in the wiki it is nothing that mandrakesoft 
> has to worry about then. 


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