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.
