Hey folks, There has been a lot of complaining on the lists lately about document formats and such, so I thought I'd make a new thread for it.
In the past week, me and Nathan updated the various wiki pages related to the election. Me and Mak used to do this, but neither of us are on the board now so I'd appreciate it if the current board could take over responsibility for tracking our history on the wiki. It's our only real historical record. More importantly, I've noticed Word docs going around lately. I don't know where that came from, but unless we're also installing Sharepoint or something similar, I think this is a bad, bad idea. Word offers no way to collaborate, version, share, and link other than attaching to emails and arguing about who has the most recent version. Plus, using commercial products is very non-hackery. I'd even call it mildly embarrassing. *MY* SkullSpace using .docx? OMGZ!? :) Anyway, I *highly* recommend using the wiki for this sort of thing. If there's some reason we stopped using the wiki, then let's tackle that (I can install new plugins or whatever if that's the issue) or let's look for a different solution. If we need professional looking documents, we can copy stuff from the wiki into a .docx when needed. Much to the chagrin of others, I brought up Google Docs in the other thread. Yes, it's the company I work for. I think the wiki is a much better solution, but Docs has the collaboration/sharing/etc that Word lacks, and is also open to all (with a Google account). We also use Google Calendar, so if somebody is willing to take the time to set everything up, we can use the full ecosystem. But I still think the Wiki is the way to go. So yeah, please use this thread to discuss this sorta thing. And if you *do* decide that .docx is the most hackery format, then be prepared for me to complain every time I see it on the list. :P Ron _______________________________________________ SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/
