mherger wrote: > While I still think running your own wiki is not a great idea, > Michael, I appreciate if you let me know if you have a specific reason for this feeling (except that it will require a bit of work for someone in the community to manage it), send it via mail if you feel you can't or don't want to post it public.
Maybe I'm wrong, but honestly from my perspective Logitech has abandoned the Squeezebox and Logitech support organization doesn't use the wiki for the UE Smart Radio devices, so based on this it's only a matter of time until they shut down the wiki, my feeling is that community members will likely feel more interested to maintain the content if they know the community hosts it and it won't be abruptly shutdown without a notice one day in similar way as Logitech suddenly stopped selling Squeezeboxes without any warning. I guess there is a risk that the community will lose interest in maintaining the wiki over time when more and more community members move to hardware from other manufacturers, but it's definitely not any worse than it is at the moment because at the moment it's not maintained at all, I looked through the change log earlier this week and except for the minor changes I've personally made there has barely been any changes on the wiki the last months/year. mherger wrote: > > there might be a chance to get the data if you approach it the right > way. Pretty often wonders can happen if you can make someone believe he > can save a few bucks. If you try to get that data, you should make clear > that Logitech could shut down its wiki _afterwards_. Not only would this > be a motivator to hand over the data, but it would also prevent the risk > of split effort. > Agreed, if we do this we really need to be sure we can keep it alive and I think we should even recommend Logitech to shutdown their wiki afterwards (independent if we can get a database dump or not) else it will be very confusing with almost the same information in two places. mherger wrote: > > That said I haven't spoken to anyone here about this plan. If you're > serious about it I can bring up the topic. I just don't want to wake up > the sleeping dog who might decide to shut the wiki down without any > transition instead... > Let's wait a week or two and see how much interest there is in the community before doing any more investigations in this direction. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97718 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
