I would be happy to help any way that I can.
Jane
On Jul 14, 2006, at 7:52 PM, Alastair Campbell wrote:
Hi everyone,
After giving Voiceover a days work worth of effort I was skeptical
that
people could use it for day to day tasks, but you guys have
convinced me
otherwise.
There seems to be general consensus that there needs to be a central
resource for a voiceover users guide created by the knowledge of this
list. A day after posting an offer to create one, there has been good
support for having such a central resource, the only concerns were
about
who should set it up.
Darcy & Holly have the domain and technology to create a central
resource, but it may not be soon. Personally, I know that Drupal and
most of the community apps are fairly tricky to get set up. Travis
also
could, but doesn't think the list would be happy with that. I don't
think a forum would be suitable when you have a good email list, a
wiki
is quite different.
I would suggest that it's best to get something going now, content
wise,
and so long as it's in a reasonable format (such as XHTML, which it
would be,) it could be transfered to anything later.
Tim Kilburn, Bruce Bailey and others have some great stuff they
would be
willing to contribute to get things going, so how about we get this
started now?
I could set up a group editable wiki, get some of the known content
up,
suggest a structure for the documents there, and we could have a first
draft ready in a couple of weeks. After that, I would suggest that the
list decides where to go from there.
If everything is placed under a creative commons license such as the
"Attribution-ShareAlike" one, there is nothing anyone could do to
prevent progress, or take the content without attribution to the
author:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/
My preferred implementation is PHPwiki because of the wiki syntax
(http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/), but MoinMoin
(http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/) and MediaWiki
(http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki) are other options.
If Darcy and Holly would like to take over I would be very happy to
hand
it over - for me that would be much easier than what they are
trying to
accomplish, but would help fill a temporary gap.
If I set this up, are there any objections?
Regards,
-Alastair
