Rigel wrote:
Presently the OOo initiative has several hundred if not thousands of
members. Some of them even get paid. There are a number of developers
donated by SUN Microsystems, and various user lists, language forums,
discussion dialogues and the such. This doesn't even scratch the surface
of users manual and permanent archiving needs of guides and reference
material.
Does this mean you are going to join the OOoAuthors project?
I would like to extend the idea of implementing the advantage of taking
ahold of Various OOo blogs, for different initiatives that are being
worked on for OOo, and an OOo wiki designed to provide adaptable content
to users as the software, and the communities grow.
OOoAuthors can acomodate wikis. It can also acomodate several other
tools that have good advantages over wikis. So you can use the best tool
for the job. For example, a wiki excels at cases where you have a large
collection of self-contained articles in a "flat" format. For example,
help files and encyclopedias. But for example, a user guide is a
sequential document that requires a lot more coordination than wikis
provide. Also, using OOo files allows one to use a lot of powerful tools
that are important for writing a long document (master documents,
styles, superior graphics, recording changes, etc).
For this reason, OOoAuthors uses a general-purpose CMS that can give you
wikis, or can give you file-based content management. So you can use the
best tool for each job.
This would allow
users, administrators, user support, and discuss members, as well as
various language lists to collectively share their knowledge in a
centralized, open environment.
* I found this page on WikiPedia >>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openoffice.org
The things you listed do not belong in an encyclopedia. Those are not
encyclopedic content.
* MediaWiki can be launched on a server inside sun or remotely to host
their own wiki.>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediawiki
CollabNet does not give you wikis. Trust me, I tried. The chances of
seeing a wiki on CollabNet are almost nill. This is why we went to a
different server, where we have a friendly sponsor who is happy to let
us use the tools we need.
Does anyone like these ideas? I don't see how OOo and its supporters
have anything to lose really, except maybe a few keystrokes.
I'm certainly not against it. The best way to have a good idea is to
have many ideas. If you feel motivated to try this out, please do go for
it. Though I'd encourage you to look at what's currently available at
OOoAuthors and see if it'll do.
There is one more thing to lose though: having a large number of small
websites makes each website hard to find. Having fewer, larger websites
makes them easier to find and remmeber. It's just good marketing. For
that reason, you should think about whether the benefit of the new
system you want to try is greater than the loss from adding another URL
to the pot.
I can think of one option. I could ask our sponsor if we could run
MediaWiki from our server and use our domain. Something like:
http://wiki.oooauthors.org/
And we would use links to help people navigate between the Plone site
and the Wiki site. A drawback of this is it'd make management more
difficult. But if you're willing to put in the work, I guess we could do
this.
Just thinking out loud...
Cheers,
Daniel.
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