Timothy Miller wrote:
I've seen your name around enough that I recognize you as a participant in OGP.
Not really, I'm just a loud mouth. ;-) Call me an "interested observer". I have been figuring that the wiki was not something very important to the project, which would explain its condition -- but if someone is asking "Why do we get these stats?", I feel it's appropriate to offer some criticism of the state of things, by way of explanation. I personally do not have the time and energy to fix the wiki, but I can clearly see what sort of problems it has (and yes, of course, I've been there, too).
To make it clear, although I consider it to be reasonable that I might correct factual errors on the wiki (although I'm not sure that I ever have), I don't feel any sense of personal or corporate ownership over it. The OGP is an open organization (if it's organized to be called that), and I'm just one of the many participants. As such, I have left it up to osmosis and interest from others to keep the wiki updated. I think the interested people should discuss what changes to the organization they want to make and make them (within the bounds of what Russel allows).
I *would* like to respectfully point out that if Russell doesn't feel comfortable making changes to the site, you can get free web and project services through Sourceforge (so long as you have an OSI-approved license on this, the OGP is a shoe-in to get project status), and if you want a nicer wiki, you can get a mediawiki site via "Wikia". http://sf.net http://www.wikia.com KDE is also sponsoring a collaboration and educational CMS site at: http://open-collab.net running "Moodle". I haven't had much chance to check that one out. Both have missions to support this kind of work (it's also quite trivial to link such sites together, so you don't have to choose one or the other), and are therefore free services which someone else would be responsible for maintaining. Drupal is obviously a wonderful tool, but you'd have to have someone install and maintain it, which can be too big of a job if you want to concentrate on engineering the OGC (which is what I think is the case). Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
