On Monday 23 August 2010 07:20:19 Bryen M. Yunashko wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 10:30 +0900, Satoru Matsumoto wrote:
> > Well, a little bit off topic, though...
> > 
> > (2010/08/22 23:22), Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> > 
> > > I would do the following: Set up an etherpad (piratepad) with the
> > > index you just wrote, and put other piratepad addresses with each
> > > chaptor behind the index. (create those, obviously, as well).
> > >
> > > Then just announce it. Ask ppl to first find content on the web for
> > > each of those. Is there an installation guide on installing
> > > openSUSE? Trow in the link in that piratepad. Once we have a few, we
> > > can use the content to write for the course.
> > 
> > Hmmm, Jos seems to like EtherPad. So do I. ;-)
> > 
> > Since EtherPad itself was bought by Google and the source code has been
> > opened, many EtherPad clone sites have been replicated. Among those
> > clones, I'd recommend iEtherPad.
> > http://ietherpad.com/
> > 
> > Unlike other EtherPad clones, iEtherPad allows you to create your own
> > team site, like *opensuse-foo.ietherpad.com*. Besides, you can create a
> > pad and give it the name you want (on most of the other EtherPad clone
> > sites, a random pad name is generated by the system when you create a
> > new pad and you have to use it anyway).
> > 
> > We, openSUSE Weekly News Japanese Translation team, are now using
> > iEtherPad for translating OWN. The name of the team site is
> > ownja.ietherpad.com (ownja = *o*penSUSE *W*eekly *N*ews *Ja*panese) and
> > you can see for example our work on iEtherPad at:
> > http://ownja.ietherpad.com/136
> > # This is the pad for translating OWN issue 136 into Japanese.
> > 
> > Although iEthrePad is run by an individual and has some minor problems,
> > these advantages are tempting. If you like EtherPad and haven't tried
> > iEtherPad yet, I strongly recommend you to use it. ;-)
> > 
> The "run by an individual" gives me pause.  But overall, I'd like to see
> some team consolidation thing going on for these services.  Jos has
> surely thrown quite a few etherpads and piratepads at me and frankly, as
> cool as the tool is for collaboration, it's getting dicey keeping track
> of them all.  I just don't know how that Jos genius does it.   :-)

Unfortunately I'm not as smart as you think I am, which is why I'm trying to 
convince somebody to set up an etherpad server @ opensuse. This will give us a 
nice list of open pads, you can give them names and you have some access 
control. In other words - much better for Bryen's and similar animals.
 
> 
> 
> > Best,
> > 
> 
> 
> 

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