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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