Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-11 Thread Jacob
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:40:22 +0200 "Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Toni Van Remortel wrote: > > > dan wrote: > >> toni, do you have a lamp/samp/xammp etc php/sql enabled server? i > >> suggest mediawiki with is pretty straight forward and easy to setup > >> and is run on

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-11 Thread dan
i will put the wiki parts in place but someone else who is more familiar with sourceforge should handle the setup of the cvs module. i do this these are all great ideas. On 10/11/07, Rodrigo Real <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi > > David Nalley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thursday 1

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-11 Thread Rodrigo Real
Hi David Nalley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday 11 October 2007 16:30:57 Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: >> backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net/>. Anyone willing to setup a sort of >> skeleton for the wiki? I think that would be a lot better than having >> a free for all and trying to fix it

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-11 Thread dan
ok, i like it. its pretty basic but that is good (KISS) i have started some preliminary edits along the lines of the structure list. i have put some of the page links on sidebar for easy navigation. On 10/11/07, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Craig Barratt wrote: > > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-11 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Craig Barratt wrote: Nils writes: I don't know if spambots know how to operatie SF wiki's yet, but I'm sure if they don't it won't be long before they do. But yeah, we can see how things go... I found the wiki at . You do need a SF.net login to edit, so I hope we are safe for now. Ah ok, g

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-11 Thread David Nalley
On Thursday 11 October 2007 16:30:57 Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: > backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net/>. Anyone willing to setup a sort of > skeleton for the wiki? I think that would be a lot better than having > a free for all and trying to fix it later. > > Nils Breunese. I agree wholeheartedly,

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-11 Thread dan
only sourceforge members may edit. that is correct On 10/11/07, Jack Coats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think only registered users can edit anyway, if I remember right. > So there is some 'social protection from vandalism. > > Yes, keeping it all in one place would be great! > > On Thu, 2007-

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-11 Thread Jack Coats
I think only registered users can edit anyway, if I remember right. So there is some 'social protection from vandalism. Yes, keeping it all in one place would be great! On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 13:23 -0700, Craig Barratt wrote: > Nils writes: > > > > http://www.wiki.sourceforge.net/ > > > > > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-11 Thread Craig Barratt
Nils writes: > I don't know if spambots know how to operatie SF wiki's yet, but I'm > sure if they don't it won't be long before they do. But yeah, we can > see how things go... I found the wiki at backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net/>. You do need a SF.net login to edit, so I hope we are safe for now

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-11 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Craig Barratt wrote: Nils writes: http://www.wiki.sourceforge.net/ (i'm not quite sure how membership/authorization work.) I think that might be the option for continuity and everything will be kept in the backuppc.sourceforge.net space. I think Craig may have to 'enable' this somehow?

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-11 Thread Craig Barratt
Nils writes: > > http://www.wiki.sourceforge.net/ > > > > (i'm not quite sure how membership/authorization work.) > > I think that might be the option for continuity and everything will > be kept in the backuppc.sourceforge.net space. I think Craig may have > to 'enable' this somehow? I like

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-11 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Paul Fox wrote: Craig Barratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't have a proposal for a hosted site. Can someone volunteer something that is sure to have a long available life? We might consider code.google.com - it provides project hosting and a Wiki but I don't know if it has the right featu

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-11 Thread Paul Fox
Craig Barratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't have a proposal for a hosted site. Can someone volunteer > something that is sure to have a long available life? We might > consider code.google.com - it provides project hosting and a Wiki > but I don't know if it has the right features. wh

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-11 Thread Craig Barratt
Dan & others, Thanks for the healthy and even-handed discussion. I agree a Wiki would be great. I don't like the idea of a forum, for many of the same reasons discussed. The key thing to make a Wiki successful is committed support from a critical mass of people. As you all know, I've never had

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-11 Thread Steen Eugen Poulsen
dan skrev: > though the joomla idea is a little provocative, i do like a wiki > better. just my opinion. > > how fine grained is mediawiki in security? can we have user levels and > be able to lock useful articles down to only have a specific level of > user able to modify it? that way the commu

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-11 Thread George Avrunin
Add my vote for a wiki but against forums George signature.asc Description: PGP signature - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-11 Thread dan
though the joomla idea is a little provocative, i do like a wiki better. just my opinion. how fine grained is mediawiki in security? can we have user levels and be able to lock useful articles down to only have a specific level of user able to modify it? that way the community can have input but

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-11 Thread Stephen Joyce
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: >> So I'm more thinking about a Joomla based site. Joomla has lots of >> Extensions that can provide structured functionality. Sure it needs a >> good basic setup, but once that is done, the info stays in that structure. > > Just as a Joomla sit

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-11 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Toni Van Remortel wrote: dan wrote: i havent research any mail list software but im sure something would integrate with ldap and i think mediawiki can use ldap so it should be feasible. im not sure if our hosting voluteer is knowledgable with ldap. i know im no pro at it! MediaWiki can ea

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-11 Thread Milos Jariabka
Steen Eugen Poulsen a écrit : > dan skrev: >> toni, do you have a lamp/samp/xammp etc php/sql enabled server? i >> suggest mediawiki with is pretty straight forward and easy to setup and >> is run on php. also phpbb is very nice for forums.. > > Wiki might be nice, but forums? Wery good idea.

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-11 Thread Toni Van Remortel
dan wrote: > i havent research any mail list software but im sure something would > integrate with ldap and i think mediawiki can use ldap so it should be > feasible. im not sure if our hosting voluteer is knowledgable with > ldap. i know im no pro at it! MediaWiki can easily be adapted to aut

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-10 Thread Steen Eugen Poulsen
dan skrev: > toni, do you have a lamp/samp/xammp etc php/sql enabled server? i > suggest mediawiki with is pretty straight forward and easy to setup and > is run on php. also phpbb is very nice for forums.. Wiki might be nice, but forums? Your just forking a community and thats never a good ide

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-10 Thread John Medway, Rim Semiconductors
A wiki could be cool, but I only visit forums if they come up on a Google hit when I am looking for info. I make an account to read things then, if I need to, and abandon it immediately after. I never use forums otherwise. At 07:42 AM 10/10/2007, Doug Lytle wrote: >dan wrote: > > i think the pr

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-10 Thread dan
i havent research any mail list software but im sure something would integrate with ldap and i think mediawiki can use ldap so it should be feasible. im not sure if our hosting voluteer is knowledgable with ldap. i know im no pro at it! On 10/10/07, Rob Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dan,

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-10 Thread Rob Owens
Dan, thanks for taking initiative on this. My vote is for a wiki and a mailing list. The mailing list should obviously keep an archive, but ideally be more searchable than the current sourceforge mailing list archive (which I find to be quite painful). If signing up for the mailing list could au

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-10 Thread dan
i have given my vote(wiki and forums = yes) but i think im done debating the issue. this is all philosophy and philosophical debates rarely change options and theirfore votes on a subject. so the next step here is probably so send a request with the possible solutions to the developers mailing li

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-10 Thread Paul Fox
les wrote: > Neither forums nor email lists are great for accumulating answers to > recurring problems in a way that others can find them. A wiki is > perfect for that but it takes some manual intervention to gather > information out of the the mail list and put it there in a more usable

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-10 Thread Ambrose Li
> I second that. Forums are exceedingly slow, and they require you to remember > to visit them. > They only look good because MS Outlook is so *bad* as a mail client, > anything else looks good by comparison. I suspect this accounts for 90% of > their popularity. I don't like forums either. But I

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-10 Thread Les Mikesell
Paul Fox wrote: > > Requires yet another thing to sign into, another place I have to go to. > > Mailing lists come to me, makes it easier to archive. When the network > > there seems to be a vacuum in the open-source world for a forum > package that properly integrates mailing list access. ya

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-10 Thread Les Mikesell
dan wrote: > true enough. > > i have to say that project growth favors a forum over a mailing list. > > i guess i believe that the project should expand to become more well > known and the obvious choice for expansion is forums. I don't think that's obvious at all. Forums are good for people

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-10 Thread David Nalley
On Wednesday 10 October 2007 11:03:50 Paul Fox wrote: > doug wrote: > > dan wrote: > > > just curious, why not visit forums? > > > > Requires yet another thing to sign into, another place I have to go to. > > Mailing lists come to me, makes it easier to archive. When the network > > there see

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-10 Thread dan
true enough. i have to say that project growth favors a forum over a mailing list. i guess i believe that the project should expand to become more well known and the obvious choice for expansion is forums. i wouldnt say im adamant about having forums and i wont fight you for it but i should at l

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-10 Thread Rob Owens
dan wrote: > im on the other side of the argument. i like forums as they are capable of > attracting people that would not want the 'full involvement' of a mailing > list. i also dont like the mixing of a mailling list and a forum, i think > they both have their place and are both very good at s

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-10 Thread Rob Owens
I think a wiki would be a definite improvement. I've seen on the list a few times where someone had a good solution to something and they needed to request that it be added to the FAQ. This puts a burden on the developers (since they seem to be the ones in control of the website) and it's not nec

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-10 Thread dan
im on the other side of the argument. i like forums as they are capable of attracting people that would not want the 'full involvement' of a mailing list. i also dont like the mixing of a mailling list and a forum, i think they both have their place and are both very good at servicing their target

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-10 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Doug Lytle wrote: dan wrote: i think the project would certainly see more support and have faster growth and improvement with a wiki and forums. just to Wiki maybe, Forums I would never visit. +1. Nils Breunese. PGP.sig Description: Dit deel van het bericht is digitaal ondertekend

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-10 Thread Paul Fox
doug wrote: > dan wrote: > > just curious, why not visit forums? > > > > Requires yet another thing to sign into, another place I have to go to. > Mailing lists come to me, makes it easier to archive. When the network there seems to be a vacuum in the open-source world for a forum package

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-10 Thread dan
oops! i never went to backuppc.com before! On 10/10/07, Toni Van Remortel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > dan wrote: > > toni, do you have a lamp/samp/xammp etc php/sql enabled server? i > > suggest mediawiki with is pretty straight forward and easy to setup > > and is run on php. also phpbb is v

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-10 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 10/10 10:43 , Doug Lytle wrote: > dan wrote: > > just curious, why not visit forums? > > > Requires yet another thing to sign into, another place I have to go to. > Mailing lists come to me, makes it easier to archive. When the network > connection or the forums are down, I can still access my

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-10 Thread Doug Lytle
dan wrote: > just curious, why not visit forums? > Requires yet another thing to sign into, another place I have to go to. Mailing lists come to me, makes it easier to archive. When the network connection or the forums are down, I can still access my archive. Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: "Th

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-10 Thread Doug Lytle
dan wrote: > i think the project would certainly see more support and have faster > growth and improvement with a wiki and forums. just to Wiki maybe, Forums I would never visit. Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety,

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-10 Thread Doug Lytle
dan wrote: > i think the project would certainly see more support and have faster > growth and improvement with a wiki and forums. just to Wiki maybe, Forums I would never visit. Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety,

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-10 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Toni Van Remortel wrote: dan wrote: toni, do you have a lamp/samp/xammp etc php/sql enabled server? i suggest mediawiki with is pretty straight forward and easy to setup and is run on php. also phpbb is very nice for forums.. Yes. I was planning on MediaWiki and phpbb :-) I thought phpBB

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-10 Thread Toni Van Remortel
dan wrote: > toni, do you have a lamp/samp/xammp etc php/sql enabled server? i > suggest mediawiki with is pretty straight forward and easy to setup > and is run on php. also phpbb is very nice for forums.. Yes. I was planning on MediaWiki and phpbb :-) > who on the backuppc project would we ne

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-10 Thread dan
toni, do you have a lamp/samp/xammp etc php/sql enabled server? i suggest mediawiki with is pretty straight forward and easy to setup and is run on php. also phpbb is very nice for forums.. who on the backuppc project would we need to talk to? have them do forums.backuppc.com also, is the back

Re: [BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-10 Thread Toni Van Remortel
dan wrote: > i think the project would certainly see more support and have faster > growth and improvement with a wiki and forums. just to throw that out > there. if someone can host it there are a few really nice wikis and > forums in php out there. very easy to setup! also, i would be > w

[BackupPC-users] wiki and forums

2007-10-10 Thread dan
i think the project would certainly see more support and have faster growth and improvement with a wiki and forums. just to throw that out there. if someone can host it there are a few really nice wikis and forums in php out there. very easy to setup! also, i would be willing to 'assist' in adm