On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:32, Peter Froehlich <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Chris Tyler <[email protected]> wrote: >> I think that what you propose is the opposite of a neutral meeting >> place. > > I think this is a matter of degrees rather than extremes.
I am inclined to agree with Peter. > be painful and unproductive. But if certain pages tell me that O is > running this for reason Y, that I find totally okay. I agree. > "dictator" of POSSE on TOS, that would be bad. Not sure I am > expressing this right, but maybe someone catches my drift and can say > it more clearly. :-D I don't know that I can say it more clearly, but I can say this: As an untenured member of the faculty, I have to be able to include a URL in my yearly evaluations and say "these pages are where 20 Allegheny students did work at the intersection of computing and community service." Those pages must clearly communicate that Allegheny was involved to a non-technical audience. If I cannot take some credit for my work, and the work of my students, then it is unlikely that I will use shared infrastructure like TOS. But, to be clear, I'm not really sure what TOS is for. I've only ever used the wiki to create a bio page (as part of a POSSE exercise), and to comment on a few things that Mel and others have put up (but I don't know that anyone read the comments I added to those pages). The mailing list, as far as I can tell, is the only resource I've really ever used. Making it clearer what TOS is for would help us to better define how it should/should not be used. Cheers, Matt _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
