Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Hispano Forum on main Site

[Paul O'Malley - gnu's not unix -]

Ted Smith wrote:

Hi Ted & All,

> > Where is the person who has shown the following qualities:
> >
> > (A) a duration of support for the project, and shown to have similar aims.
> >
> > (B) a level of technical skill suitable for running this aspect of the 
> > project, some of which are to be seen in (i) and (ii) **
> > (i)Where is the person to make web to forums and forums to web work?

large typo on my part clarified in my addendum I hope ;-)

mail to forums and
forums to mail

> Could you clarify what you mean by "web"?
as above ;-)
> > (ii) Where is the person to stop spam on such forums?
>
> There's a large amount of anti-spam work for phpBB, a very widely-used
> (and free) forum program.
>
> > (C) (this is the hard part,) have the trust of the FSF to work on the 
> > hardware they donate to the project
> >
> > However if you (A) and (B) then perhaps (C) is not that hard.
> >
> > ** Proof of such an ability needs to be shown in advance because once 
> > the move is made it is very hard to say we are unhooking these 
> > technologies, thus it needs to be done right the first time to grow 
> > rather than break the project.
> > In my mind these conditions have not been fulfilled.
> >
> > Any Takers?
>
> I have not been very visible (if at all) in the gNewSense community, so
> I don't know if I have the trust needed, nor do I know if I have the
> technical skill (wrt "forums to web"). I'd gladly moderate a gNewSense
> forum, and that is not something which requires large amounts of trust
> (as moderators can be easily replaced) or skill.
Who would do the implementation, i.e. porting our existing knowledge to 
a new  format, or should we not try to merge but just populate something 
new?

As we have grown and we have amassed a lot of information, in 
consideration of this, there is a transition process to be under taken, 
there is an overhead in that process.

Part of this process is we do with the existing web site.

http://www.gnewsense.org
http://wiki.gnewsense.org/ForumMain/ForumMain,

do we split it out into this?

http://www.gnewsense.org

http://wiki.gnewsense.org

http://forums.gnewsense.org

However the URLs are worked out I use the different names to show 
different focus.

Again I ask, any takers, this is not a yes you can do it.

This is a show us you have a plan, and the ability to implement it.
This is prove to us that the consequences of doing what is proposed are 
manageable or at the very least what the project impact is.

For instance, as a result of this move do we face orphaned information, 
what is the policy to be for this information?
For instance if there is good information there do we have a rescue 
method available.

As an aside perhaps it is worthy of note that we did not know a lot 
about what we wanted when we started out, what our original design goal 
was, is really this simple, do something that does not require a full 
time management effort, there are more important freedom issues to be 
dealt with.

We (Brian and I), both objected to moving to a different wiki toolset on 
the grounds that neither of us wanted to have to spend our time patching 
the various wikis out there which seemed (three years ago) to have a lot 
of exploits.

We wanted something that was very simple, to work with, and keep up to date.

Regards,

Paul