Hi,
Two wiki pages listing ALUG members have evolved - one is a general list of people, whilst the latter is a small list of IRC nicknames -> real names. I think it makes more sense to just add the latter as a column to the former ... anyone any objections?
Relatedly, there's a big dump of people at the bottom of the Who's Where? page which has been cut and pasted from the old site. Do we want to keep this or would it be better to expect active users to re-add themselves? I could re-format the entries to the new table, but some seem pretty old ...
Anyone want to put their 2p's worth in?
Peter.
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 04:07:00PM +0100, samwise wrote:
Relatedly, there's a big dump of people at the bottom of the Who's Where? page which has been cut and pasted from the old site. Do we want to keep this or would it be better to expect active users to re-add themselves? I could re-format the entries to the new table, but some seem pretty old ...
I'd vote for starting fresh on lots of stuff, some of it is so old that bashing it into shape and making it relevant would be more trouble than starting again (imho) of course you could just steal the choice bits when doing so.
Adam
May I suggest something...
I have only recently joined ALUG mailing list and am waiting eagerly to attend my first meeting in Ipswich next month.
In my experience (both personally and commercially), I highly recommend Confluence (http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/). It is a great Wiki with loads of great features. The best bit is the Wiki Markup as its really easy to write, and better than any others I have used (i.e. BBCode etc)
They offer both Open Source or Personal licenses, that can be obtained free of charge and legally. As ALUG has no legal status, it is totally a non-profit organisation, so it can be obtained legally and free of charge).
I personally run two Confluence configurations (at work and our personal wiki), and have found it an absolute pleasure.
Check out www.javapalava.net The content is poor, but it demonstrates the product.
I'd be happy to provide hosting via my company?
Anyway, let me know your thoughts!
Cheers,
Louis
On 24/04/07, Adam Bower adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 04:07:00PM +0100, samwise wrote:
Relatedly, there's a big dump of people at the bottom of the Who's Where? page which has been cut and pasted from the old site. Do we want to keep this or would it be better to expect active users to re-add themselves? I could re-format the entries to the new table, but some seem pretty old ...
I'd vote for starting fresh on lots of stuff, some of it is so old that bashing it into shape and making it relevant would be more trouble than starting again (imho) of course you could just steal the choice bits when doing so.
Adam
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On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 08:54:03PM +0100, Louis King wrote:
In my experience (both personally and commercially), I highly recommend Confluence (http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/).
They offer both Open Source or Personal licenses, that can be obtained free of charge and legally. As ALUG has no legal status, it is totally a non-profit organisation, so it can be obtained legally and free of charge).
Anyway, let me know your thoughts!
This was discussed a bit on irc earlier but it looks _very_ non-free which isn't really something that alug would want to be promoting.
Thanks Adam
Indeed... No worries!
Louis
On 24/04/07, Adam Bower adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 08:54:03PM +0100, Louis King wrote:
In my experience (both personally and commercially), I highly recommend Confluence (http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/).
They offer both Open Source or Personal licenses, that can be obtained free of charge and legally. As ALUG has no legal status, it is totally a non-profit organisation, so it can be obtained legally and free of charge).
Anyway, let me know your thoughts!
This was discussed a bit on irc earlier but it looks _very_ non-free which isn't really something that alug would want to be promoting.
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samwise samwise@bagshot-row.org wrote: [...]
Relatedly, there's a big dump of people at the bottom of the Who's Where? page which has been cut and pasted from the old site. Do we want to keep this or would it be better to expect active users to re-add themselves? [...]
I dumped that there, to help people copy-paste current people to the table. It must have been many weeks ago, so anyone not yet copied should probably be deleted from the list.
"Louis King" l.king@in-time.co.uk wrote:
recommend Confluence (http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/). [...] offer both Open Source or Personal licenses, that can be obtained free of charge and legally.
There's an offer to license it to Open Source projects free-of-charge, with severe use restrictions. It is not an Open Source licence - it's BitKeeper-like. In fact, calling that "Atlassian Open Source Project License" looks like misleading advertising to me.
Let's keep using stuff that we can share and ALUGgers can use freely for their own sites, whatever they may be.
Thanks,
I dumped that there, to help people copy-paste current people to the table. It must have been many weeks ago, so anyone not yet copied should probably be deleted from the list.
Thanks, MJ.
I thought that might have been the reasoning behind it ... sounds like we're agreed tho that anyone who wants their details on that page will have probably entered them by now. I'll give it the rest of the day, then merge the two pages and remove the old entries tonight.
Although I, speaking only for myself, would like to see an admin make the wiki become the new front page sooner rather than later, we can always link to an archive of the old site for a while after that, if necessary.
Peter.
OK,
All information on one page now. The table could perhaps do with some optimising, but it'll do for the moment ...
Peter.
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