[FM Discuss] groups that are companies, one manual groups etc

[Anna Helme]

hi adam,

my first thoughts are that groups would be handy for contributors to the 
plumi project to be able to contribute documentation to the plumi 
manual, but it would be good to limit who is able to publish changes 
that are added by other people outside of this group to maintain a level 
of quality control. it would be great if anyone could contribute 
changes, but those who are members of the group have the power to 
publish/approve those changes.

but i probably don't understand group functionality in Booki to speak to 
other uses of groups... i had a quick look at the Booki user guide, but 
i didn't find a clear overview of what membership of a group gives to me 
as a member. what do you mean by communication channels? what 
rights/permissions does a group member have over books belonging to that 
group, that an ordinary user does not have?

apols, i just joined the discussion list so no doubt have missed many 
conversations on this and other topics.

cheers,
anna

On 14/12/10 8:01 PM, adam hyde wrote:
> hi all,
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> so...some questions as to what we do with groups...
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> i'd be interested in a conversation about what groups should be.
> Yesterday I wrote a little about where we want to go with them but now I
> would like to open up a conversation about how to manage these.
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> I have two points with some questions...so, first...what are peoples
> views on Groups which are dedicated to a specific software (vs a
> topic/category of software)...I would be interested to know especially
> from Zotronic and Plumi what their feeling is about this. I want to see
> cross-software collaboration occur and my feeling was that groups would
> turn into hubs for this. If you write on one software in the CMS group
> you might know something about another software in the same group and
> get in the flow of their communication channels and start contributing
> (for example)... Of course we dont yet have the tools to make this
> happen but they are coming (but perhaps this makes this conversation a
> little pre-mature). in anycase... what do you guys see as the advantage
> of having a group dedicated to just one software? interested in your
> thoughts...
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> second. what do we do with companies? Do we encourage these entities to
> put their softwares into topic categories...or are company names ok for
> group names? Personally I am unclear on this. I kind of have no problem
> with it until I feel like it is stepping over the line toward
> advertising. Granted thats a hard thing to do in this environment but
> anyways...opening this up to conversation...
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