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

[Andy Oram]

It's also unclear to me whether the founder of a group can control who 
joins the group. I don't see any problem with a company forming a "Red 
Hat" group that anyone can join. If FM turns into a strategy site for 
internal use of company employees, I'm a bit bothered--but maybe that's 
OK too.

I think groups may sometimes have to expel hard-to-manage members. But 
groups that control membership could also become cliques and lead to the 
spawning of rival groups.

Andy

On 12/14/2010 06:46 AM, Anna Helme wrote:
> 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?
>

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