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

[lloyd at writersglen.com]

Hello,

Well, I'm sorry, but I guess I completely misunderstood the purpose of your sites.

FLOSS looked like a terrific way to meet a pressing need of our Zotonic User Group -- get good documentation out to people who might benefit from using the open-source Zotonic CMS. 

I invested a number of hours setting up and starting work on our manual on FLOSS. Several Zotonic User Group members registered. We've been discussing how best to flesh out content since information must come from several sources.

But now you want us to reregister on a new site, move the manual (which only copied the taple of contents when I tried it), only to hear you say you really don't want our kind of project. And, moreover, I can't get access to the work I've done unless I ask you to turn login back on and manually copy out content.

Very confusing.

Please do turn on access to the old system so I can copy out our work in progres. It seems I need to find a more reliable way to meet our need. 

Thanks you.

Lloyd R. Prentice 

-----Original Message-----
From: "adam hyde" <adam at flossmanuals.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 4:01am
To: discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net
Subject: [FM Discuss] groups that are companies, one manual groups etc

hi all,

so...some questions as to what we do with groups...

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.

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...

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...


adam






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