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

[adam]

On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 07:36 -0500, Andy Oram wrote:
> It's also unclear to me whether the founder of a group can control who 
> joins the group. 

i dont think this will ever be the case. however it would be possible to
block people in the case of abuse

> 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 in the case where internal employees want to work on something
they download and install their own booki as James has done...

> 
> 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.

hehe...the beginning of FM wars! I hope not! ;)



adam

> 
> 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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