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

[joachim heintz]

hi adam -

some thoughts about groups. i think there are different functions of  
groups:
1) for the READER:
a) orientation for anyone who is looking for manuals/textbooks, for  
instance: "where can i find manuals about creating audio."
b) to discover what is also in the group: "i've heart about a csound  
manual there, and when i looked i saw pd is here, too. i didn't know  
this before."
2) for the WRITER:
as you said: possible collaboration, having a look how others do  
similar things, etc.

i think at the moment, for both readers and writers:
1. groups are too small. for audio, there is one group "Audio Editing"  
consisting of Audacity and Ardour, and one group "Signal  
Processing" (which is very technical and in the context of the fm not  
very lucky, i think: perhaps better "Audio Programming"?), consisting  
of PureData, Csound, Chuck (?). As far as I know audio oss, there are  
more projects, but not that much. at the moment, i think, ONE audio  
group would be better. if we go beyond a dozen or so manuals, we could  
perhaps arrange subgroups.
2. if we think about collaboration and new ideas, they are not just  
found in the "own" group. for instance, you can work with csound AND  
processing. or with csound AND the command line. how can these cross- 
connections be encouraged, at least kind of "see also ..."?

one major decision in your mail yesterday is "a book/manual can only  
belong to one group". this is probably very reasonable to avoid a race  
(whose manual is in most groups). but perhaps there can be a kind of  
hints or soft links from any group to a manual in another group, to  
encourage cross-relations?

	joachim




Am 14.12.2010 um 10:01 schrieb adam hyde:

> 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...
>
>
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