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[Peter Green <peter AT greenpete.free>]

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Interesting stuff, cheers! :-)

Peter

On 04/12/12 21:59, Quinn Wood wrote:
> On 12/04/2012 03:19 PM, Jamyn Shanley wrote:
>> The vast majority of OpenNIC information could (should?) be put
>> on the website, and not a wiki.
>> 
> I think it's important to make the distinction between a few forms
> of communication. I was talking with a few folks about this last
> night on IRC.
> 
> A website should be the gateway from the WWW to your community or 
> project. It doesn't need to be updated frequently, because all
> specific and technical information it contains can reside on a
> wiki, and should if you have one. It should be focused more on
> introducing non-technical or uneducated (in the facets of your
> community/issues you are trying to solve through the project) than
> presenting facts. A website is a very good place to communicate
> announcements, but when you have a mailing list that can be more
> appropriate.
> 
> A wiki should be used when you want to allow collaborative editing
> of informational articles. Without commitment or responsibility
> being affixed to any given article outside what a contributor wants
> to give. This is where factual and statistical stuff goes. The fact
> that it's collaboratively edit...able? means the information is
> theoretically more likely to be kept up to date with less work by
> individual contributors.
> 
> Groupware should be used when you want to accomplish specific
> things; discrete amounts of work. This includes things like
> document and file sharing, task lists, and calendars. It can also
> include code hosting, but with all the available platforms they'd
> probably be more suited to those projects that need them, like the
> API or WHOIS code.
> 
> IRC is what it is, an instant discussion forum. It's very
> functional for meetings or uncontroversial votes, but since there's
> already a practice of using the mailing list for those, that's ok
> too.
> 
> Mailing lists, as mentioned above, are great for announcements.
> It's important not to flood all lists with news from third party
> sources and other things which don't need immediate action. That's
> great for the discuss list, but if we had an announce list, it
> wouldn't be wanted there.
> 
> Lastly, these are all ideally combined and intertwined in whatever
> way works best for people, that way you don't have to have three
> tabs open in a browser, a subscription to seven mailinglists, and
> four IRC channels open in a client just to be in the know :)
> 
> My $0.0214 (does not include S&H.)
> 
> Not all of that infrastructure exists, and implementing some of it
> may require more work than people want to commit. That's fine.
> 
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