Given their deep pockets, skills, and aggressive posture, I can readily imagine that Google's Groups could become better than existing forum software. Maybe the CZ editors would now or eventually prefer Google Groups. The various Google tools are steadily being integrated into a concerted suite of tools. So I wouldn't dismiss Google Groups out of hand, as you appear to have done for us. They certainly have been working nicely for me, and they're getting better all the time.
- Bob Futrelle On 11/1/06, Larry Sanger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, we'll have either forums or mailing lists for all editorial workgroups. > We'll decide on cz-editors later this week. > > --Larry > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > Bob Futrelle > > Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 12:16 AM > > To: Jochen Wendebaum > > Cc: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [Citizendium-l] A wiki challenge > > > > > > Google Groups, perhaps? > > > > - Bob > > > > On 11/1/06, Jochen Wendebaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 06:06:50 +0100, Larry Sanger > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > A third solution: have editorial workgroups organize large-scale > > > > "attacks" on sets of articles. For this we must actually get > > > > citizendium-editors started. I don't want to do that until we've > > > > gone through the editor applications, and we're not even halfway > > > > through; there's around 130 still left to go through. > > Everyone that > > > > we invite to become editors will also be invited to join > > > > citizendium-editors. > > > > > > I like this idea best. Having small "work groups" of editors, > > > separated by interest and working field, and splitting into more > > > specific topics if the group becomes too large would be a > > good start > > > to create a community (well, at first many small > > communities). Inside > > > these work groups, people can discuss and select topics to work on > > > cooperatively. > > > > > > My suggestion would be to create - maybe in the forum - > > several areas > > > of interest where the authors and editors can work > > together, discuss > > > and decide things without messing with filtering all the > > > "not-so-interesting"-topics out (these topics are different > > for each > > > individual, of course). There can then be discussed and > > decided about > > > the "attacks" you mentioned, Larry. > > > > > > So the way would be IMHO > > > 1. start the editors mailinglist to let people find others in their > > > area of interest 2. make some place where these people can discuss > > > without being interrupted and without interrupting others in other > > > areas > > > > > > Kind regards, > > > > > > Jochen Wendebaum > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ > > > Citizendium-l mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l > > > > > > > > > -- > > Robert P. Futrelle > > Associate Professor > > Biological Knowledge Laboratory > > College of Computer and Information Science > > Northeastern University MS WVH202 > > 360 Huntington Ave. > > Boston, MA 02115 > > > > Office: (617)-373-4239 > > Fax: (617)-373-5121 > > http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/futrelle > > http://www.bionlp.org > > http://www.diagrams.org > > _______________________________________________ > > Citizendium-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Robert P. Futrelle Associate Professor Biological Knowledge Laboratory College of Computer and Information Science Northeastern University MS WVH202 360 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115 Office: (617)-373-4239 Fax: (617)-373-5121 http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/futrelle http://www.bionlp.org http://www.diagrams.org _______________________________________________ Citizendium-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
