I am all for maintaining our permanent record on the Wiki, although I think we do this anyway don't we? I am also a fan of how the current board is sending minutes out. I am pretty agnostic as far as format is concerned, but agree that plain text is probably the simplest.
On 11 March 2014 11:40, Ron <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey folks, > > There has been a lot of complaining on the lists lately about document > formats and such, so I thought I'd make a new thread for it. > > In the past week, me and Nathan updated the various wiki pages related > to the election. Me and Mak used to do this, but neither of us are on > the board now so I'd appreciate it if the current board could take over > responsibility for tracking our history on the wiki. It's our only real > historical record. > > More importantly, I've noticed Word docs going around lately. I don't > know where that came from, but unless we're also installing Sharepoint > or something similar, I think this is a bad, bad idea. Word offers no > way to collaborate, version, share, and link other than attaching to > emails and arguing about who has the most recent version. > > Plus, using commercial products is very non-hackery. I'd even call it > mildly embarrassing. *MY* SkullSpace using .docx? OMGZ!? :) > > Anyway, I *highly* recommend using the wiki for this sort of thing. If > there's some reason we stopped using the wiki, then let's tackle that (I > can install new plugins or whatever if that's the issue) or let's look > for a different solution. If we need professional looking documents, we > can copy stuff from the wiki into a .docx when needed. > > Much to the chagrin of others, I brought up Google Docs in the other > thread. Yes, it's the company I work for. I think the wiki is a much > better solution, but Docs has the collaboration/sharing/etc that Word > lacks, and is also open to all (with a Google account). We also use > Google Calendar, so if somebody is willing to take the time to set > everything up, we can use the full ecosystem. But I still think the Wiki > is the way to go. > > So yeah, please use this thread to discuss this sorta thing. And if you > *do* decide that .docx is the most hackery format, then be prepared for > me to complain every time I see it on the list. :P > > Ron > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ > -- *Nathan T. Wild*
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