Re: toward community-ruled website ? (was Re: [Cooker] The Mandrake Audio Workstation)

2003-03-10 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 10 March 2003 08:26 am, Buchan Milne wrote: > Greg Meyer wrote: > > On Sunday 09 March 2003 06:50 pm, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > > > > I am saying that if the domain is no longer going to be used (it has > > disappeared from the Official Mandrake web page headers) it could be > > repurpose

Re: toward community-ruled website ? (was Re: [Cooker] The Mandrake Audio Workstation)

2003-03-10 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Monday 10 March 2003 14:26, Buchan Milne wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Greg Meyer wrote: > > On Sunday 09 March 2003 06:50 pm, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > > > > I am saying that if the domain is no longer going to be used (it has > > disappeared from the Official Man

Re: toward community-ruled website ? (was Re: [Cooker] The Mandrake Audio Workstation)

2003-03-10 Thread Michael Scherer
Le Lundi 10 Mars 2003 14:26, El Gringo ( aka Buchan Milne ) a écrit : > Of course, it would have to be decided which documentation (all, none, > some?) would be available only to club members. But it could be > something along the lines that all cooker/bug testing etc docs are free, > really good

Re: toward community-ruled website ? (was Re: [Cooker] The Mandrake Audio Workstation)

2003-03-10 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Monday 10 March 2003 07:04, James Sparenberg wrote: > > If it's going to have a wiki which I'm all for I recommend TWiki.. We > use it internally at my company... Why ... Stability reliability and the > ability to do skins / private webs. It can do multiple webs within the > web as well as ha

Re: toward community-ruled website ? (was Re: [Cooker] The Mandrake Audio Workstation)

2003-03-10 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 11:45, Robert L Martin wrote: > Maybe mandrakesoft.com could drop mandrake.org domain name in favor of such > project ? > > or maybe a "gentlemens agreement" to not bother a domain name with the letters > DRAK

Re: toward community-ruled website ? (was Re: [Cooker] The Mandrake Audio Workstation)

2003-03-09 Thread Chad
> On Sunday 09 March 2003 06:03 pm, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > > Maybe mandrakesoft.com could drop mandrake.org domain name in favor of > > such project ? > > How about the old MandrakeUser.org? what about http://www.mandrakeusers.org it's already an unofficial community site with howtos, Forum

Re: toward community-ruled website ? (was Re: [Cooker] The Mandrake Audio Workstation)

2003-03-09 Thread Sascha Noyes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 March 2003 19:32, Austin wrote: > The wiki is cool, but there is something to be said for: > autonomy > simple domain name > official status > > Austin I agree with you on all of those points. The ideal solution would be for mandrake to

Re: toward community-ruled website ? (was Re: [Cooker] The Mandrake Audio Workstation)

2003-03-09 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Monday 10 March 2003 01:00, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Sunday 09 March 2003 06:50 pm, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > > Le Lundi 10 Mars 2003 00:29, Greg Meyer a écrit : > > > On Sunday 09 March 2003 06:03 pm, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > > > > Maybe mandrakesoft.com could drop mandrake.org domain name in fa

Re: toward community-ruled website ? (was Re: [Cooker] The Mandrake Audio Workstation)

2003-03-09 Thread Austin
The wiki is cool, but there is something to be said for: autonomy simple domain name official status Austin -- Austin Acton Hon.B.Sc. Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching Assistant Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto Mandrak

Re: toward community-ruled website ? (was Re: [Cooker] The Mandrake Audio Workstation)

2003-03-09 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Monday 10 March 2003 00:03, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > I really think than we (the community) should instead try to build our own > website, who could act as a reference point for the many documentation > efforts going on: > - this howto Wouldn't be the wiki the best place for it ? > - the co

Re: toward community-ruled website ? (was Re: [Cooker] The Mandrake Audio Workstation)

2003-03-09 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 09 March 2003 06:50 pm, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > Le Lundi 10 Mars 2003 00:29, Greg Meyer a écrit : > > On Sunday 09 March 2003 06:03 pm, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > > > Maybe mandrakesoft.com could drop mandrake.org domain name in favor of > > > such project ? > > > > How about the old Ma

Re: toward community-ruled website ? (was Re: [Cooker] The Mandrake Audio Workstation)

2003-03-09 Thread Austin
On 2003.03.09 18:50 Guillaume Rousse wrote: > How about the old MandrakeUser.org? I really think this is _the_ ultimate documentation source for mandrake, but in englihs only, which make it useless for non-english speaking newbies. But very dated. We just need to find how to host such a site (firs

Re: toward community-ruled website ? (was Re: [Cooker] The Mandrake Audio Workstation)

2003-03-09 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Le Lundi 10 Mars 2003 00:29, Greg Meyer a écrit : > On Sunday 09 March 2003 06:03 pm, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > > Maybe mandrakesoft.com could drop mandrake.org domain name in favor of > > such project ? > > How about the old MandrakeUser.org? I really think this is _the_ ultimate documentation so

Re: toward community-ruled website ? (was Re: [Cooker] The Mandrake Audio Workstation)

2003-03-09 Thread Austin
On 2003.03.09 18:03 Guillaume Rousse wrote: Maybe mandrakesoft.com could drop mandrake.org domain name in favor of such project ? (at this point, Acton begins to salivate wildly...) :-) Austin -- Austin Acton Hon.B.Sc. Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching Assis

Re: toward community-ruled website ? (was Re: [Cooker] The Mandrake Audio Workstation)

2003-03-09 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 09 March 2003 06:03 pm, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > > Maybe mandrakesoft.com could drop mandrake.org domain name in favor of such > project ? How about the old MandrakeUser.org? -- Greg

toward community-ruled website ? (was Re: [Cooker] The Mandrake Audio Workstation)

2003-03-09 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Le Dimanche 9 Mars 2003 23:40, Austin a écrit : > On 2003.03.09 17:13 Michael Scherer wrote: > > Hum, and they will deny that plf is in urpmi.setup ? > > Urpmi.setup is in contribs, was written by a non-employee, and the binary > has absolutely no mention of PLF. In fact, removing PLF from the sou