Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: OpenSolaris Articles Project

2006-01-30 Thread Jim Grisanzio
The OpenSolaris Content Project is open: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/content/ Sign up to content-discuss here: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/content/discussions/ Jim ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: OpenSolaris Articles Project -- Wikimedia

2006-01-24 Thread Al Hopper
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Christopher Mahan wrote: > > > --- Jim Grisanzio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I like the idea of wikis in general, and several people have > > mentioned > > this in other areas. Priorities for the website right now, though, > > are > > focused on getting support for source

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: OpenSolaris Articles Project

2006-01-24 Thread Al Hopper
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Ben Rockwood wrote: > To be formal > > Speaking on behalf of myself, with the honorable Docs community in > mind, I do hereby Second the proposal forwarded by Mr Grisanzio from the > Great State of California. > > Great idea Jim. This is something the docs community has

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: OpenSolaris Articles Project

2006-01-24 Thread Brendan Gregg
G'Day Folks, On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Alan Hargreaves wrote: > I've just gone through this thread. So have I. I can see the difference between an Articles project and a Documentation community, and so far I think it makes sense for them to be seperate. Of course, we'll have a better idea once we hav

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: OpenSolaris Articles Project

2006-01-23 Thread Alan Hargreaves
I've just gone through this thread. The things that I have taken to heart are Jim wrote >> Initially, the project will provide support for community members >> interested in writing, editing, and reviewing OpenSolaris content for >> the Articles page: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/articles/. The

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: OpenSolaris Articles Project

2006-01-23 Thread Ben Rockwood
To be formal Speaking on behalf of myself, with the honorable Docs community in mind, I do hereby Second the proposal forwarded by Mr Grisanzio from the Great State of California. Great idea Jim. This is something the docs community has wanted very much to do but the rubber hadn't quite

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: OpenSolaris Articles Project

2006-01-23 Thread Michelle Olson
forts to create a template for technical articles, so maybe that would be useful to your project? It is .eps file of the logo that fits nicely on a title page. Thanks, Michelle >Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:01:55 -0800 >From: Jim Grisanzio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [os

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: OpenSolaris Articles Project

2006-01-23 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
On 1/23/06, Jim Grisanzio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ignacio Marambio Catán wrote: > > On 1/23/06, Ignacio Marambio Catán <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>sorry i meant to send the following to the list but i mailed it to Jim > >>directly instead :P I will paste the contents of the mail unchang

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: OpenSolaris Articles Project

2006-01-23 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Ignacio Marambio Catán wrote: On 1/23/06, Ignacio Marambio Catán <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: sorry i meant to send the following to the list but i mailed it to Jim directly instead :P I will paste the contents of the mail unchanged for everyone to see most of the ideas I had for the project wer

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: OpenSolaris Articles Project

2006-01-23 Thread Stephen Hahn
I've seen a couple of points following the "Articles" project proposal that appear to require clarification. 1. The Articles project proposal is proposing a project, not a community, and therefore follows the project proposal process. This process means that the proposal m

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: OpenSolaris Articles Project

2006-01-23 Thread Christopher Mahan
--- Jim Grisanzio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I totally agree that we need a lightweight process. However, I'm > more > concerned, at least initially, with finding people who are writers, > or > people who have technical knowledge but who don't want to write, or > > reviewers, or editors, or

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: OpenSolaris Articles Project -- Wikimedia

2006-01-23 Thread Christopher Mahan
--- Jim Grisanzio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I like the idea of wikis in general, and several people have > mentioned > this in other areas. Priorities for the website right now, though, > are > focused on getting support for source code management, so I doubt > we can > implement a wiki in

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: OpenSolaris Articles Project

2006-01-23 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
On 1/23/06, Ignacio Marambio Catán <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sorry i meant to send the following to the list but i mailed it to Jim > directly instead :P I will paste the contents of the mail unchanged > for everyone to see > > most of the ideas I had for the project were already brought up in t

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: OpenSolaris Articles Project

2006-01-23 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
sorry i meant to send the following to the list but i mailed it to Jim directly instead :P I will paste the contents of the mail unchanged for everyone to see most of the ideas I had for the project were already brought up in this thread. my main concerns are: *how are we going to deal with the ov

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: OpenSolaris Articles Project

2006-01-23 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Michelle Olson wrote: Hi Jim, Can you give some more details about what the 'online lab for writers' would include? Anyone who is interested in producing content about OpenSolaris for any venue out there. I can help a certain type of writer on some things, I want to write some things mysel

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: OpenSolaris Articles Project

2006-01-23 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Alan DuBoff wrote: That sounds like a good idea. Thanks ... and I know you had some good ideas for content generation as well, so you are one guy I need involved. :) Kick the ideas around here if you want. Jim -- Jim Grisanzio, Community Manager, OpenSolaris http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/ _

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: OpenSolaris Articles Project

2006-01-23 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Venky wrote: This proposed Articles Project would develop the necessary processes for article generation and solicit contributors. We'd have to decide what content is needed, who'd write/edit/produce that content, how it would be reviewed for accuracy, in what form it would be published, and wh

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: OpenSolaris Articles Project -- Wikimedia

2006-01-23 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Christopher Mahan wrote: --- Venky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I totally agree. How about a simple Mediawiki installation with global edit privileges? Something like this: http://opensolaris.wikicities.com/ It's not hard to put mediawiki on a server to have your own installation. Then th

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: OpenSolaris Articles Project

2006-01-23 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Saturday 21 January 2006 11:49 am, Jim Grisanzio wrote: > OpenSolaris Articles Project That sounds like a good idea. -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.or

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: OpenSolaris Articles Project

2006-01-23 Thread Michelle Olson
nzio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: OpenSolaris Articles Project >To: Ben Rockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >MIME-version: 1.0 >Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT >X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ja >User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: OpenSolaris Articles Project

2006-01-23 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Ben Rockwood wrote: I think this is duplication. There already exists at Documentation community, such an effort should be coordinated through that effort. An articles project is fine, but it should be done in lock step with the OpenSolaris Docs team. benr. Well, it doesn't have to be du

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: OpenSolaris Articles Project

2006-01-23 Thread Ben Rockwood
Jim Grisanzio wrote: Here is a proposal to form a project to produce article content for opensolaris.org. OpenSolaris Articles Project Community members have been asking if they can write articles for opensolaris.org and what the process would be to produce those articles. Yes, we'd love th

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: OpenSolaris Articles Project -- Wikimedia

2006-01-23 Thread Christopher Mahan
--- Venky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I totally agree. How about a simple Mediawiki installation with > global edit privileges? Something like this: > http://opensolaris.wikicities.com/ It's not hard to put mediawiki on a server to have your own installation. Then the stylesheets can be cus

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: OpenSolaris Articles Project

2006-01-23 Thread Venky
That's really neat! > > We could develop all kinds of community-wide content, including > > feature articles, community profiles, technical articles, > > commentaries, and Q&As. Over time, the project could expand the > > Articles page to include more multi-media content such as > > artwork, podca

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: OpenSolaris Articles Project

2006-01-21 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 1/21/06, Jim Grisanzio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is a proposal to form a project to produce article content for > opensolaris.org. > > OpenSolaris Articles Project Now this is a really good idea ! . . . > We could develop all kinds of community-wide content, including feature > arti

[osol-discuss] Proposal: OpenSolaris Articles Project

2006-01-21 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Here is a proposal to form a project to produce article content for opensolaris.org. OpenSolaris Articles Project Community members have been asking if they can write articles for opensolaris.org and what the process would be to produce those articles. Yes, we'd love the content, and no, there