On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:12:39AM -0700, [email protected] wrote: > > I don't see "early and often" as being in conflict with "better or > perfect location". I think it indicates the project may not, yet, > have an adequate infrastructure. As has been previously discussed, we > can readily add content to our personal User: space in the wiki. It > would seem to me, we need a controlled space to upload or save > non-wiki files.
We probably can upload some classes of files directly to the wiki; that can be configured, if it helps. > > That said :) this is clearly something we can fix and make the > > branding better and reduce confusion. > > > > Chris - can I get shell access or something? I'm thinking of: > > > > I haven't used it yet, but how is Wikimedia Commons implemented? What > are the other possibilities? A Content Management System, perhaps? > I'm trying to think of how we make it easy for non-*nix proficient > participants to add files to the project domain. Shell access assumes > knowledge of File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and directory construction > commands like mkdir, and so forth. Our Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), > teachers in our case, are not all going to be proficient. We can probably do this with the wiki's internal system. You upload a file through the wiki, where it gets a wiki page name that is a pointer to a file resource. Our challenge is going to be around i) setting a useful list of file types (by file extension, usually), and ii) resolving our spammer account problem so the file uploads aren't abused. > By the way, did you rename the "Teaching Open Source textbook" as > "Practical Open Source Software Exploration" so it would be more > readily associated with the "Professors' Open Source Summer > Experience"? Quite clever branding, if you did, I say. You can lay the entirety of that cleverness at the feet of Greg DeKoenigsberg; he created both names and acronyms. While it's the main reason I don't abbreviate the textbook as "POSSE", I agree that it is quite the nice branding bundle. :) - Karsten -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener team: Red Hat Community Architecture uri: http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki gpg: AD0E0C41
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