On Apr 29, 2008, at 1:37 PM, Vincent Massol wrote: > Hi everyone, > > A few months ago we had discussed the possibility of offering a free > community-managed farm for non-business critical projects. > See http://tinyurl.com/69blgy > > In short the ideas are: > > 1) No support guarantee. All support done on the xwiki.org user > mailing list by the community. > 2) No stability guarantee. We would always install the latest > Platform/XE/XEM version on it and it would serve as a stability test > for the xwiki development team. Obviously the community will always > try to > make it as stable as possible but that's not guaranteed. It's also > possible that the farm will be down a few days now and then. We'll > try to reduce this but no warranties. > 3) There will be several members of the community who'll have admin > access on the farm. > 4) It will be open to anyone. However the target users will be > technical people who can support themselves to some extent. We > won't control that but it'll be mentioned on the registration page. > In any case points 1) and 2) make it obvious that it shouldn't be > used for any business-critical wiki. > > We're now announcing the myxwiki.org community farm at http://myxwiki.org > > Note that the machine was donated by the XPertNet company (http://xwiki.com > ). Thanks XPertNet! :) > > Right now the following persons are admin on this farm: > * ThomasMortagne > * Marta > * Sergiu > * GuillaumeLerouge > * amelentev (Artem) > * Jerome Velociter > * jvdrean (Jean-Vincent) > * VincentMassol > > Please note that all these people are doing this in their free time > and thus we're looking for more admins. If you're interested in > helping us manage this farm (and we hope there'll be plenty of you > interested) then please register a user and let me know and I'll > make you admin. > > Here's what admins should do: > * work on improving the community farm content in general > * work on improving the way information is presented and navigation > * watch the recent changes and undo graffitis where needed > * create wikis for people who request them (there's a HTML form to > fill) - we'll need to decide if we want to make that self service or > not. Right now I suggest that people interested in getting a wiki > there send an email to the xwiki users list explaining what they > want to do with their new wiki and then one admin creates it for them. > * watch out for security holes > * suggest ideas to improve the farm > > What everyone can do: > * edit and improve content for the non admins parts of the farm > * spread the word, blog about it, etc
So nobody is interested in helping out? Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
