On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 05:13:12PM +0200, Martin Honermeyer wrote: > Hello Herbert, > > > I remebered too, had a look, but got the same feeling > > as last time ... > > > > - a few mailing list cutouts > > - nothing usable yet ... > > - my name misspelled (a novity 8-) > > First of all, sorry for misspelling your name! I just > looked at the mailing list, and your mail client does > send the "�" as "oe". So I couldn't have known this, > although I am from Germany ;).
no big deal, I'm used to that (thats one reason why 'oe' is used in emails ...) > > don't get me wrong, that was the reason why I asked > > last time: "do you intend to moderate this?" > > > > I guess, the best solution would be to take Pauls > > FAQ, make it a wiki (so you'll have all the topics, > > issues and sections) and let it be edited ... > > > > (Paul, what do you think about that?) > > > > from time to time, it would be necessary to clean > > up, and or restructure, and of course some index > > or reference would be fine ... > > > > > > I'd like that site to become a central site for vserver information. > > > > I think everyone is interested in having one central place for > > > > information and tricks about vservers. The big advantage of a wiki > > > > site: everyone can add information. > > > > if I would spend a week, I could add/structure a > > lot of information there, but if I had a week for > > that, I could also write some new web pages on my > > own site ;) > > > > the real advantage of a wiki, IMHO is that the > > information can easily be revised, extended, corrected. > > but the adding of 'new' information will be as painful > > as it is without ... > > > > > This would be a good information collection site. > > > I still want to see a 'book-like' product so it can be > > > printed or downloaded into a palmtop for cover-to-cover > > > reading when not online. > > > > good idea, any suggestions how to accomplish this? > > except for printing each html page > > I really like to have Jacques' FAQ "wikified" on the site, > but won't put it in before having his personal permission. actually I was referring to Pauls FAQ not Jacques' but I guess a combination/selection of both would be advantageous/beneficial ... ask for their permission, I do not see any reason why they should not give it ... > The other thing is time. I don't have much of that at the moment. > That's one reason why I chose to make a Wiki instead of a > "normal" website. Everyone can contribute. yeah that's the basic idea, but as I know from more than one wiki sites, nobody will contribute without a good reason to do so ... > That way, everything could be built up step by step. > The idea was to grab every useful information from the mailing > list, but to keep a useful structure. which actually is where? sorry, I don't see any useful structure, please enlighten me ... > I don't want it to stay like this, with extracts simply copied > from the list. One could easily change those extracts into > mini-tutorials. who will do that? Jacques? Paul? me? > That has to be done. By anyone. The problem is, if no one aids, > the site may always lag behind the times. > > > best, > > Herbert > > > Greets, > Martin
