[Tfug] Our website: Round three

[Jeremy D Rogers]

On 4/27/07, Claude Rubinson <rubinson at u.arizona.edu> wrote:
> With all of this talk about the website, I decided to take a look at
> it and there are two errors on the home page that really need to be
> corrected.
[snip]

This is why I'm a big fan of some static pages (that cannot be changed
by wiki authors) with useful content like links to the mailing list
archives, but contain no dates, times, or meeting information that is
likely to change frequently or even infrequently. Even better, it
could say something like "check this wiki entry: <link> for up-to-date
meeting times and location". Then the wiki could be kept up-to-date by
all TFUGgers or just a select few who are given the keys to dad's
truck.

That said, I don't really know how much maintenance a wiki would
require, so if it turns out to require weekly cleaning or requires too
much storage space, then I could see that as a bad thing. But if it is
treated a just a better way to organize (and keep organized)  the kind
info that flies past the list in a more serial fashion, then that
could be great. There are lots of brainless posts on this list and
I've contributed plenty to that category, but there are also lots of
really great threads with very useful info. It's not hard to search
for that info in the archives, but I could see even better
possibilities with a wiki where 'threads' could be updated and kept
more relevant when someone gets the inspiration.

As for taking the conversation 'off-line' into private backwaters, I'm
opposed. We all are fans of open source here, and I think the website
mods should be 'open' in a similar way. If someone is annoyed about
all the traffic regarding the website, it's pretty easy to ignore
threads so let's move on. The advantage is that those who do care
enough to follow the thread and chime in can. Let's keep that up.

JDR