[OSGeo-Board] Re: OSGeo-Board Local Chapters, Translation, etc

[Arnulf Christl (CCGIS)]

> Gary Lang wrote:
>> Frank,
>>
>> I too can't follow discussions on a Wiki as well as a mailing list.
>> People need to be able to easily search for old messages and follow
>> threads. Mailing lists and indexed archives for them are a proven
>> approach.
>>
>> I really think it's bad for the foundation to have a diffuse
>> communication strategy like this. Our communications need to be targeted
>> and easy to find. Moving some to a Wiki not at our domain and some to
>> mailing lists is a bad move in terms of promoting our visibility. Put
>> more technically: we want the Google site: qualifier to be really useful
>> to people.
>
> Gary,
>
> This suggests to me that we should push forward moving the wiki properly
> into the osgeo.org domain rather than discouraging it's use.

+5 from Arnuf ;-)

Though
> doing so does, I think, mean we have to be more careful about
> distinguishing
> what is a foundation position vs. the idle musings of one or two
> individuals.

Change the background color of the Wiki to bright red and say
"xperimental", NO WARRANTY FOR ANY CONTENT!

Arnulf.

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