Andreas Huber
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Posted: April 26, 2009 13:33 by Andreas Huber
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I have several ideas which are not ready enought to make projects. I want to make the ideas public to see what others think about them and probably find developers and make a project together. What's needed? Mainly a forum and wiki. So creating a "special" project (like this "help" project) would be enough. The only question is: can a wiki be changed so that eyevbody can create and edit pages? What do you think about this idea? What would be a good name for this? I thought about "market", "marketplace" or "incubator"; but I'm not happy with any of these names. |
Project Marketplace
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john_brock
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Posted: April 26, 2009 17:12 by john_brock
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Keep the conversation going here, in this thread. Once there is a decision amongst a larger group of the community, I will go ahead and create the project, of whatever name the community comes up with. I will set the permissions such that everyone can create and edit wiki pages, even if they are not a member of the project itself. I will also set the Forums to have those same low level permissions so that everyone can participate without having to add themselves to the project. We will remove SCM, Issue Tracking, and Downloads from this project so that it's used as a Discussion group only. Unless of course the community would like to have any of those features added back in. We can promote this new project, with whatever name the larger community comes up with, in our Blogs, News section, and other communities that the Kenai team manages today. Beyond that, it will be a fully community run project to take where you guys want it to go. How does that sound? --jb The Project Kenai Team |
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Andreas Huber
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Posted: April 26, 2009 19:54 by Andreas Huber
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| Hey, that sounds great! |
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john_brock
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Posted: April 27, 2009 17:13 by john_brock
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Saw your post to the users alias as well. Good idea. Hopefully this thread will gain some momentum and we'll see this become reality soon. --jb |
Wes Garland
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Posted: April 27, 2009 17:47 by Wes Garland
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Hi, John; Any chance you'd be willing to make that permissions-level available on a wider basis? I have always felt that a low barrier to contribution is especially important when trying to get input from the community. For example, I don't think somebody should have to be a member of my project in order to change something on the wiki... simple project users should be able to make "drive-by" edits. My world view isn't something that I've arrived at over night, either. I've been actively involved in community creation since 1200 baud modems were the norm. I have always found that every additional level of entry-barrier (name choosing, email validation, project joining, etc) seems to shed 20-50% of possible contribution. Now, I understand that the spammers have ruined a good hunk of this - but even wikipedia can get away with anonymous editing. I think allowing anybody with a Kenai ID to edit a project wiki page would be a real boon. |
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john_brock
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Posted: April 27, 2009 17:56 by john_brock
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Default permissions for all features are listed here: http://kenai.com/projects/help/pages/Projectpermissions The project admin can set any feature permission level to what they want. Many have done exactly what you've mentioned Wes. Editing the wiki is something that needs to have a very low barrier to entry in my opinion. We just couldn't force that level on everyone though, so we set it one level higher. Currently, anyone can get that Observer role though, by just clicking on the Bookmark link on a project home page. There isn't any request required or anything like that. So it's pretty close to what you're looking for. By becoming an observer on a project it also adds it to your MyPage so that you can get back to the project more easily. Keep the conversation going here folks. It sounds like the Community Project (whatever name you folks come up with in the end) will want to have a very low permissions level on the Wiki. That would be a great start. What else? |
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Andreas Huber
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Posted: April 29, 2009 05:00 by Andreas Huber
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| What about "forum" as a project name? It's an exchange point (sorry if my english is not so good) for developers. And the forum will probably be the mainly used component. |
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