[TOS] Textbook Release 0.8

Karsten Wade kwade at redhat.com
Sat Aug 21 18:35:42 UTC 2010


On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:12:39AM -0700, tosmaillist.neophyte_rep at ordinaryamerican.net wrote:
> 
> I don't see "early and often" as being in conflict with "better or
> perfect location".  I think it indicates the project may not, yet,
> have an adequate infrastructure.  As has been previously discussed, we
> can readily add content to our personal User: space in the wiki.  It
> would seem to me, we need a controlled space to upload or save
> non-wiki files.

We probably can upload some classes of files directly to the wiki;
that can be configured, if it helps.

> > That said :) this is clearly something we can fix and make the
> > branding better and reduce confusion.
> >
> > Chris - can I get shell access or something?  I'm thinking of:
> >
> 
> I haven't used it yet, but how is Wikimedia Commons implemented?  What
> are the other possibilities?  A Content Management System, perhaps?
> I'm trying to think of how we make it easy for non-*nix proficient
> participants to add files to the project domain.  Shell access assumes
> knowledge of File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and directory construction
> commands like mkdir, and so forth.  Our Subject Matter Experts (SMEs),
> teachers in our case, are not all going to be proficient.

We can probably do this with the wiki's internal system.  You upload a
file through the wiki, where it gets a wiki page name that is a
pointer to a file resource.

Our challenge is going to be around i) setting a useful list of file
types (by file extension, usually), and ii) resolving our spammer
account problem so the file uploads aren't abused.

> By the way, did you rename the "Teaching Open Source textbook" as
> "Practical Open Source Software Exploration" so it would be more
> readily associated with the "Professors' Open Source Summer
> Experience"?  Quite clever branding, if you did, I say.

You can lay the entirety of that cleverness at the feet of Greg
DeKoenigsberg; he created both names and acronyms.  While it's the
main reason I don't abbreviate the textbook as "POSSE", I agree that
it is quite the nice branding bundle. :)

- Karsten
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