[TOS] Textbook Release 0.8

tosmaillist.neophyte_rep at ordinaryamerican.net tosmaillist.neophyte_rep at ordinaryamerican.net
Tue Aug 24 21:56:57 UTC 2010


2010/8/21 Karsten Wade - kwade at redhat.com:
> 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.
>

It appears to already be configured, because a few jpg files have been uploaded.

>> > 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.
>

Agreed, especially the spammer part.

>> 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. :)

Well done, Greg.




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