CentOS docs - Oct 2006 - howto's and docs from the forums

hi guys,

just spent 20 minutes looking through the forums on the website, and it 
seems people are posting howtos and walkthoughs there.

whats the general feeling ? is it worth getting in touch with the 
authors and seeing if they would like to maintain them on the wiki 
instead ?

I know some of them are really mad and we wont / dont want to highlight 
them too much ( like, gnome-2.16 hacked into a centos-4 machine! ), but 
there do seem to be a few good ones there too.

opinions ?

- KB
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Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq

Karanbir Singh wrote:
> whats the general feeling ? is it worth getting in touch with the 
> authors and seeing if they would like to maintain them on the wiki 
> instead ?
If they're worth it - sure. 
> I know some of them are really mad and we wont / dont want to highlight 
> them too much ( like, gnome-2.16 hacked into a centos-4 machine! ), but 
> there do seem to be a few good ones there too.
> 
> opinions ?
All for it. 

What we also could use is a link to the wiki from www.centos.org
(Calling Mr. Nelson! Mr. Nelson!) ... 

Cheers,

Ralph
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> just spent 20 minutes looking through the forums on the website, and it
> seems people are posting howtos and walkthoughs there.
>
> whats the general feeling ? is it worth getting in touch with the
> authors and seeing if they would like to maintain them on the wiki
> instead ?
Sounds useful for howtos that are worth it.
> opinions ?
Something that may be important in the longer run: do we ask that people
provide content under a specific license? At this point in time it is
still possible to add such requirement, it would be more difficult to do
it retroactively.

-- Daniel

Hi folks,

Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:
> whats the general feeling ? is it worth getting in touch with the 
> authors and seeing if they would like to maintain them on the wiki 
> instead ?
>
> I know some of them are really mad and we wont / dont want to highlight 
> them too much ( like, gnome-2.16 hacked into a centos-4 machine! ), but 
> there do seem to be a few good ones there too.
I say yes, if the information is deemed useful (and "sane" :-))
enough.

Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de> wrote:
> What we also could use is a link to the wiki from www.centos.org
> (Calling Mr. Nelson! Mr. Nelson!) ... 
You mean there isn't one? Bu all means, let's put one up ASAP...

danieldk at pobox.com wrote:
> Attribution-ShareAlike is a pretty fine license, in the same spirit as the
> GPL. Though, the GFDL may me a good option too (this is what Wikipedia
> uses):
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html
I say the GFDL is more appropriate, and it's more consistent with the rest
of the CentOS project: a GPL operating system ought to have a GFDL Wiki...

Best Regards,
-- 
   Durval Menezes (durval AT tmp DOT com DOT br, http://www.tmp.com.br/)