SPUG: SPUGwiki Needs Photos, etc.

Brian Wisti brian at coolnamehere.com
Tue Jul 22 14:47:02 CDT 2003


Ben Reser wrote:

>On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 11:02:38AM -0700, SPUG-list-owner wrote:
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>>My concern is that in lulls between "buffy" discussions, the
>>London.pm folks might notice that only 7 alleged SPUGsters were
>>sufficiently conscious to make MemberPages for themselves on our
>>Wiki Site, which might lead to calls for a recount of the last
>>PUG census, with "hanging chad" members excluded! 8-}
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>Yeah the problem is now everyone is doing the Wiki thing and saying "Hey
>come make a page here."  I already have a home page.  I barely have time
>to maintain it.  Why would I want to make another page that I won't have
>time to maintain?
>
>Frankly, I think the better thing to do is:
>a) Realize that the wiki is not the only way to participate.
>b) Accept that it is new and will take time to ramp up.
>c) Rather than encouraging people to post pictures of their dog fluffy,
>have them post useful and interesting things that relate to the
>group.  This will take longer to happen, but as people come up with
>things that are useful and interesting asking them to spend the time to
>post it on the wiki is likely to be far more fruitful than asking people
>to duplicate their personal home pages.
>
>Besides what can Londom.pm talk about?  They don't even have a wiki yet.
>At least I can't find any mention of it on their page.  ;)
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I think the SPUG Wiki is part useful, and also part social.  We're all 
obviously very technically skilled, and very busy - well, you guys are 
;-) - but having faces for everybody and their dog Fluffy makes it 
easier to bridge the mental gap between ASCII text cluttering my inbox 
and real live people forming a community.

Of course, I could also bridge that gap by showing up to meetings, but 
whatever - I'm shy.

This community could and should include folks who focus on technical 
aspects rather than fluffy puppies, and the Wiki could and should 
reflect that.  If you want to see useful stuff on there, write some and 
put it on the wiki.  Let the site reflect the full range of what SPUG is :-)

Oh, and London.pm seems fairly quiet at the moment.  SPUG appears to be 
much more active and hyper.  Must be the ready supply of caffeine.

- Brian W
http://coolnamehere.com/




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