ERT Journal - Your feedback please!

[VGR]

bof ;-)

drupal

[nicholassolutions]

LOL I was waiting for that ;-)
Yes, drupal, but then again, why not? I've been pretty impressed by what we were able to do in a day or two of casual tinkering. Whether it's the final solution, I rather doubt it, but it could certainly be a step forward. It also might help get people in the habit of working on things outside a forum...

[Esopo]

My $.02

Journal - Couldn't hurt

Wiki - I just removed a sexually explicit picture from the Wikipedia yesterday. I felt good having access to clean it up even while not being registered. I am also going through a painful process of becoming a selftaught master in US History (taking a college class - got myself 8 books [who knew every book tells the story differently ??] ;) and requested some wiki improvements on an article about John Smith and Pocahontas.

I feel Wiki is the way if we can keep it clean can come up with rules that will make absolute sense when dealing with technical articles of the nature pertinent to this site.

And since I just used the word pertinent, I'd like to post a quote using status quo in a sentence:
"The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed."

I was introduced to that quote yesterday and I think it says a lot about progress. Every congress session should start with 5 mins of reflecting on that idea  :D

[COBOLdinosaur]

I like it.  If nothing else it reduces the amount of work required to get an idea and collaborative input to an article ready point.  It will also make it easier to point article aot the discussion threads, as the idea matures. Plus the drupal(yuck!) format using wiki will get better treatment by spiders and should help increase the relevance that the SEs apply to the pages.

A positive step forward.  

Now I have to figure out haw to work on ERT.com while they continue under a s serious DoS against their name servers.  Most of the day, I have not even been able to log on to the CP.  The load times for all the sites on the net block ar running 90+ seconds, and a lot of the time the whole page does not get delivered.  
 :sad3:

[nicholassolutions]

I'm glad people like the wiki idea. I think it's got a lot of potential.

I like it. If nothing else it reduces the amount of work required to get an idea and collaborative input to an article ready point.

That's exactly how I look at it. Eventually I'm sure we'll grow tired of things about drupal, just like we did with phpBB, but hopefully something like this could bring us a tiny bit closer to where we're going, as phpBB did. And it's also a good step in weening us from a forum-only environment and teaching us some new skills -- in the 'journal'
 setup, the forum is much more of a side room than the main attraction. There's always the danger that we'll come up with some great mentorWare and it won't take off the way it should be because people are so unfamiliar with working that way (that includes me, BTW).

I noticed the DoS earler =( A woman had actually emailed me about my perl compilation tut with a question and I was trying to have a look to undertsand her question (I asked to bring it to the forum, we'll see if she shows up), and I couldn't get to it. I'm not sure what you wanted to work on, but if the attacks keep up, I can set you up with a  clone of the last backup over here.[/quote]

[COBOLdinosaur]

I have all the source I am working with on my HD, but the attack reduces the traffic to a trickle this afternoon, and cron got shut down so the feed were not refreshing and I had to do them manually.  I was going to put a new version of the page up today but now I wll hold off a couple of days.  The DOS attacks on sites sometimes get repeated for several days until enough of the IPs get blocked to make them ineffective.

The wiki style posting in you have in the journals is a good move in teh right direction, the initial direct interaction between users and mentors will be similar, in that a users will be able to post short comments to help the mentor understand what is helping and what is not.  

Tha initial comment by the user will get followed up by an invitation to join the discussion group so they can ease in; haveing already "met" the Mentor leading the group.  It is more work than just putting up a register here button, but it will mean the people joing are doing so because they are really interested in the topic.

Let's see how the journal works out, because it develops different skills that will work well wtih the learning center concept.

[sajuks]

i like the clean and uncluttered look a lot. A well kept journal indeed.The concept also is sure to attract quite a number of visitors.

[coral1]

I'm in, and already cluttered the place up.    :?

[nicholassolutions]

Nice  :D
that would be the perfect type of thing for your second hand bytes stuff, and it'd probably get a lot more traffic that way too.

[coral1]

It was too big for "SHB", so I gave it its own Topic.

What I poated on Journal was the HTML version I am trying to puff up a little for Cd&'s Content side.  :wink: