RE: [Glug-nith-discuss] Blogs 'n' Wiki @ GLUG NITH

[vijay.kumarmateti]

>These are not really the most important things. What we actually need
is a >community. A strong, dedicated, helpful community. Not necessarily
a big >community, but a good one. One which you can be proud of.

>Once that is there the infrastructure automatically gets taken care of.

Some one need to come forward to trigger that automation. That's what I
been stressing upon.

> Sure a wiki or CMS enhances the ease of contribution, but it is the
> content which is more important than anything else.

Now you are talking like a GNU webmaster :) 

I do concur with what you've said and that's what we been doing from the
beginning. But the freedom of expressing at your own will is always
better than any third person intervention, that's where dynamic pages
like blogs and wikis differ. CMS will make life easy, they can
concentrate more on the content than how to publish the content. 

>Sure. The good thing is that right now the server is no more behind the
>institute firewall & NAT which was blocking SSH requests from outside.
We >are now directly connected to the wild Internet (the institute
firewall was >in any case of no use ;-)) If you want a SSH account just
mail me and/or >Arjun your desired username and we will create one for
you.

>Once you have the SSH account I guess there would be no stopping you.
:-D

Great! I'll mails those details to Arjun.

Sagar/Vivek/Divya,

I want you to set the Agenda for year 2007-2008. You should encourage
freshers to get into FOSS development and help them out in contributing
to the community.

You guys can organize some Hackfest, BarCamp or Install fest the Next
academic year. 

It would be great if you can maintain Knowledge repository in the form
of How-To's (exaustive, mini, micro), ScreenCasting (Rishi has already
started the process, you can get in touch base with him), White Papers
and Wiki Articles.

I'm willing to talk to College authorities in raising some fund from the
college as well as Alumni to encourage student participation by
announcing contest for best Article, whitepapers of the month. 

Any kind of Issues, pl. raise it on mailing list. We will try our level
best to find the solution.

Have Fun!

Peace,
Vijay


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