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Grex > Coop > #295: New Conference Proposals | |
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cross
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response 3 of 13:
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Nov 26 20:51 UTC 2010 |
I reallydoubt it.
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jgelinas
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response 4 of 13:
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Nov 26 20:53 UTC 2010 |
Dan, all I'm doing here is giving folks a place to request conferences.
What happens next, we'll determine when someone asks for one. :)
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cross
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response 5 of 13:
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Nov 26 21:06 UTC 2010 |
That's fine, Joe. But grex does tend to get wrapped around the axle when it
comes to following procedure. I think that's going to hurt us going forward;
people need to get used to being more agile and accepting of things that
aren't the way that things have always been.
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kentn
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response 6 of 13:
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Nov 26 21:24 UTC 2010 |
Given the low usage of conferences, we probably should create new ones
rather quickly if there is a little interest and someone willing to run
it. The amount of disk space is rather trivial nowadays, so no big
issue there. And seeing some new life in the conferences would be good.
If we create a new conference, be sure to announce it in agora so others
can see and maybe try it out.
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veek
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response 7 of 13:
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Nov 27 14:39 UTC 2010 |
resp:5 totally!
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1. What is the command tsty runs to add new accounts? Is it done via
sudo? On M-net, you had this command that a volunteer could manually run
that would create an account.. I was thinking, to speed up account
creation, would it be possible to allow ANY member to create said
account?
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jgelinas
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response 8 of 13:
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Nov 27 16:03 UTC 2010 |
To *create* an account, or to *validate* an account? The command to
validate an account is, IIRC, "validate." It can only be run by members
of the 'porters' group, again IIRC.
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veek
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response 9 of 13:
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Nov 27 18:36 UTC 2010 |
oops! apologies - 'validate'. thank you.
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tsty
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response 10 of 13:
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Dec 11 07:17 UTC 2010 |
re 7 ... cmmand is validate .. i actualy use an alias for it.
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remmers
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response 11 of 13:
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Dec 11 17:39 UTC 2010 |
The procedure outlined by Joe in resp:0 dates from an era when there
were lots of active conferences and folks were concerned about topic
overlap. A reqest dialog might go like this -
REQUESTER: I'd like to have a conference where we talk about ABC.
RANDOM RESPONDENT: There's already an XYZ conference where they
talk about that. It's pretty active.
REQUESTER: Oh, ok, never mind then, I'll go to conference XYZ.
Nowadays it's difficult to imagine that dialog taking place.
I'd favor simplifying the process.
Now, does anybody want a new conference?
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veek
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response 12 of 13:
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Dec 11 17:56 UTC 2010 |
we still need to advertise and update the website to reflect all this..
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cross
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response 13 of 13:
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Dec 11 21:43 UTC 2010 |
Anybody can check out the web repository and start updating stuff. Send
patches to staff.
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