[LGM] etherpads are out of band discussion: please make sure that they are documented in the lgm infrastructure!

[Stefan Huber]

Hey Ale
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I think the strength of the Web is to connect the dots. I think we should link to the etherpads and keep them living and nod become human-copy-machines. Some workgroups are using the etherpads actively some are just to read what was decided. They are the source and the original. All what happens should happen there. 

We should only have a backup-copy in case something happen. We could get a text-dump and an etherpad-dump so we would even be able to import the content again into an other pad if the original goes down. 

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Stefan Huber
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> On 7 May 2018, at 11:30, ale rimoldi <ale at graphicslab.org> wrote:
> 
> hi stefan
> 
>> Thanks for your suggestion. I agree 100% that we need to save the
>> content separate to keep it archived. I'm not sure about your
>> workflow. It's in my opinion unrealistic to do that manually. I
>> suggest that we have a github-repo and in it there is a file with all
>> the links we need to export (etherpads have a export-url
>> {{repourl}}/export/txt). Then there is a cronjob that exports all the
>> etherpads automatically from time to time to the same github repo.
>> There people can get a copy when the pads go offline.
>> 
>> If you like, I can do a setup for that. Just give me a repo on the
>> libregraphics-organisation and and travis-ci will do the job. 
> 
> interesting idea.
> 
> this would be ok for archiving.
> at least for etherpads.
> for other collaborative tools it might be a bit harder to scale. but
> not impossible.
> all of them have links. of course.
> 
> 
> on the other side the documentation goal would not really be met:
> i wonder who will go and read the content of that repository...
> 
> from my side, go ahead if you think that your solution meets the needs
> of archiving (and documenting) the documents collaboratively created
> for the LGMs.
> personally, i still tend to prefer a manual (and edited) way to keep
> track of the documents.
> it might be a little bit more of work in the short term but might give
> us a much better LGM in the long term.
> 
> ciao
> a.l.e
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