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

[Dave Crossland]

On Mon, May 7, 2018, 6:14 AM Stefan Huber <sh at signalwerk.ch> wrote:

> Hey Ale
> —
> 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.
>


+1 from me to this back up idea


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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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