[dcw] WIki subpage proposals and a usage question

[Braden]

Responses interspersed below.

On May 28, 2012, at 12:14 PM, Steve Edberg wrote:

> If no one has any objection, I'd like to create two additional subpages on
> http://daviswiki.org/Davis_Community_Workshop:
> 
> (1) Show & Tell notes - just a simple list, eg -
> 
>  * 27 May 2012
> 
>    * Reprap (link to http://reprap.org/wiki/RepRap)
> 
> - so we can remember what was shown, and get links for further info.


Seems nice; instead of a subpage, it could also just be put under the 'Reoccurring Meetings' section of the main page, and also include a link to the minutes posted to the list, to act as a summery of the meetings for visitors to the wiki page.


> (2) Naming
> 
> I know we discussed doing this via this list, and then posting a few names
> for consideration on the wiki, but it might be easier if we simply started
> adding names to a wiki page, and then we could whittle those down to a
> second round for voting at some point.


Also instead of another subpage, maybe this could be a subsection of the 'Goals and Visions' notes on the http://daviswiki.org/Davis_Community_Workshop/Goals_and_Projects page?  Just to keep the space name and ideas for the space together.


> And now the question: is there any objection to occasional group purchase
> requests on the list? For instance, I'd like to get a Soekris
> (http://soekris.com/) box and they have quantity discounts starting at 2.
> If the consensus is that this would add too much noise to the list, we
> could do this offlist or create another list for that purpose. I'm not
> sure myself if I'd like to see a lot of this on the list, so I'm open to
> not doing it.
> 
> And once we get more of  a group structure and create a website, we could
> create a parts buying group for this purpose.


Interesting.  It might be noisy if it gets too unrelated to the space itself.  Though if part of the goal here would be to find equipment to be donated to the eventual space itself, it could be quite useful to bring up here.

  - Braden