Opendap Virtualization (Aggregation) working group

[John Caron]

Gallagher James wrote:
> 
> On Apr 17, 2007, at 11:17 AM, Denis Nadeau wrote:
> 
>> John,
>>
>> I did not do anything else but reading this thread.  I figured that
>> people interested to this working  group would volunteer here.
>>
>> I think as well that it would be nice to have a page where people are
>> signing up.
> 
> 
> I agree. I'll set something up along those lines today if I can.  Peter 
> Fox just suggested it as well. ... should have thought of that...
> 
> In fact, since I have your ear, so to speak, here's what I was  planning 
> on doing.
> 
>  * Until a group reaches the magic quorum, people add their names  next 
> to the name of the group they are interested in.
>  * Once a Group reaches the quorum, we make a page for it and move  the 
> names and whatever else there.
>  * Doing this means the people will need an account on the wiki  (which 
> all of the workshop people have, but that doesn't do any good  for 
> others). In other words, all this is done with web page edits.
>  * Add a little blurb describing this to the page
> 
> John: I agree it's bogus (literally) to have the log in page also say  
> 'create account' when I've disabled the create account feature for  all 
> but a few people. I had problems with the old wiki where people  were 
> creating accounts for all sorts of nefarious reasons having  nothing to 
> do with opendap (or even software in general) and I wound  up deleting 
> about one a day. It got old. I'm open to going back to  the old way of 
> allowing open access, but I need a plan that's better  than the old way. 
> Until we come up with a better plan I will try to  remove the 'create 
> account' label.
> 
> Let me know what you think about this.

Hi James:

A few thoughts:

If your wiki allows it, let people log in, but need approval before they can post. Equivilently, have new people send an email to "moderator", with a few words on who they are. That should (mostly) eliminate the spammers.

Once people are logged in, let them (us) start the conversation on what the groups should do, by creating new pages as needed. When there's a quorum and agreement on the "group task statement", then it gets submitted to the exec committee for approval.

thanks for getting this started...