Fwd: [ANN] Squeak People - smallwiki

13 Nov 2003

an idea for security in SmallWiki look at the 
http://people.suqeakfoundation.org/

Stef

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  From: "Andreas Raab"
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 Date: Jeu nov 13, 2003  13:02:02 Europe/Zurich
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 Subject: RE: [ANN] Squeak People
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 Hi,

  I agree with Stephane, what is the intention of
this thing? 
 I guess Cees' intention is simply to experiment with "just another" 
 approach
 to community sites. Couple of things I like about it (and why I think 
 it's
 going to be successful):
 * It's really simple to use and very intuitive
 * It has a model of trust which seems really nice[*]
 * It is very clean in its presentation and simple to read for anyone 
 new to
 Squeak

 [*] If the trust model works out I could imagine that we use 
 authorizations
 derived from the site - e.g., something like "for the front page you 
 have to
 be certified journeyman or higher". Doing this would (I think) almost
 immediately block any of the abuse we see on the Swiki today.

  And why not wait for the results of the November
task force
 before opening another space for discussion? 
 TFNR has (in my understanding) very different goals. The site can be 
 used to
 discuss some of these but other than this I don't see any overlap
 whatsoever. Do you?

  Such a thing could be a nice thing for a task
force who works
 on a specific project; but at the moment this context is missing
 ... why not enhance the existing processes? 
 Not sure I understand this. Personally, I think the site _is_ an 
 enhancement
 of the existing processes.

 Cheers,
   - Andreas