Wiki Updates

[Christopher Browne]

At the 2006-01-22 board meeting, we discussed the notion of setting up
a central "Resources" page whose URL we would put onto business cards
for distribution at the IT360 conference.  That represents perhaps the
cheapest possible *useful* giveaway for us to have there.

The notion was that we should pick some set of topics that are likely
to be of some general interest that we have some local expertise on.
For each topic, we should have pointers both to traditional "global"
resources (e.g. - to http://samba.org/, for SAMBA) as well as to local
resources that might be able to render local assistance.

It appears that there is a relevant "Resources" page on the Wiki which
I can't edit. In lieu of that, I have added in an itemized list at
http://gtalug.org/wiki/Site_administration listing a set of items that
Colin and I came up with.

Each item should have its own Wiki page consisting of pointers to
global resources (HOWTOs and such) as well as to any local support
sources.

I have "filled in the blanks" for a number of them, but for this to
become a resource worthy of publishing cards with the URL, others need
to fill in the blanks and generally make it a richer set of
information.

There are, in effect, four things to be done to improve things:

1.  Fill in the blanks.  For various topics (Linux on USB key, Custom
Knoppix, Linux Networking, Wireless Networking on LInux), there need
to be Wiki pages set up with useful material.

2.  Interlink things.

I added a page on PostgreSQL, and then did a search for various places
where PostgreSQL was referenced, and added links to the PG page in
those various places.

I did the same (somewhat; not done) for references to the Linux kernel

3.  Tighten things up.

When I was looking at the Linux kernel linkages, I discovered that
there was info about the Linux kernel scattered in various places.  To
some degree, I drew it to one main place.

There is material already on Networking that could be drawn into a
single central Wiki page, which would doubtless make it more useful.

4.  Finally, having a central "link farm" page of sorts

Having one page that quickly links to many topics of interest gives us
a single URL that we can give out to people.  There is a "Resources"
page; it's somewhat locked against editing, so someone administrative
on the Wiki needs to help out with that piece.

If a dozen people each add / improve a page, and add some links within
the wiki, and draw material from various places into the Page For A
Topic, I think this wiki can be a resource of some significant value
worthy of distributing cards with the URL on it.

If I'm the only one that does anything, it won't be worthy of that...


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