-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Craig Box wrote: |>How about members donating old equipment? this may mean getting not so |>modern equipment but at least it will cost nothing and be no great |>loss if damaged. | | | For the presentation rig purpose, we wanted to buy some specific stuff - | build a rack to house 3 machines, put in a KVM, etc. "Most people" who do | presentations have enough hardware; we wanted something we could lend out to | other people. It was more a "this would be cool to have" than "we need | this". Please feel free to suggest something else. | | We have goals in education and community support; we think that these grants | are worth pursuing. Little is lost if we don't get them. So true, but the problem is the people who approve the grants only know sports and culture as they see that as being of benefit to the whole community, not a special interest group. | | |>The wiki has lots of useful information, but in saying that it is very |>generic and does not really cover any specific distro and since each |>one is different it does get very confusing. | | | ^^^ Everyone who wonders why we are only prepared | ||| to support Fedora or Debian, please read that again. | | Remember also that Linux is Linux is Linux... So true, but some distros do things hardware wise differently from others as in the case of bttv, for example. | | |>How about just remembering to mention a specific distro the |>information has been tested with. | | | "We" do this in general (all the metanet pages for example say "this bit is | for Debian, this for Red Hat" - so do the Cyrus/LDAP ones to name a couple); | the wiki is edited by a great number of people, and not everyone who | contributes is from the WLUG itself. | | |>How about some more HowTos on the wiki, and not just generic but |>distro specific. | | | How about you write them, then. Easy said then done, and I am the one saying it. The big problem I have found is that there is a lot on you need to do this to get this going, but it is usually not needed as the information relates to an old distro. Case in point TV tuner cards and if you look I have made some changes to the Tv Tuner Howto. | | To my mind, there are a great number, especially locally written ones. I | love using my FreeSwan to Cisco PIX howto as a great example. It's there | because I needed to do it. I don't need to install a dial up modem. The | people that -do- need to write the howtos. We'll edit them and clean them | up! Sadly that is the problem. Hardware is the tricky one and is the one area where new users are going to get stuck. As an idea how hard would it be to add a section to the wiki where users can enter a list of their hardware and peripherals and get a report back ~ on any issues etc contributed from other wiki users? I know it would take a bit of work, but it could be fun and could even be of some benefit to the old hands. | | Otherwise, duplicating of effort is silly - if there is a good howto on | TLDP.org or something, we may as well just link to it. | | Craig | | _______________________________________________ | wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz | Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug | | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBUkjkn59nxBodCVURAsMrAJ9uKLg0v6i+F4OHy1TDFBYWIztZIACgtB/6 Qj91MnQfV0PSJqY8FkCXabs= =CfJo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----