Building a LDP’s community, part 0.

June 29, 2008

Well, my recent posts here are basically about LDP, understandably it is the only topic in my work that keep me focused on that particular project. Since I saw the wiki would die I tried to do anything I could to save it. And there is some result, the spam abuse was decreased to “normal” and reasonable level. In order to achieve athat I put as much as possible efforts to keep the wiki’s content db up-to-date. But probably it is not the only thing necessary to protect the wiki. I consider a per-registration account, so any no-registered users will have disabled access to write and edit pages.

Since, this is a documentation project, I suppose the wiki to be a destination point for serious people but not spammers and hackers. And I hope a little registration should not annoy and disappoint possible contributor of documentation .

I am considering a weekly issues of community effort. Something like a place where all we could have a beer for a while and talk about the LDP. This is good idea, the only difficulty could be that we do not know each other. But that is the good part of hte internet, it connect people from many places around the world in a few seconds. A nice place for weekly meetings for beer and talking about the LDP could be the IRC. Good place where all we could talk and have a cold beer.

And, of course, LDP forums/blogs would be appropriate idea also for the people that are not available at the meeting’s time.