[CAUT] Forum format (was Re: Requirements forcontributing/posting; RPT status

[David Ilvedson]

I went to wikipedia and learned about the open editing feature of a wiki....sounds like an idea for pianotech

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Fred Sturm" <fssturm at unm.edu>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
Received: 7/15/2008 9:57:19 AM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Forum format (was Re: Requirements forcontributing/posting; RPT status


>On Jul 15, 2008, at 9:23 AM, Alan McCoy wrote:

>> What I keep coming back to though is
>> the idea of an online database, or repository, of collective  
>> knowledge and
>> wisdom, a wikipedia of piano technology, if you will. I think I have  
>> been
>> trying to shoehorn the listserve format into something it is not  
>> designed to
>> do. The two vehicles together would be more useful than either alone.

>	I think that the two concepts could work well together - one being a  
>discussion group, the other an organized archive. With a skeleton  
>archive wiki (or whatever) in place, people could be encouraged to  
>post to it: "That was well put. Why don't you post it to the wiki?"  
>And over time, it might become habit: have something to say that seems  
>worth saving? Post it to both. Or write a more permanent version to  
>post to the archive.
>	I certainly share your frustration with the archives as currently  
>constituted. I find searching it an exercise in futility as often as  
>not. There is some great stuff in it, but hard to ferret out.
>Regards,
>Fred Sturm
>University of New Mexico
>fssturm at unm.edu