CC: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>, Scott Mintz <scott.w.mintz@gmail.com>
Hello Tim,
I was interested in your comments on our Google docs, and I'm glad you have found some organization to them. Actually, I have come to the conclusion that a Google document is not the ideal way to document collaboration, and I am right now experimenting by setting up a very basic Blogspot blog (it can have up to 100 authors) and adjusting the settings to see if it can serve our purposes better than a document where all the indexing must be provided manually. Scott Mintz is helping me with this. Later this weekend, after we have tinkered with it some more, I am going to share the blog with you and ask for your input. What I like better about the blog format so far is that it prompts everyone to use Headings and searchable tags, and automatedly displays contributor ID and date. For now, the blog will not have anything in it except placeholder items to tinker with--we will be sticking with the Google docs until we conclude the group blog is better, if we do.
We see the Africa project and the media project as
essentially the same effort at the underlying level: how do we
capitalize on our newly increased ability to share knowledge for the
benefit of our community and the world? So what we learn about documenting and sharing for one will be applied to the other. There will be more media project
activity later in the summer, and I am quite glad we went ahead with
the charitable sub-project in advance of the main project, because we
are learning a lot about working together online. I am pleased you are interested in this aspect of what we are doing.
