Interesting IBM article about collaborative web sites.

[Brian Burger]

On 7/23/06, Myles A. Braithwaite <myles at monkeyinyoursoul.com> wrote:
>
> I thought this was a interesting article about collaborative web sites
> we could maybe implement at ubuntu.ca/ubuntu-ca.org.
>
> http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/osource/index.html
>

Interesting set of articles, but I really don't think we need anything
nearly that complex at ubuntu.ca... I can't see the point in duplicating
existing Ubuntu community recourses on ubuntu.ca.

When Corey & I rebuilt Ubuntu.ca, one of the principles we started with was
"link to existing resources, rather than attempt to duplicate them"...

We don't need a wiki - Ubuntu runs two of those already.
We've got a mailing list, so we don't need forums.
File transfer/storage - maybe, but the wikis can host files too.
Schedules - can't see how we'd need this.

Even for things like lists of LUGs Canada-wide, I'd much rather link (as we
currently do) to CLUE's big database, and have people make additions &
improvements there. That benefits the larger Canadian Linux community far
more than ubuntu.ca creating a new massive list would.

If we did switch Ubuntu.ca over to a CMS, it would be a much, much simpler
one than Drupal, but again, I think a basic static webpage serves our needs
just fine right now.

That said, if anyone does have ideas for content/layout/links/whatever for
Ubuntu.ca, feel free to bring them up!

Brian
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