Hello Darcy
Right then, straight to the point as usual. Bearing in mind that this team has actually only been around for... what time is it? Umm, a little under 24hrs, let me see which of your questions I can answer.
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Tomorrow, next week, next month, next year, in this century?
Is this "will be" going to happen in my lifetime?
Presuming you're not on death's door, yes.
You are of course right, the
will be was quoted directly, but of course should have been altered to
are.
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What can you do today that you could not do yesterday.
What do you expect to be able to do tomorrow that you cannot do today?
Today, we can reply to your post as Community Coordinators.
Tomorrow we can discuss the definition of our tasks.
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Will there be any change in your ability to achieve any of the stated goals?
I would definitely hope so, though seeing as how we just started today, we may not be able achieve them all tomorrow.
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1 responsible for daily administrative jobs << can you delete a spam or do you ask a moderator to do that for you.
I don't think that's the kind of administration that we're being asked to perform. As you say, that'd be a moderators job. Before you ask, we have yet to discover exactly what admin jobs are expected of us, nor have we had a moment to discuss what admin related work we should propose to take on.
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2 help users to contact corresponding teams upon their requests. I can do that today, and if the names and teams are listed on one of the sidebars anyone else can also.
By all means, go ahead. As the names of all the team members are not listed concisely anywhere and as, in fact, the teams are still in a state of flux, it might take us a day or two to put together the list ourselves. If you're proposing that the list be put in a sidebar somewhere, there was a similar call from
alitan in the comments of
this news article today.
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3 help users to understand and use XOOPS correctly. That does not require XOOPS authorization, it comes naturally among end users.
Indeed it does. And we will be trying to help bring people with questions together with people with answers too.
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Telling a theme maker that placing code in the theme html that would be better placed in the admin panel footer from the end user point of view is not going to play well and probably get you the response. It is not your business that I make it difficult for the 'not program savy' website owner to edit and make changes in their XOOPS site package.
I think that depends on how you put it to this theoretical themer. If a theme has a serious flaw (and assuming that it has managed to slip through the peer review that I think the theme dev team and design team will be providing), then I'd have thought said themer would appreciate being advised concisely, and in a non confrontational manner, how this flaw was turning people off of his/her theme.
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4 help users to use the XOOPS official sites properly. << have they been abused. Dev.xoops.org had not been posted on since 2004 until I posted a new link in 2007. That would not be considered proper since it did not relate specifically to module building, but it was a way to make do with what one has available until told it is not acceptable.
Under this proposal you should be instructing me to remove it.
I don't think so, Darcy. Under this proposal, we should:
*Co-ordinate with the documentation and/or site's team to have a clear set of 'Proper Use Guidelines' for the official sites drawn up.
*Have made sure that the folk who run the site get a copy if they didn't write it themselves.
*Suggest that they put a prominent link to it in a place where people people likely to need guidance can see it.
I think that the mods of each particular site would be policing their sites for abuse, and if said guidelines were available, pointing abusers to it.
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What are the do-able tasks that this forum may realistic expect to be able to accomplish that is not being done now?
That's exactly what we're about to discuss and find out. Feel free to join in the discussion.
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is this committee, destined to be just a "paper tiger"
Not if I have anything to do with it, no.
We have three, 1 day old, team members at present. It's going to take us a wee bit of time to work out where we stand and where we're going. You can rest assured that all of this will be in public, and that our ears will most definitely be open to suggestions.
Thank you very much for kick-starting the proposed discussion on our list of tasks. You have given us food for thought, and helped me to express some of what I was going to write tomorrow. Oh, it is tomorrow. Off to bed now. Work in... 3 hours.
Crip
Never let a man who does not believe something can be done, talk to a man that is doing it.