Looking for good souls

tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Sun Apr 23 00:03:32 UTC 2006


On 22-Apr-06, at 12:43 PM, Brad Fuller wrote:
[snip my vague and waffley bits]

> Let me offer some ideas.
>
> We have started, what we call, an "Answer Board."  It is nothing more
> than a moderated forum where people can ask specific questions. Those
> questions are answered by "experts." We understand that questions by
> beginners may not yield the answer the beginner has in mind -- the
> question may be vague, the beginner may not know how to ask the
> question, etc. So, a forum seemed to be a good way to "bat around" the
> question to ultimately arrive at a/the solution. (plus there are  
> not 100
> emails for a beginner to wade through.)
>
> The "answers" are then reformulated and stored on a wiki for reference
> later. A beginner can always go to the wiki first to search. The  
> Wiki is
> managed by people that are responsible for organizing and managing the
> question/answer - but they are not necessarily the "experts."
>
> Let me reiterate Tim's urging that a Wiki *must* be maintained
> regularly. The squeak swiki is so outdated that it's very hard to use
> and I believe beginners will find it difficult and may, in the end,  
> just
> give up. A well groomed, up-to-date Wiki is required to pull this off.
>
> We are at the beginning of this exercise, but it proves to be
> worthwhile. We might consider this approach or a derivative.

An excellent way of putting exactly what I was trying to say.  
Discussion followed by synthesis followed by an ariticle.


tim
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