Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to New forum suggestions ...

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Posted by Torben Brosten on
"content developers and site administrators forum ..." --David Siktberg

Don, David, et al,

Two requirements come to mind:

1. Are titles reflected directly in the url, or can shortened names represent the forum in the url?

If using this title means that urls pointing to threads in the forum will look something like: https://openacs.org/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=0005RO&topic_id=11&topic=content%20developers%20and%20site%20administrators then the name is too long.

2. The title of the forum should be identical to the name of the part of documentation that addresses the same areas (for consistency).

If a consensus is made for this name, then the "Part II. For OpenACS Admins" (see Table of Contents at https://openacs.org/doc/openacs-4/ ) should be renamed to "Part II. For OpenACS Content Developers and Site Administrators"

My thoughts:

I like David Siktberg's suggestion. Maybe we can shorten it. Really, the forum (and docs in this area) deal with more than "developing" content --applying, managing and integrating content for example. In fact, what's done with content might be similar to what's done with an active OpenACS site --administering it. Creating new standards and digital representation of content (as in new MIME types and graphics types) isn't really a part of the topic. What if we shorten the title to: "content and site administrators forum"

Or.. abbreviating it, let's consider:

"Content and Site Admins Forum"

This seems to represent the spirit of the forum to me. What do you think?