Re: [xwiki-devs] [ANN] XWiki Community Farm is now online

Hi everyone, A few months ago we had discussed the possibility of offering a free community-managed farm for non-business critical projects. See http://tinyurl.com/69blgy In short the ideas are: 1) No support guarantee. All support done on the xwiki.org user mailing list by the community. 2) No stability guarantee. We would always install the latest Platform/XE/XEM version on it and it would serve as a stability test for the xwiki development team. Obviously the community will always try to make it as stable as possible but that's not guaranteed. It's also possible that the farm will be down a few days now and then. We'll try to reduce this but no warranties. 3) There will be several members of the community who'll have admin access on the farm. 4) It will be open to anyone. However the target users will be technical people who can support themselves to some extent. We won't control that but it'll be mentioned on the registration page. In any case points 1) and 2) make it obvious that it shouldn't be used for any business-critical wiki. We're now announcing the myxwiki.org community farm at http://myxwiki.org Note that the machine was donated by the XPertNet company (http://xwiki.com ). Thanks XPertNet! :) Right now the following persons are admin on this farm: * ThomasMortagne * Marta * Sergiu * GuillaumeLerouge * amelentev (Artem) * Jerome Velociter * jvdrean (Jean-Vincent) * VincentMassol Please note that all these people are doing this in their free time and thus we're looking for more admins. If you're interested in helping us manage this farm (and we hope there'll be plenty of you interested) then please register a user and let me know and I'll make you admin. Here's what admins should do: * work on improving the community farm content in general * work on improving the way information is presented and navigation * watch the recent changes and undo graffitis where needed * create wikis for people who request them (there's a HTML form to fill) - we'll need to decide if we want to make that self service or not. Right now I suggest that people interested in getting a wiki there send an email to the xwiki users list explaining what they want to do with their new wiki and then one admin creates it for them. * watch out for security holes * suggest ideas to improve the farm What everyone can do: * edit and improve content for the non admins parts of the farm * spread the word, blog about it, etc