Administrative updates

[Brian Rice]

On Mar 6, 2006, at 9:59 PM, Bill Sun wrote:

> Blog or Email - A Blog is more open to the public than a mailing  
> list, and it
> doesn't clog up the subscriber's inbox.  With some HTML formatting  
> available, a
> blog can also be easier to read.  It is also convenient for those  
> that just
> want to passively follow the project, and will perhaps save the  
> mailing list
> for those that want to be more involved with the project.  Thus, I  
> believe
> blogs are more suitable for well formulated ideas, public  
> announcements...etc.
> The mailing list has a target audience - its subscribers - and thus  
> is useful
> when you want to solicit for feedback or want to convey a message  
> to the more
> engaging (hopefully) subset of your project's community.  The  
> mailing list can
> be a more formal communication channel between the active members  
> of the
> community, while the blog is more of an broadcasting channel that  
> is more
> informative than interactive.

Good point, thanks.

> CMS - Recently, I've been trying out Pier as a repository for  
> consolidating my
> project documentations into a central location.  While I didn't go  
> underneath
> the hood to customize anything, Pier is already pretty useful.  For  
> one, it
> takes care of updating the internal links fairly well, and is  
> generally easy to
> use.  There's no setting up needed (except for maybe 3 questions to  
> answer) to
> get things going.  So from an user perspective, that's definitely  
> valuable.  Of
> course, you probably already know this and understand the technical  
> side more
> fully that I, in that case, just take this as an user's experience.

This is good to know, since there aren't that many Pier users and I  
haven't tried it extensively myself.

--
-Brian
http://tunes.org/~water/brice.vcf

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