[Noisebridge-discuss] do you guys want a uservoice account?

Ian ian at slumbrparty.com
Sat Oct 31 23:25:46 UTC 2009


oh cool, thanks for doing the research. i'll have to check that out.

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 2:03 AM,  <krux at thcnet.net> wrote:
> Ok further looking at it, it looks like there is a groups implementation,
> though it is a little wonky / non-intuitive yet.
>
> Here is the link to the wave itself discussing groups:
>
> https://wave.google.com/wave/#minimized:nav,minimized:contact,minimized:search,restored:wave:googlewave.com!w%252BVJoH3a3CK.2
>
> but to summarize:
>
>  * Create a Google Group, if one doesn't already exist for your topic
>  * Invite or otherwise add people who already have Google Wave accounts
>  * Add group-name at googlegroups.com to your Wave contacts (just as with the
>   public at a.gwave.com user, Google.s web Wave.client will tell you that the
>   user doesn.t have an account on Google Wave! You can ignore that, and
>   hit the return key to save your contact anyway; you must do this before
>   you can add the group to a wave)
>  * Add group-name at googlegroups.com to a wave!
>
> That also shows, how to make a wave publicly editable by adding the
> public at a.gwave.com user.
>
> I didn't see a noisebridge google group, and since I'm actually not a SF
> resident, I'll leave that as an exercise to a motivated Noisebridge local.
>
> perl -e 's++=END;++y(;-P)}\n?k++=;<+xru}?print:??;'
>
> On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, krux at thcnet.net wrote:
>
>> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:09:03 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: krux at thcnet.net
>> To: Ian <ian at slumbrparty.com>
>> Cc: Rubin Abdi <rubin at starset.net>,
>>     NoiseBridge Discuss <noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] do you guys want a uservoice account?
>>
>> Not that I've seen.  There doesn't seem to be any concept of a public wave
>> either.
>>
>> > From: Ian <ian at slumbrparty.com>
>> >
>> > google wave is an interesting thought. i have been playing around with
>> > the widget stuff and the voting one can pretty much emulate the same
>> > thing. there is one thing, however, that is i problem i think. you
>> > have to be explicitly invited to the wave. do they have contact groups
>> > you can create? i havent tried doing that yet.
>> >
>> > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:17 AM,  <krux at thcnet.net> wrote:
>> > >> i would say an application designed to do this is better than a
>> > >> mailing list because important information is quantified. if i start a
>> > >> "lets have a weekly pinata" thread, after n email messages, its hard
>> > >> to see who is for and against the idea. also, people dont normally
>> > >> respond to threads just to say they want it or dont want it. the
>> > >> barrier of participation is much higher. you are cutting a lot of
>> > >> people out.
>> > >
>> > > There is google wave, but not everyone has that just yet.
>> > >
>> > > perl -e 's++=END;++y(;-P)}\n?k++=;<+xru}?print:??;'
>> > >
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