Re: [tlug] Re: Post my article on tlug.jp?

["Keith Bawden" <keith@example.com>]

On 7/28/07, Jonathan Byrne <jonathan@example.com> wrote:
>> On 7/27/2007, "Dave M G" <dave@example.com> wrote:
> >That this article could somehow cause "embarrassment" to tlug or myself
> >in any way at all is paranoia based on hubris.
>
> OK, I can accept that you are not embarrassed to take an unedited, sloppy
> piece of work, throw it online, and call it finished. It's your writing
> and your business, and I'm sure you have your own web page on which you
> can host it. However, you are asking us to host it on the TLUG site,
> which officially associates our name with it, and with what you could
> call our editorial standards. If you're going to ask for that, then you
> have to be willing to meet a reasonable standard. Since you're not, I
> can't support having it on our site.

Can we not publish the paper with a notification that this is the work
of "A" member of TLUG and does not necessarily reflect a single belief
of any other member/s?

After all we are a LUG and not a magazine, or newspaper... Does source
forge take responsibility or credit for any of the outstanding/crap
projects hosted there?[1]

My preference is to encourage people. After a review to ensure the
content is related in some way with the theme of our LUG then we throw
it online and post the above mentioned notification. Note: it only has
to be topical to our group, and not necessarily towing our "corporate
line".

I would even support someone posting a pro Microsoft article against
open source. I may not agree with the content but I would not mind
having those opinions posted along side the more common ones likely to
be found in our group. Of course the notification would be all
important in this more extreme example.

The point of grammar, style, brevity, and so on is something I will
happily ignore, as will many other readers within the first paragraph
or two. In the end, and as others have pointed out, if the author
wants to be read and taken seriously they will attempt to write
accordingly... this is the authors choice not ours.

So to sum up here is what I propose:

Anything can be published by a member to the site with the following conditions:

1. Standard notice/disclaimer is included denouncing group ownership
of the content.
2. Content is reviewed to ensure it is topical and contains nothing
illegal/hateful...

Regards, Keith

[1] "You agree that you are responsible for your own conduct and any
Content that you or anyone using your account creates, transmits or
displays when on SourceForge.net ("Your Content") and for any
consequences thereof." SOURCE: http://sourceforge.net/tos/tos.php