Possible new main board thread?

[Dandasarge]

I was wondering if I'm the only one but dose anyone else thinks we need to add a thread for discussions for inter-team things? Like the committee discussion. I have a few other SETI.USA questions that really don’t have a home. I’m going to place them in the forms section but feel it would be better addressed in a Team Thread.

[Dandasarge]

Never mind I’ll post it in the lounge but can we move the committee thing there? I think that is better suited for the topic for now.

[DrPop]

Yes, there have been several discussions on this. I'm pretty sure everyone knows I'm up for a team only forum as well at any time.

Nothing like airing dirty laundry in public forums...sigh.

[Dandasarge]

Not quite how I ment it.

[GregK]

id like to see a private members only thread also!

[STMahlberg]

I was wondering if I'm the only one but dose anyone else thinks we need to add a thread for discussions for inter-team things? Like the committee discussion. I have a few other SETI.USA questions that really don’t have a home. I’m going to place them in the forms section but feel it would be better addressed in a Team Thread.

Yes, we are lacking one. Any ideas on a name for it?

Yes, there have been several discussions on this. I'm pretty sure everyone knows I'm up for a team only forum as well at any time.

Nothing like airing dirty laundry in public forums...sigh.

Agreed.

Not quite how I ment it.

Understand but Inter-Team discussions should be private.

id like to see a private members only thread also!

I believe that most of us would as well.

What we need to do is petition our Friendly Neighborhood Admin.

Mr. H and Tera, we want a private forum for Team Only discussions... or we are going to toilet paper your house... btw, where do you live?

[GregK]

being just back.. is terra and mrhankey still around? i ahvnt seen a post yet from either.

mrhankey terra how bout that thread?

name? same as the old id say "members only" but something new more friendly id be cool with.

[trigggl]

being just back.. is terra and mrhankey still around? i ahvnt seen a post yet from either.

mrhankey terra how bout that thread?

name? same as the old id say "members only" but something new more friendly id be cool with.

Tera hasn't been around since 1969. It's true, just look him up in the member list.
T section of member list.

[Mr. Hankey]

being just back.. is terra and mrhankey still around? i ahvnt seen a post yet from either.

mrhankey terra how bout that thread?

name? same as the old id say "members only" but something new more friendly id be cool with.

Hey, I am always around I average 1.72 posts / day how could you miss me?! If I am not posting I am probably fighting off spammers, adding new RSS feeds, checking out new features or working on things like trying to finally get our domain transferred. And funny you should mention this topic about having a team only forum area as we have recently been discussing this admin side since we know this has been a desire of the team.




So... this seems like a good as place as any to propose to you what we had in mind.

First the problem statement: Who gets access, by what criteria, and what happens when someone doesn't meet that criteria anymore once they are "in"? Also this access criteria needs to be applied fairly and the same be you a big stoner or small. Lastly the overhead of applying said criteria and maintaining access cannot consume all of the admin time allocated to the board.

So, what has been clanging around inside our diabolical pea sized admin skulls regarding this topic?

1. Setup a team only forum area: keep the number of boards in that area fairly small like say two : Team Strategy, Project Strategy so private team info goes in the team area and private project info goes in the project area. The thought here is to not have a lot of duplicate posts, if it doesn't need to be in private area then post it out in the correct area in the public forum.

2. Access is granted by request (moderation): I think we can setup additional members that can help with this process to review and approve access.

3. The criteria: K.I.S.S - the one stop record of truth shall be free-dc:
Who is a member of SETI.USA?. When someone requests access to the forum they provide their CPID and that is what is used to determine their status. Can people defeat our state of the art security measures and gain access? yea... but so what, think of it as going from totally open to semi-private.


Discuss please.

[Maxwell]

3. The criteria: K.I.S.S - the one stop record of truth shall be free-dc:
Who is a member of SETI.USA?. When someone requests access to the forum they provide their CPID and that is what is used to determine their status. Can people defeat our state of the art security measures and gain access? yea... but so what, think of it as going from totally open to semi-private.

I'd also include known friends there.