RE: [Ampu-dev] New site sections

[Stover, Michael]

So whether private forums are used the way we approve of or not is a matter
of configuration. Gotcha.

However, it also brings up a point that if a public forum "decides" to
initiate a new private forum, someone has to have the rights to do it.
Either that, or it needs to be a special kind of "solution" such that, if
it's voted for, the system automatically creates the new private forum.
That sounds ugly, but the alternative is to have a forum administrator that
is trusted to carry out the wishes of the voters in the forum.

-Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee Braiden [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 11:32 AM
> To: AMPU Developers' List
> Subject: RE: [Ampu-dev] New site sections
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 16:12, Stover, Michael wrote:
> > My thought was that only the Taskforce activities would 
> need to be private.
> > 
> > [snip] In the public forum,
> > an initiative is proposed (ie we need to make a bid for 
> contract X).  In the
> > forum itself, it is decided that the bid needs to be secret
> >[snip]
> > It's only for this particular
> > decision.  So, there aren't private forums "sitting out 
> there" unaccounted
> > for, and becoming a member of a secret taskforce is a matter of open
> > discussion.
> > 
> > -Mike
> 
> No, no confusion there.  I understand the point you're making, but I'm
> just expanding the idea, to cover the full range of related 
> scenarios. 
> I'm a minimalist, so I try to look for a generic solution 
> that will kill
> lots of birds with one stone =).
> 
> What I'm thinking is that if we allow private use of the 
> system at all,
> then we should cover the entire concept of a corporation which desires
> none (or almost none) of it's internal work to be publicised in any
> form.  I think it's a valid thing to allow, if a little 
> unsavory, since
> organisations do practice such things, and they do need to remain
> involved in larger communities.  One thing's for sure, we 
> won't get big
> corporations to fully adopt the system's philosophy if we exclude them
> right at the beginning =)
>  
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> Lee Braiden,
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> 
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