Publishing our list of user group contacts

[Selena Deckelmann]

Hi!

I'd like for us to publish our directory of user groups. Issues include:

* Spam -> we need to do it in a way that encourages individuals to
find their local groups, but doesn't enable really annoying spamming
* Curation -> I would love for people to be able to add groups on
their own, with a minimal approval/cleanup process if spambots find it

All the data is currently in an amazing google doc. Reid created and
used this most extensively last year.

Reid - any thoughts on this? Can we delgate some or all of this task?
What other issues are there with publishing it?

-selena

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[Bram Pitoyo]

> What other issues are there with publishing it?

Publishing it meaning designing a PDF or creating a searchable database of user groups?

[benh]

Is this the doc that I helped with that one saturday? the one that had
a bunch of user-groups, who was a good contact and if they had been
contacted yet or not and if they responded?

If so then it sounds like we could just open that up as a google form
on the site to allow the public to submit folks. This would allow us
to crowdsource the input side, then have some one in charge of pruning
the list, removing duplicates and then publishing the editied list
back to the public in an effort to reduce duplication.

I know that I remember seeing that it was possible to access a google
spreadsheet like a data store so it might be as simple as having
another col that is a 'publish' feild that would then add it to the
publicly available list?

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 20:42, Bram Pitoyo <bramp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> What other issues are there with publishing it?
>
> Publishing it meaning designing a PDF or creating a searchable database of user groups?
>

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