[Casper] forum?

[Clinton Blackmore]

This is an interesting idea, indeed.


First, I wanted to mention a site that should be up within a month,  
called http://serverfault.com/ .  (Right now they've got a logo  
contest going on, with $2^9 on the line.)  This will be the sysadmin- 
targetted sister site to the programmer-targetted site http://stackoverflow.com/ 
.  The about page ( http://stackoverflow.com/about ) gives a  
reasonable idea of what it is, which, in brief is: you ask a question,  
and people give their answers.  The better answers (and questions) are  
voted up.  Furthermore, when the system trusts you (because you've  
given good answers in the past), you can edit questions and answers to  
clarify them or fix them.

Thus, the best answers rise to the top, and if there is a bug (like a  
missing semi-colon in a script), it will be fixed, so that the answer  
is useful.  (As opposed to, 50 posts down, seeing "yeah, you know  
reply #12, it has this minor typo in it")

I'm really excited about serverfault.  If it takes off at all like  
stackoverflow, it'll be an excellent place to go to get your questions  
answered (and, as I have time, I hope to answer some other questions  
to help people.)  Also, you will potentially benefit from a large  
community of system administrators, such as the many mac admins who  
don't use Casper but can still help with the problems we face, and,  
indeed, the many unix admins who can answer a lot of scripting  
questions, and heck, if you have a AD or Parallels problem, some of  
the Windows administrators can give you there two bits.


Secondly, I wanted to mention that I'd considered blogging about a  
couple of things I've found to be useful, but could certainly put that  
up at a community site instead.  I am considering putting up  
screencasts, too.


Lastly, I wanted to mention that Jamf does have some knowledgebase  
articles up at http://jamfsoftware.com/kb.


Cheers,
Clinton Blackmore


On 6-Apr-09, at 1:52 AM, Criss Myers wrote:

> Is anyone interested in a web knowledge base / forum / repository,  
> or what ever you wanna call it for us?
>
> This list is great for communication and support for the Casper  
> community and im not suggesting we change it or stop using it, but  
> would anyone be interested in a website where we can post scripts,  
> best practice documents and be a general store of knowledge.
>
> Personally i think it would be great to have a site where we can  
> place scripts we use and procedures we use so that others can  
> benefit from them and visa versa. We have a great deal of knowledge  
> in this group where users have distinct areas or expertise, some of  
> us have worked on windows installs, some on printing issues, some on  
> Adobe products, some on dump packages and custom triggers etc.
>
> We could build up an archive of useful tips and hints that anyone of  
> in the group can dip into at anytime.
>
> You guys may have some great tips and hints and procedures that wont  
> get on this list because no one asks the question but may be of use  
> to us all.
>
> We could also gather a list of users and what our areas or expertise  
> are, where we work and what we.
>
> what do you guys think?
>
>
> Regards
>
> Criss
>
> Criss Myers
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> Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5
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