Re: [GSAS-board] "betta-test" presentation archive page

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Seattle_Aquarist wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I think that until we are sure that the talks can only be accessed by GSAS
> members we should not make that page available that has all of the talks.
> The individuals that allowed us to record their presentations agreed that
> only GSAS members should have access to their talks.

It's a weird balance.  Go too far in one direction, and you end up with 
something that's going to tick off the speakers.  Go in the other 
direction, it's unusable and/or unmaintainable.  I've mainly been 
concerned that we don't have things EASILY found, i.e. linked from main 
pages or search engines.  Right now you can find the torrents if you 
search the gsas-member archives.

If we're going to go that far as to say "ensure only members have access 
to the torrents", then maybe a better approach to this whole thing would 
be to have the URL linked and easily accessible, with a "members only" 
tag, and the directory (including all the .torrent files themselves) 
password protected.

Steev would mail out the password every month.


OK, proposal #2... play with these:

http://www.gsas.org/talks/   - Same index page, but password protected.

Here's one of the torrent files inside it:

http://www.gsas.org/talks/shrimpguys.torrent

In order to access any of it, index OR torrent, you need to log in with 
the username "gsas-member" and password "wombat".

Such a system would enable us to continue announcing torrents monthly, as 
well as link to the index (with a "members only" note... this piquing 
curiousity of non-members and perhaps picking up a few more in the 
process).  Steev would send the password with the newsletter, and after I 
put up the torrent file, I can link to it in the member list, and say "use 
the username and password Steev mailed to you with your most recent 
newsletter."

I think this may work out much better in the long run.  Heck, we could use 
the same protection + index file approach on the newsletter directory, 
couldn't we?

  - Erik

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