On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 3:48 AM, Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I admit to being a bit monolingual, so I also am looking for opinions. > The most common purpose I've seen for fc.o subdomains is Web-based > forums, where users can discuss topics and seek help in their native > language. (The fedoraforum.org site is English, for example, and > maybe not as useful for ESL or foreign folks.) > > But the purpose of fc.o was not envisioned specifically to enable Web > forums -- but to help communities build themselves up. In a lot of > cases it makes sense for that to happen regionally. Fact is, it seems most regular users prefer a forum like interface, so to build this community you need some sort of web based solution. When this topic come up in the it-users mailing list, I suggested to find a solution bridging the mailing list content to a web page to a forum interface, so people would not be scattered between the two medium; this is very important (IMHO) since most "technical" people I know consider forums a waste of time... Our searches did not find a suitable solution, then Mairin posted: http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/03/16/a-rich-web-interface-for-mailing-lists/ which would be perfect but I'm not sure it is progressing right now. -- Gianluca Sforna http://morefedora.blogspot.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/gianlucasforna _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
