As I said before, I think a forum is good for making the community more alive and more open, also for newbies. Also it good be a possibility to make things more central in combination with linuxaudio.org. Why not put a link on the linuxaudio.org site to the forum and eventually change the name of the forum if the moderator can agree with the suggestion? Or maybe it is possible to change the forum to linuxaudio.org (I'm a noob on this area...). This are my suggestions. I think if the people of linuxaudio.org like the idea, they have to make plans and contact the moderator of linuxmusicians.com.... which I want to do also, if this is wanted.... I also like the mailinglist and don't want to connect these thing either (see message M Knecht). I think such a mailinglist is very nice, but a forum is more for people who wants also to communicate and socialize more with people, more for the 'mass'. What is wrong with having options to choose? And the forum is not a 'if', cause it's exist allready and so it looks like people have a need for it.... Kind regards, Dirk Mark Knecht wrote: > Sorry about top posting but that seems to be accepted in this thread. > > One thing I hope folks **never** do here is what they did recently on > the Wine-Users list where they created a forum and then linked > Wine-Users email list to the forum. Now when people post in the forum > all of that shows up on wine-users and anything in wine-users is > posted back into the forum. What a mess! Forum postings don't need to > keep any context since you can look at the post just above it. This > means you start seeing emails that say things like "Yes" and nothing > else. What a mess! > > It got so bad I quit wine-users after being a subscriber for probably 6 years. > > Personally I like the immediacy of an email list but I like reading > forums more than gossemer threads, etc., when I want to study some > subject I don't know much about. > > - Mark > > On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Thomas Vecchione <seablaede@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Yes, however what oyu don't see is how many people DON'T do the forums for >> assistance. Meaning the people that use google first. Personally I don't >> like to sign up for a forum for minor things that should be documented >> elsewhere. A forum and/or mailing list is the last place as I prefer not to >> sign up for more things I have to remember username and passwords for. >> Things like OpenID may change this, but in general I agree having a strong >> documentation and THEN forums or other communities seems a better choice to >> me. >> >> Not to say that the option doesn't already exist on linux-audio.org Just >> that when it comes to choosing what to spend time on, it should be >> considered. Personally ont he forum I moderate that is Linux related, I >> find myself wishing more and more I had put the time forth to set up a >> strong documentation web page of questions I frequently see there so that i >> can point people to said documentation. The key of course is strong and >> well written, but it can then also point people where to go to learn more. >> >> I hope that rambling was at least coherent. It wasn't just me expressing >> personal beliefs, but also trying to express a different point of view and >> reasons for it. >> >> Seablade >> >> On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Ivica Ico Bukvic <ico@xxxxxx> wrote: >> >>>>> You can make linuxaudio.org 'alive' when you put also a forum on the >>>>> site. When there's a active forum, more people will visit the site and >>>>> more people will find the site, cause now it isn't very clear for >>>>> newbies where to go... >>>>> >>>> I don't do forums. They are clumsy and worthless things compared to the >>>> sleek efficiency of mailing lists. >>>> >>>> When I'm a newbie, I don't look for forums - I look for wikis. >>>> >>> While I appreciate your thoughts on this matter, the keyword here is "we" >>> >> as >> >>> in community, not "I" as in my personal tastes. In other words, while some >>> (many?) of us may not care much for forums, others may, including >>> newbies--see Ubuntu forums for instance. >>> >>> Lao site has addition of forums on the long-term roadmap, so I think >>> >> having >> >>> this as part of lao is something I would very much like to encourage. >>> >>> Best wishes, >>> >>> Ico >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Linux-audio-user mailing list >>> Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-audio-user mailing list >> Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
