Am Donnerstag, den 05.05.2011, 11:01 +0200 schrieb Rob Davis
<rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
On 05/05/11 10:38, Henning Pingel wrote:
Hello,
[This email has been sitting in my drafts folder for a few weeks.
Today
I had the courage to send it.]
I was wondering if it would make sense to offer a place for VDR
users
using the sky_uk/freesat/S28.2E/freeview platforms to communicate
with
each other. The intention is that people can discuss their special
needs
like freesat EPG, red button stuff, channel lists, channel logos and
all
other things and test new inventions (like the red button extension)
together.
Being a frequent user of freesat channels myself and being a member
of
the developers behind the yaVDR distribution (www.yavdr.org), I
would
like to offer to you to open up an English language community forum
on
our yaVDR board located at forum.yavdr.com <http://forum.yavdr.com>.
This board is currently mostly used by our development team for
internal
discussions, so there is not much to see there for external visitors
yet.
Please don't get me wrong: I don't want to drag away developer
discussions from this mailing list, it's more a forum where
developers
and users who share the same topics (freesat/freeview/SKY_UK) can
communicate and solve problems related to VDR together. And
knowledge
could be made more accessible for new VDR users.
Maybe this could also be a good starting point for building up an
English language VDR user community forum - starting off with
UK/Ireland
users. I always thought an English language community was missing
next
to the German language VDR portal (www.vdr-portal.de
<http://www.vdr-portal.de>).
If some of you guys here are interested in such a place, please give
me
a short reply. It only takes me a couple of minutes to set up a new
area
on the forum. Or is there already a forum in place?
If that is the case, can you add a US / ATSC / PVRInput section too.
I get the feeling there are only three people using VDR in the US..
:-) Although it could be good to share..
Rob, thanks for your suggestion.
I share your view that it would be perfect to have a big English
language forum for international VDR users with regional sections for
user groups with the same problems. Until today I'm still very unsure if
I want to volunteer in offering such a big forum because it consumes
quite a lot of time in maintaing it (moderation, deleting spam messages,
updating board software, making backups, throw out malicious hackers,
hosting + making sure it's available and fast). But you can be sure that
we have discussed the idea of an international forum several times
within the yaVDR team and always came to the conclusion not to open up a
big forum.
I was looking for a way to offer an English language forum and at the
same time keep the maintenance workload for me relatively low so that
I'm able to still help out with developing new yaVDR features.
I'm still of the opinion that a real full-blown English language forum
for VDR is too much responsibility and too time-consuming for me next to
maintaining the yaVDR website and yaVDR documentation. But because of my
personal interest for the UK channels and the amount of new ideas and
patches around a UK "flavoured" VDR here on this mailing list, I made
this offer.
Alternatively, I would ale be very happy if somebody else would
volunteer and open up a full-blown international English language VDR
forum. Then the yaVDR team could also slip into that forum with a yaVDR
section.
That's my current point of view and that makes me hesitate to open up a
VDR forum that is not limited in any way (by topics or region). I hope
you understand my point. Basically, as soon as I'm convinced that there
are other people seriously interested in supporting an international
English language forum I might reconsider my point of view.
There are other thoughts regarding the goal of a forum that I will put
into the answers to the other people who replied.
Regards,
Henning
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