On 07/25/2010 02:02 AM, Peter Eisinger wrote:
El 24/07/2010 13:15, Ivan Shmakov escribió:
> Frederic Muller<- SFI<fred@softwarefreedomday.org>> writes: > Dear all,
We've been considering a move to using a forum as our main discussion platform based on the following reasons:
- More open and visible - Searchable - Mailing list are usually for developers. Our community is definitely not developers oriented - Better for search engines indexing - More pleasant to read - And you get to add a little icon for yourself ;-)
Could you please take a look at http://gmane.org/ instead? It offers both Web and NNTP interfaces for quite a lot of mailing lists already, and my opinion is that it solves all of the issues above (including the icons.)
+1 (gmane) Mailman is the best for Events community organization.
Forum work fine for Help desk community, etc..
From looking at the current content of the mailing list it looks a lot more like Help desk support than event community. This is sounding a lot like mailing list vs forum (endless) debate. So I will tell you a little story of mine: In my LUG we started with a mailing list... we had similar discussion many times. We were then a group with 80 emails subscribed at the maximum on the mailing list (with double or tripple registrations) and meetings of 10-20 people (20 being amazing). That lasted from 2002 to 2007. In 2007 we moved to a forum. Today (mid 2010) we have 1550 registered members, 8 meetings a month, and about 50-70 people at each monthly meetings. We have organized countless conferences some International ones with Andrew Morton and the Linux Foundation and I could tell you so much more about the visibility acquired from using a forum. So there is no question in my mind: we will use the tool we need to develop our (marketing really) community. Of course we will keep the Announce mailing list and might - and that's really not likely right now - keep the other lists for the few geeks among us, assuming I have more than 2 emails requesting to keep it. I know some forum software do allow both email and web posting. Some have complained that it brings confusion sometimes. This is why I am asking the people subscribed to this list (about 1500 which is less than my LUG...and it shouldn't) which software they would recommend. So let's continue the discussion about our forum migration :) Fred No seeing the group
Though I understand that I speak for a minority, there are users that find mailing lists (newsgroups) much more convenient to use than Web forums. Also, Web forums are typically plainly painful to use with, say, Lynx (thanks to, e. g., Javascript and Captcha), and it's the browser of choice for some eager free software proponents. (And, IIUC, it's of much more value to a visually-impaired person than any “modern-style” browser.)
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