Hi there, Please find below a mail from the creator of a fvwm forum. I have added a link to the fvwm homepage.
Have fun, Uwe ----- Forwarded message from Bert Geens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- From: Bert Geens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 21:07:21 +0100 Subject: Creation of an Fvwm Forum X-Spam-Score: 0.9 (/) Dear mister Pross, I don't really know how to start this off, so I'll just plunge into it straight away: I have started a forum (or Bulletin Board if you prefer) for Fvwm. I had a couple of reasons for doing this, which I'll detail below, which you can skip if you think I'm ranting too much (my apoligies if I am). Well, the first and most obvious reason is that there was no Fvwm Forum before I started this project, but that doesn't say why we'd need one anyway, the Fvwm community has lots of other ways of communicating: there's the mailinglists, the wiki and the IRC channel, so why would we need a forum? I'll start with comparing the advantages of forums to each of the above mentioned forms of communication. A Wiki is a great way to generate community driven up-to-date communication, but it obviously lacks any real communication between the participants themselves, further a Wiki provides answers and doesn't allow for user questions. I'm no big fan of mailinglists, they lack every decent form of layout in their messages and their searchability is about nonexistant. If we're talking about IRC we can just forget about searching, unless you want to search through 2Mb of IRC logs just to find that answer you heard someday to the problem you think you have today. So I think forums have the following qualities: - they are easily searchable - they maintain community interaction while at the same time allowing for the building of some sort of a "knowledge base", script/function resource, or just by being a FAQ on it's own. - they have a nice and easily usable layout. So I wondered if it would be possible to add a link to the forum from the main Fvwm site, the url is http://fvwm.lair.be . I'd be most grateful if you could help with this, I see this as my chance to do something back for the community that has helped me a lot already. Please don't hesistate to contact me me about any questions, suggestions or remarks you might have at this point. With kind regards, Bert Geens ----- End forwarded message ----- -- ,_, For personal reply/mail put "fvwm" (O,O) in the subject. ( ) Otherwise your mail is discarded by a filter. =-"-"-= http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~uwp -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
