CJ Fleck writes: > While the web site is going up, move this mailing list to a forum. > There is a reason that the Gentoo community is as strong as it is. > The support and communication is done in an efficient and > approachable manner. Mailing lists had their time, but 99% of us > don't care about *everything* that goes on. A forum is a nicer > interface. > > Once there is some separation I think we'll see the groups start to > form and real work getting done. With a mailing list as our only > form of community, well, it isn't much more of a community than a > newsgroup: lots of talk, little action. >
Personally, I don't like forums much (mainly because many of them are not that 'friendly' to users like myself which use screen readers). However, I can see the rationale and possible benefits to establishing forums. My suggestion would be to keep the mailing list for the time being, but as topic specific projects get up and running, then move that topic/discussion to a forum. the mailing list can then be the 'general' discussion area and a place to seek contributors when attempting to initiate a new project etc. In the longer term, if we are lucky, maybe a general forum will be warranted and we can retire th emailing list and move to a forum based setup - but be warned, if the software selected for the forum is heavily graphics based with poor labeling or requiring things that don't work well with screen readers, I will moan and bitch loudly until I'm heard or fees are collected for a hit ;-) Tim _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
