Hi I do not quite know what/witch forum software you mean. I firmly believe there is good forum software out there as the ubuntu-Linux formus or Gentoo forums (witch I both find far better then the Sourceforge Forums). What they use is vBulletin 3.0.7 see here http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/supportoptions/freesupport http://www.ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=68
I do not think the mailinglist should be substituted with a forum. Why not both or more? Forum, IRC Channel good old archived mailing list etc. There a many options for great softwares. And bear in mind. You already have a Wiki in use. Wiki's are just great if you know how to use and edit them. They are also very easy to learn: http://openforum.worldvista.org/~forum/index.php?title=User_talk:Zeno Best Zeno On 7/31/05, TyrusMaynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am posting with a specific topic, but want to thank David Sommers > for his recent post expressing caution about "splitting" discussion between > the new VistaOffice (which is a forum) and the historically unified hardhats > (which of course is a mail list) I don't have a confident answer for that, > but > I am reviving an older question *will hardhats convert to a forum style* > I believe the time to convert is now, although I realize some folks > might still > prefer the email mode (and if the tools are difficult to maintain identical > content in both emaillist and forum application modes, I think forum should be > the sole choice) > For Friday 7/29 there were about 150 email postings, but volume is not > the > entire issue. The threads are long (which is proof of effort) and problem > solving and teaching is a multifocal conversation necessarily. I think a > *forum > is much more readable* than a succession of emails, whether in your own > cherished mail client or in the archives of hardhats. Email clients and > archives > require a click to move to each new post and often have confusing styles for > the > sequence of pasting past copy into a reply. *Forum mode transcends the pasting > of prior thread content* and it presents a cleaner read for pasting into your > PIM or linking into other sites like wiki etc ( I do wish that the HTML of > forum > archives treated each forum post as a document anchor for more granular > linking) > > If we believe that our postings should have the discipline to leave a trail > of > solutions ....that alone speaks for using a forum archive so that content is > more readable by subsequent visitors (not to mention our interacting usage) > > If it is appropriate to have the OpenOffice/hardhats split according to the > guidelines just now posted by Joseph , I think it is all the more important > to > convert hardhats to forum, if only to handle the additional traffic that will > occur on hardhats. That said it's probably valuable to have the forum > interface > just for readability. > > Right now there is not a large mass of forum content in the universe of > hardhats/worldvista/mumps/gtm to reflect upon, but visit this link as an > example > of a mature sourceforge project with lots of history to feed newcomers: > http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10226 > Pick a thread with 20 or 30 replies and consider its readability. > > Now read this archive of Hardhats email thread (on the topic of OpenForum) > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=10218400 > > Thanks for David Sommers link to the excellent article on technical tools > and > social actions > http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html > > Now that the VistaOffice has been given its guidelines and vehicle as a > forum, the core group that guides hardhats must face these questions on the > mode > for handling big traffic at hardhats. I don't know the methods for this > decision among venerable hardhats, but after some discussion and some process > that probably thankfully won't be called voting...I'm sure everyone can take > whatever changes in stride. > Rusty Maynard > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies > from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, > informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to > speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt77&alloc_id492&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
