On Thu, Dec 01, 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "Re: An out of the box solution?": > As I see that the audiance is people which are involved and care about FOSS > and > which the use mailing list method drives them away.
Dotan, what you're saying doesn't make much sense. First, Hamakor's mailing list is just one tool it uses to keep members connected. There are also snail-mail letters, there are physical assemblies, conferences (like August Penguin), not to mention members who meet in various occasions, and so on. Hamakor members also frequent Web-forums and other venues for discussions, which were not necessarily created as an official Hamakor medium (as you know, Rashut Hadoar also wasn't created by Hamakor, but we use it for our purposes ;-)). But all that being said, email *IS* an important method of communications. You cannot just discout it as being "inconvenient". If this Ram Matityahu refuses to use email and email lists, he loses out on much more than Hamakor discussions: He will also be unable to contribute to most Free Software projects! Do you think that if he tells Linus Torvalds to call him on the phone or join him on some "forum" of his choice - because he couldn't be bothered to subscribe to the linux-kernel- mailing list - this will ever happen? Linus would just laugh at his face. Alternatively, if Ram cares but really hates reading mail, he could ask you (who does read the mail) if there was anything important. This is similar to busy executives who don't have time to read journals and so on, so they ask others to summarize things for them. They don't just say "this journal takes too long to read, so I'll just ignore it". Again, forums are not bad, and many of them already use them (e.g., Whatsup). All of Hamakor's announcements end up on this forums. So what's wrong with this? Would you want Hamakor to host its own forum on its own server? Why, what's wrong with using an existing forum server? -- Nadav Har'El | Friday, Dec 2 2005, 1 Kislev 5766 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |"Mommy! The garbage man is here!" "Well, http://nadav.harel.org.il |tell him we don't want any!"- Groucho Marx
