On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Arthur de Pauw <[email protected]> wrote: > Let's do the forum, Opsera is starting to do more and more for the > community. There's already a blog, twitter, etc. Having a website just > makes stuff like that a bit easier I think. Have you seen the screen > casts from Ton? No way you could see these in the mailing list.
yes, I have. I fail to see the point, Ton can just send a message to the list with the link to the screencasts (never heard of html in e-mail? It works, I can assure you) > could imagine something like getsatisfaction or maybe a google maps > mashup to see where Opsview users are to be neat as well (OK, the > google maps thing might not be very useful ;-) this has nothing to do with the mailing lists, imo. Of course you can have a site with whatever info you want, but many people prefer discussing in mailing lists than in fora where you have to login and be online in order to use them. It may seem nearly impossible to you, but there are people who do not have broadband whereever they are. If you are on a mailing lists, the messages just pop when you're online and you can read them offline. > Make sure that it's good indexed by google, have it actively visited > by your employees, link to FAQs, etc. Have a system like many > technical forums have where you can give out point for the answers to > your question - users will start answering questions to gain points. > And throw in one free support case or so for the forum user with the > most points and there you go :-) if I want something like serverfault, I go there ;-) I totally understand opsera's motivation to have just one community entrance, but this community seems to prefer mailing lists ;-). And mailing list archives are routinely indexed by google, so you get to find lots of info from there with google queries. > Just my 2c > arthur -- natxo _______________________________________________ Opsview-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opsview.org/lists/listinfo/opsview-users
