On Sun, 04 May 2008 18:47:04 +0200 Alexander Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Benoit St-Pierre wrote: > > Hi! > > > Once upon a time, there was a Scid forum : > > Do we need a forum ? > > > > If we (I mean : you, of course) answer "yes" to that question, there > > comes the mighty second question : > > > > How do we proceed to create one ? > > Well, let me be a bit heretical. Don't we have a forum yet? > I mean, I'd consider this mailinglist a forum. Everybody can > join the discussion, ideas as well as bug report or whatever > concerning scid is welcome here, hence, what would be the > target of another platform? > Agreed! I'll probably never get why all these fora have so many friends. (A symptom of getting old? May be.) A wiki to gather the information, a mailing list with archive for discussions. Perfect. Over and out. And both, forum and mailing list? Only a burden. More for the active people, but even for a lurker like me ;-) Detlef > Addtionally, I admit, if you suggest some of these web > forums floating arround, I'm really no friend of them. > Mailinglists are much simpler to handle, I do not need to > log in, get all messages, can read and answer and do not > need to click here and there and ... > > > Having a forum may be yet another way to reach more people. > > Hm, ok, as general knowledge decreases exponentially, maybe > subscribing to a mailinglist is a technical barrier these > days. <scnr> ;) > > > So I am not willing to push forward the idea since next Autumn. But if > > we decide to have one, it certainly has some implications over the > > documentation project. So I guess we should start talking about that. > > Agree, at least if such a thing should be created, it > should definitely be located close to the scid sites. I did > never check into details whas sf offers in that regard. > > On the other hand, if the community here comes to the > conclusion that we need one, it might be a better place to > locate it on a chess related site, as this would at least > offer it directly to the target group. Some chess server > might suite there well, being it FICS or whatever. > > > Any take on this ? > > Personally, I'm happy with this list and have not the > capacity to set up one. > > -- > > Kind regards, / War is Peace. > | Freedom is Slavery. > Alexander Wagner | Ignorance is Strength. > | > | Theory : G. Orwell, "1984" > / In practice: USA, since 2001 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference > Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. > Use priority code J8TL2D2. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone > _______________________________________________ > Scid-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
