[Emc-users] Methods of community information exchange for LinuxCNC
I'm not a big forum user in general. I think the forum model must be carried out very carefully for it to be effective. I think the LinuxCNC forum is very good.I think the CNCZone is not so good. I used to be a regular reader/contributor on the CNCZone but the hassle factor was too high. Then I was getting emails from the CNCZone... saying I haven't on at the forum recently, blah blah blah.What a turn off! My spam blocker killed those. The CNCZone needs work. I prefer email lists as I think it is more effective time wise and I can follow the threads efficiently, while following a number of threads on a forum can be very difficult. Dave On 1/25/2012 9:36 AM, andy pugh wrote: On 25 January 2012 12:12, Sven Wesleysvenne.d...@gmail.com wrote: If you guys think that the internal forum works well so be it. To me it's not better at all than (for example) cnczone or the mailing list. I agree. However, it is much easier to find, and so ends up being the first port of call for new users with a problem. I guess that we could put a link there to the cnczone forum instead of having our own. I have nothing against the 'Zone and I am vaguely active there too, but it is too big. There is no way that I have the time to keep up with all of it, and the LinuxCNC-related stuff ends up being very dilute. I can and do read every post to the LinuxCNC forums and I think the same is true of the other moderators, there is a guarantee that a query there will get read, and an almost-guarantee that it will get an answer. -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Methods of community information exchange for LinuxCNC
I have generally found that old discussions - on forums or email - quite often provide a great resource for troubleshooting. Beyond that, the real issue is critical mass of participants. If there is very little signal, it is irrelevant what the signal to noise ratio is. C Buckley On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Dave e...@dc9.tzo.com wrote: I'm not a big forum user in general. I think the forum model must be carried out very carefully for it to be effective. I think the LinuxCNC forum is very good.I think the CNCZone is not so good. I used to be a regular reader/contributor on the CNCZone but the hassle factor was too high. Then I was getting emails from the CNCZone... saying I haven't on at the forum recently, blah blah blah.What a turn off! My spam blocker killed those. The CNCZone needs work. I prefer email lists as I think it is more effective time wise and I can follow the threads efficiently, while following a number of threads on a forum can be very difficult. Dave On 1/25/2012 9:36 AM, andy pugh wrote: On 25 January 2012 12:12, Sven Wesleysvenne.d...@gmail.com wrote: If you guys think that the internal forum works well so be it. To me it's not better at all than (for example) cnczone or the mailing list. I agree. However, it is much easier to find, and so ends up being the first port of call for new users with a problem. I guess that we could put a link there to the cnczone forum instead of having our own. I have nothing against the 'Zone and I am vaguely active there too, but it is too big. There is no way that I have the time to keep up with all of it, and the LinuxCNC-related stuff ends up being very dilute. I can and do read every post to the LinuxCNC forums and I think the same is true of the other moderators, there is a guarantee that a query there will get read, and an almost-guarantee that it will get an answer. -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Methods of community information exchange for LinuxCNC
IRC support is good too for 'immediate questions'. This isn't such a small group that we should have 'just one' channel of communications. 'Official announcements' should go out on the group web site, and that same information made available to 'freshmeat', sourceforge, git, and any other related outlet method someone wants to support. But the 'canonical' source should be the web site IMHO. Support is a separate issue from 'official communications'. Online user groups (google groups, yahoo groups, or mailing lists that are archived, are great. IRC sometimes is not logged and they are more 'one time, quick messages' that turn into conversations often with many 'eavesdropping'. Just my .02 quatloos. ... Jack -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
