I disagree. I'm a general contractor, Mike. My day-in, day-out stuff is implementing the EPAs new Lead Safe law on my job sites, selling restoration services, renovating clients kitchens and bathrooms, making sure I'm in compliance with federal and local laws, managing accounting for my business and the like. I've got enough stuff on my plate that I wouldn't go to a forum unless I needed help.
With a list, SipX stays in front of me. I skim through the posts and they keep me familiar with problems and fixes to SipX that I might encounter and apply later. If a topic comes up that I may be able to contribute and provide an answer, I can do it. With a forum, that's just not going to happen -- I'm not going to go to the forums because I don't have the time and it's not top of mind. My fear is that people like ME are not going to participate -- not that the engineers, resellers, and service providers aren't (they'll be there because they have to service and sell a product). I don't think that this is an "old school" vs. contemporary question. I think that it is a "how people work" question. Every person works differently and, I think the goal is to keep as many folks involved in this project as possible -- in the way that best suits them to contribute. I think we made a great stride when Matt cobbled the list into a forum. Now the question is, "how can we make it better?" One thought I have -- from the mailing list perspective -- is whether more digest options are available (to package all the messages daily, for example)? Also, is it possible to group all the messages in a digest by topic so that the conversation on that topic can be read linearly? I'm not opposed to the forum, I just don't want the mailing list to go away. Paul -----Original Message----- From: m...@grounded.net [mailto:m...@grounded.net] Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 2:39 PM To: sipx-users Subject: Re: [sipx-users] Mailing list or forum >On 8/13/2010 1:18 PM, Paul Herron wrote: > Scalix message content >While I agree with everything Josh has written below, Im loathe to let >go of the mailing list. I fear/suspect that shifting to a forum only >will lead to a decline in participation and or attrition. Seems the reason this would come true is if the project always has an air of 'engineer only' to it. In other words, it's the higher level folks using/developing this product that don't want the changes and your fear above amounts to them not moving and so hurting any chances of using forums which really, is the modern way of doing things these days. Lists are old school, ask pretty much anyone out there that isn't part of a list and they will tell you they probably shy away from any project that is list based. That's how I see it at least, right or wrong, I'm not an engineer, don't work on this day in and out so see it as an end user for the most part at this time at least. Mike _______________________________________________ sipx-users mailing list sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users/
