> I agree with the others: a forum just divides up attention and > provides no value over what we get from googlegroups.
Forums are a different animal than mailing lists -- they divide up by topic easily. Nobody complains that a forum is too high traffic, and they attract a different set of people. Also, nobody feels like they need to read ever message that gets posted to a forum. I'm not saying we need a forum now, but I do think there is value in web forums. There was no official Ubuntu forum for a long time, and the unofficial Ubuntu Forums project quickly gathered thousands of users (in a few months) who weren't being well served by the Ubuntu-Users mailing list and gmane archives. After 6 months of this there were more participants in the Forums than on the main mailing list -- especially when you count people who post something rather than just the total "lurkers". And eventually the forums became official. So, while there may be ways to get most of the features of a forum from google groups, you still miss some things (easy topic separation) and you get a different approach to the problem. -- Mark Ramm-Christensen email: mark at compoundthinking dot com blog: www.compoundthinking.com/blog --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
