Hi Andreas, On Mar 7, 2011, at 11:13 PM, Andreas Hahn wrote:
> Hi everyone, > > I'd like to make the proposal to drop the existing mailing lists in > favor of a forum (bulletin board) software. > > The objective is to promote the XWiki community discussions to a broader > audience. > > 1) A forum serves like an advertising window as anyone can read the > contributions without subscription. You don't need any subscription to read mailing lists. See http://xwiki.markmail.org/ > 2) Anyone can judge the activity by reading the view count. Same here: http://xwiki.markmail.org/ > 3) New users can get in touch with the community without being urged to > subscribe to a mailing list. How? Even with forums you need to subscribe. > 4) Many people consider mailing lists as spam and prefer not to subscribe > 5) Contributions have a longer visibility and older entries will get > responses > 6) Communication gets more efficient as the same topics won't get > repeatedly discussed > 7) To my experience forums get much better indexed by google as mail > collectors like Nabble , Markmail, e.t.c. > 8) Forums encourage user to user discussions and you will see new users > taking an active role > 9) There should be at least one additional category IMHO: administrators > 10) A forum is more pleasure to read once a topic split into many threads > 11) A forum is beneficial when expecting increasing support requirements > - some real large scale forums were run by just a few moderators > 12) More people will see what a teriffic job the XWiki team does. > > Here's my +1 I have some good news for you: we already have a forum! :) See http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/MailingLists And more specifically: http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Forum Now if this forum doesn't fit your needs could you explain what requirements you'd have for a forum and which solution you'd pick? I personally liked jive forums but it doesn't exist anymore (it's folded into a full collaboration suite now). Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
