On 7/24/07, Gerald A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 7/24/07, Richard Reichenbacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If they were interested in developing, they would follow the wiki as it > is the > only source for finding development specs, cvs links, walkthroughs, etc. Flaw in your logic: One has to "post" to the wiki to follow it. I'm very sure you can follow a wiki and never post to it. So, your stats conclusions are on shaky ground. That's a pretty large amount of people that are going to want help > building > openmoko and flashing it to the phone. I think a forum is a good idea > for > now if anytime. If we can show that there is a great support base > available > for the phone this early on we can draw a much larger fan base later on. > I think the idea is to get info out, in an easy to maintain way to as many people as possible. I despise forums. Some products require you to use them, so I have to. There are others that feel this same way. Some despise mailing lists. C'est la vie. I think the best thing would be to work on a way in which both groups could be happy. A gateway between the mailing list and a forum might be the best of both worlds. Then again, maybe not. But it's something that we should be talking about, rather then having a religious debate about forum vs. list. Comments? Gerald. _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
A gateway would not work. Forums and mailing lists are two quite different means of communication. In a forum you can edit things, move them, delete them. Also, discussing in a flat view doesn't only look different, it works differently. Also, if you connect both, you get all the trash that's ok in a forum because you can skip it sent to everyone in the mailing list.
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