While I do agree with some of your concerns, I do understand the need of such a new communciation platform: Google has been around and seems like it did not help us communication with the community.
IMHO need either one or both of: 1) a central location for communication and people helping each other ==> see ubuntuforums 2) a stackexchange like askubuntu which is also very popular. Those two proved successful building a strong community behind Ubuntu. So the requirement here would be having some gnome community members to participate. And I think it is a very nice communication platform since IRC and mailinglist have failed us. I for one am a fan of stackexchange. But I think we should support the idea of the forum for a while to see how it goes. Stackexchange is not dialog friendly as a forum. Cheers Seif On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 8:48 PM, William Jon McCann <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Karen, > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Karen Sandler <[email protected]> wrote: > ... >> >> I think newcomer users really expect to get information in the forum >> format, so I think it could be very useful. I guess we'll see what happens >> there in the meantime :) > > > But perhaps more will get information from google. > > I think it is important to make high quality, trustworthy information > available to search engines. It isn't clear to me at all that forums > accomplish this without a *lot* of moderation. Which in itself can come > across as heavy handed. > > Availability of this kind of information starts a virtuous cycle. While > disseminating lower quality information can easily create an overload that > makes things hard to correct later. > > Have we considered using something like Stack Exchange instead? Anyone have > experience with it? > > Thanks, > Jon > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
