On Friday, May 15, 2020 1:28 PM, Jim Hall jh...@freedos.org wrote:
> ...
> My comments/questions on a few ways we communicate:
> ...
My comments on your comments: :D
> Email lists
> https://www.freedos.org/forums/
> We obviously use the freedos-devel and freedos-user email lists.
> But the freedos-kernel list is not used very much. Looking at the
> archive, this hasn't seen more than a few emails per year in the
> last several years. What if we retired the freedos-kernel list and
> encouraged any kernel development discussion to happen on
> freedos-devel?
Sounds like a great idea. They're both development-related, so why not?
> Facebook
> https://www.facebook.com/groups/freedos/
> This is seeing a lot of discussion. I'd generally describe it as a
> place where people talk about how they are using FreeDOS.
Even though I don't Facebook myself, it sounds like it's enjoying some success,
and very well may be the channel with the largest potential audience. Keep it.
> Twitter
> https://twitter.com/freedos_project
> I use this pretty frequently, but usually to "broadcast" stuff
> happening in FreeDOS. I tweet out any news items here as an "ICYMI"
> (In Case You Missed It) and I share other FreeDOS-related news that
> isn't always something worth putting on the website. For example, I
> recently restarted the FreeDOS Blog, where I'm posting articles about
> the videos I'm recording for the FreeDOS YouTube channel. I share
> links to each blog item as I post them - but posting those links to
> the website as "news items" would be too much.
>
> - I also share stories from people on Twitter, about FreeDOS. For
> example, someone will say they've used FreeDOS for this or that thing,
> and I'll retweet that.
> - I also will tweet small news items from the FreeDOS Twitter account
> that I wouldn't usually post on the website. Generally, when someone
> announces a new project for FreeDOS (usually a game) I'll tweet about
> it. If they keep making releases and it's clear the project is
> actually going somewhere, that's when I'll make news items about it on
> the website.
It's a quick and handy way to get FreeDOS info out there. Keep it.
> YouTube
> https://www.youtube.com/freedosproject
> I started doing weekly videos about FreeDOS. These fall into 4 categories:
>
> - "Using FreeDOS" - showing off things from the FreeDOS distribution
> (as Robert described it, "FreeDOS in action")
> - "DOS applications" - demo'ing DOS programs running on FreeDOS
> (As-Easy-As spreadsheet, Word for DOS, etc.)
> - "Let's play" - demo'ing DOS games running on FreeDOS (mostly
> shareware and other proprietary games)
> - "FreeDOS programming" - this also includes a new video series I
> started for my Patreon, where I teach how to write FreeDOS programs in
> C
> *More info on that at https://www.freedos.org/c/
>
> - There's some chat in the YouTube comments, but most of these are
> about the videos themselves.
I've been enjoying it, myself. :) Keep it.
> Blogger
> https://freedos-project.blogspot.com/
> I had been doing a lot of writing here until about a year ago. In
> March, I started posting articles based on the YouTube videos. I
> include more detail and background info than made it into the videos.
Sounds like it's dead/dying, and we already have other platforms which offer
similar functionality. Perhaps it could afford to be dropped?
> DOS Ain't Dead
> http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/index.php
> This isn't a "FreeDOS" forum, but I follow it and re-post any
> interesting announcements on the FreeDOS Twitter, or the website,
> depending on topic.
A classic! Keep (following) it.
> And some lesser used communication channels:
> Slack
> I don't hang out there very often, and when I do I'm not seeing
> traffic or discussion there.
>
> IRC
> Very rare that I go there. I just went there now and there are 42
> people logged in. So maybe this is getting used, and I don't see it
> because I'm not really there?
>
> USENET
> Not much traffic to alt.os.free-dos, but looks like there's still
> FreeDOS-related discussion on comp.os.msdos.programmer and
> comp.os.msdos.misc. I link to all of these on the website (on the
> Forums page) but maybe I shouldn't make them so prominent with the
> "Join" button?
>
> And we also have the Wiki for documentation and other information, and
> the bug tracker on SourceForge to track bugs and feature requests.
> ...
All of these may bear mention on the FreeDOS site, but don't need prime
attention called to them. Differentiating these from the primary lines of
communication would go a long way towards reducing the clutter.
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