Hi Jim, > 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?
Yes, make freedos-kernel read-only after sending a retirement announcement to it. If needed later, it can be re-opened. > 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. So, we are "promoting" a FLOSS OS thru a vendor collecting private data ... And the website is very slow on my 10-year old XP laptop. I don't like Facebook, sorry. If it works for others, 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. No Twitter user. Maybe you could integrate Twitter content to the FreeDOS home page? And/Or make several News categories on the FreeDOS home page, so visitors can filter for, e.g., "a new project for FreeDOS (usually a game)". Why is there no freedos-announce or freedos-news mailing list? Just thinking loud. > YouTube > <https://www.youtube.com/freedosproject> > I started doing weekly videos about FreeDOS. These fall into 4 categories: > 1. "Using FreeDOS" - showing off things from the FreeDOS distribution > (as Robert described it, "FreeDOS in action") > 2. "DOS applications" - demo'ing DOS programs running on FreeDOS > (As-Easy-As spreadsheet, Word for DOS, etc.) > 3. "Let's play" - demo'ing DOS games running on FreeDOS (mostly > shareware and other proprietary games) > 4. "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. Keep it. Maybe others wish to contribute some videos? > 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. Instead put entries to the News category or tag "Blog" on freedos.org. Or at least integrate showing the Blogger content on freedos.org. > 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. Um, yes, my forum is about DOS in general, because there was no other, when I started and FreeDOS mailing lists are limited to FreeDOS. FreeDOS is welcome at DAD, of course. By the way: Please adjust the link to <https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/> I support and encourage using SSL, although no encryption also works. > 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. Then why bother? > 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? I don't use it, but if I understand right, it's a quick way to post questions w/o registering anywhere. There's no chat archive, right? > 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? I still like Usenet for its simplicity and low bandwidth usage. (Using news.eternal-september.org for years, if anyone cares.) What about a "bridge" reposting Usenet items to the mailing list? > And we also have the Wiki for documentation and other information, and > the bug tracker on SourceForge to track bugs and feature requests. And we can't keep up with fixing things and updating items. :-/ Cheers, Robert -- +++ BTTR Software +++ Home page: https://www.bttr-software.de/ DOS ain't dead: https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
