That sounds as a good idea, and I support Eli and Oron's point of view (I personally do not have facebook account).
If somebody would be willing to open such a group, with a bit of information on haifux + links to haifux that would be nice. Note that hiafux has a google calendar, which gives you RSS capabilities AFAIK, so as long as you can sync it with the calendar - you're fine (the calendar and the website are usually updated with 10 minutes difference). As for what Zvi suggested - for that we need to have a backlog of lectures, where we know in advance the lectures two/three weeks in advance. Recently, this is not the case, and our schedule is usually empty. On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Eli Billauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oron Peled wrote: > >> If it points to haifux.org for the real info, than that's fine. >> However, I would not like it to become *the* principal haifux >> announcement board. >> > Completely agreed. I would take it even further: No events should ever > be announced there. > > I see no advantage in announcing events in Facebook, since all members > would get the message anyhow through the mailing list. On the other > hand, that would require another place to keep in sync for scheduling > and rescheduling lectures. Plus a possibility for contradicting information. > > But opening a Facebook so that people can announce that they belong to > it, could be a piece of advertisement. It should indeed only give a > short description about what Haifux is, and point to the site. If events > are announced there, someone may get the impression it's a reliable source. > > Eli > > -- > Web: http://www.billauer.co.il > > _______________________________________________ > Haifux mailing list > [email protected] > http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux > -- Orr Dunkelman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "a scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, -- a mere heart of stone" - Charles Darwin. GPG fingerprint: C2D5 C6D6 9A24 9A95 C5B3 2023 6CAB 4A7C B73F D0AA (This key will never sign Emails, only other PGP keys. The key corresponds to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list [email protected] http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
