Hello
Viktor Szakáts wrote: > > So to sum up technical problems, the only one which I believe is reasoned > is the speed of our sf.net forum compared to others. > > I think that slow performance alone isn't a reason to chose other forums, > unless there is someone who's willing to maintain a similar one with > similar > > features but better performance. We have no such offer ATM. > > Aside from technical aspects (and that's what I really meant as a base > for discussion), the main point is active community with answers (as > Chen rightly said), which means volunteer participants. > > Our forum has ~50 registered users, hmgforum has about ~100. The message > count is much higher, but the size of the community isn't so big. > > Just thoughts. For sure if nobody is willing to pass the knowledge he got > for free here, we will have a hard time building any sort of active > Harbour > support community, and that's something ALL users should be aware of. > > I see many ppl. coming by and asking for free docs (prefereably in his > own language), free support, free this and free that, but what nobody > seems > to realize is that free stuff comes only from contributions. It's not > there > by > magic. In a healthy community which wants to stay afloat on the longer > run, > it's actually required that everyone who TAKES also GIVES something. > Everyone should decide what is that he can give to the community, being > it 5 bucks, being it a little background research, support answers, > patches, > writing docs or code, small or large it doesn't really matter, but until > we > have ~10 ppl participating actively and a couple committing all the code, > chances > are very high that we're seeking impossible goal when trying to build f.e. > an active support forum. Simple reason is that ~10 ppl cannot do all these > tasks. > > Please think about this, and try to find a way you can help, after all, > you > got an excellent, stable, robust, feature-rich and industrial level > product > *for > free*, which can help to even create profit (cash), save time (which is > also > > money). In such case it's not devil to ask to return some of these > benefits > to the product itself to keep it alive and well on the long run. I'm sure > it's > everyone's interest to not let the project just vanish. > Very well said, Viktor. The problem is everybody wants something for free but nobody want to pay back, in any manner whatsoever. Regards Pritpal Bedi -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Fwd%3A--Viktor--Suggestions-on-How-to-Get-Help-tp26217598p26268453.html Sent from the Harbour - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list [email protected] http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
