Tyrus,
The current list actually has a web based "forum style" that can present
messages by thread and a couple of other variants.....follow the link
below to the archive:
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
IMHO, anything that is an important thread and needs to be more
organized than what we are using now should and deserves to be in a Wiki
where it can be turned into something useful.
As for the VistA Office EHR list it too is based on Sourceforge and uses
the same software as this list.
Joseph
TyrusMaynard wrote:
I am posting with a specific topic, but want to thank David Sommers
for his recent post expressing caution about "splitting" discussion between
the new VistaOffice (which is a forum) and the historically unified
hardhats (which of course is a mail list) I don't have a confident
answer for that, but
I am reviving an older question *will hardhats convert to a forum style*
I believe the time to convert is now, although I realize some folks
might still prefer the email mode (and if the tools are difficult to
maintain identical content in both emaillist and forum application
modes, I think forum should be the sole choice)
For Friday 7/29 there were about 150 email postings, but volume is
not the entire issue. The threads are long (which is proof of effort)
and problem solving and teaching is a multifocal conversation
necessarily. I think a *forum is much more readable* than a succession
of emails, whether in your own cherished mail client or in the archives
of hardhats. Email clients and archives require a click to move to each
new post and often have confusing styles for the sequence of pasting
past copy into a reply. *Forum mode transcends the pasting of prior
thread content* and it presents a cleaner read for pasting into your
PIM or linking into other sites like wiki etc ( I do wish that the HTML
of forum archives treated each forum post as a document anchor for more
granular linking)
If we believe that our postings should have the discipline to leave a
trail of solutions ....that alone speaks for using a forum archive so
that content is more readable by subsequent visitors (not to mention our
interacting usage)
If it is appropriate to have the OpenOffice/hardhats split according to
the guidelines just now posted by Joseph , I think it is all the more
important to convert hardhats to forum, if only to handle the
additional traffic that will occur on hardhats. That said it's probably
valuable to have the forum interface just for readability.
Right now there is not a large mass of forum content in the universe
of hardhats/worldvista/mumps/gtm to reflect upon, but visit this link as
an example of a mature sourceforge project with lots of history to feed
newcomers:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10226
Pick a thread with 20 or 30 replies and consider its readability.
Now read this archive of Hardhats email thread (on the topic of OpenForum)
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=10218400
Thanks for David Sommers link to the excellent article on technical
tools and social actions
http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html
Now that the VistaOffice has been given its guidelines and vehicle as
a forum, the core group that guides hardhats must face these questions
on the mode for handling big traffic at hardhats. I don't know the
methods for this decision among venerable hardhats, but after some
discussion and some process that probably thankfully won't be called
voting...I'm sure everyone can take whatever changes in stride.
Rusty Maynard
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