Madan U Sreenivasan <[email protected]> writes: > On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 9:10 PM, Shrinivasan T <[email protected]>wrote: > >> In todays meeting, we had a good discussion about the manging ilugc >> activities and getting more people for volunteers. >> >> People suggested that creating a facebook group for ilugc. >> We may get more volunteers and participants for the events, if we goto >> facebook. > > > The devils advocate speaking: > 1. What is a unit of conversation on facebook/g+/other tools that you have > in mind? Can it be archived and searched conveniently? > 2. How do you plan to move the existing conversations from the list to the > new tool > 3. When there are no volunteers here, how do you expect to have more > volunteers in facebook? > > I think what we need is a presence on facebook, and someone taking up to > updating it regularly, to garner more eyeballs and potential volunteers to > join the mother list. IMHO, social networks have not replaced mailing lists > yet. Far from providing migrating tools. >
I have not seen any tech community flourishing on Facebook. I might be wrong. Thanks and Regards Noorul _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
