Hi Mikkel,
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Mikkel Høgh <mik...@hoegh.org> wrote:
> On 24/07/2013, at 23.08, Erik Huelsmann <ehu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Mikkel, Chris, Marjan, Chris,
>
> My view on the matter is the following: We have really no idea about the
> size of the LedgerSMB community. Even if that may be reasonably big or
> growing, the number of active contributors seems to be stable and limited.
>
> While I appreciate the fact that different people like to use different
> channels of communication and collaboration, I don't think it's wise to
> spread the efforts of these contributors more thinly.
>
> As examples of how hard it can be to stimulate new contributions: neither
> the new ledgersmb.org site nor my book effort have spurred new content
> contributions. As a consequence, I'm more inclined to want to concentrate
> than to disperse communication. By the wat, to mitigate the problem of
> "answers getting lost in history", there's a google searchable archive at
> http://archive.ledgersmb.org/.
>
> Well, that is pretty much also my sentiment. I would like to replace the
> current forums with Discourse, which, at least in my opinion, is a vastly
> superior user experience, and has all sorts of clever tricks for
> encouraging participation.
>
> My secret hope would then be that the community might get to like
> Discourse so much, that it could eventually displace the mailing lists
> altogether :)
>
>
I've given the issue some more thought. Since you say you're targetting new
users, opening Discourse forums would seem not to be cannibalizing the
existing community: instead, it would be expanding into previously
non-existing groups. Assuming great success of the Discourse forums, the
existing community might (will) move (if and when those forums become the
main channel of communication).
In other words: you may be wrong to think that opening Discourse forums
will be splitting the community and - as shown by some of the reactions in
the thread - the existing community may not be the group to target by
asking them to move.
As far as the fact that mailing lists and other SourceForge resources are
very 2000-technology, you're probably correct: some of the projects which
newly started, have used Google Groups as their forum/mailing list software
and GitHub to host the sources. However, I've seen very few projects with
long SF history move to new infrastructure: after all, all the historic
backlinks have built up to point to SourceForge. That's an important factor
as well.
--
Bye,
Erik.
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