The node community is huge. If everyone just communicated via the mailing list, it'd be an unfollowable firehose of noise.
Between IRC and the mailing list, you can get most things. Twitter sometimes gets you early info about new stuff particular people are working on. Conferences are really efficient for learning about new stuff going on, and listening to the back conversations, but are ultimately not necessary to keep up reasonably well. On Dec 9, 2014 10:27 AM, "Ryan Schmidt" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Dec 9, 2014, at 9:02 AM, Aria Stewart wrote: > > > On 9 Dec 2014, at 04:26, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > > >> How can there be "a broad community effort", how can there be "open > collaboration", how can the "community step in and effectively solve the > problems" if the existence of these efforts is not announced to the > community--this community right here on this discussion group? I feel very > out of the loop reading a thread titled "node.js and io.js reconciliation" > when previously I was not aware of the existence of io.js nor the issues > that prompted its creation. > > > > Because the community around node is much, much bigger than this mailing > list. It's conferences and events, twitter conversations and blog posts all > over the web. It's IRC conversations chat on Gitter and It's conversations > on Reddit and Stack Overflow. Not everything happens here! > > While I'm sure all of those are valuable in their own way, the mailing > list is the only medium that delivers information to my mailbox without me > having to go out and look for it. > > -- > Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > New group rules: > https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md > Old group rules: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/2AE786F3-F3B1-43CB-B327-BAD5E58032EC%40ryandesign.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ New group rules: https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md Old group rules: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/CABcFeBWXn6a%3DWWg4%3DGG%2BcFsu8M3NZ4ZZpKvKZJoNr3taEMKZvA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
