Hi Paul, On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Paul Martz <[email protected]> wrote: > Wow! This is unexpected. I've been preparing to launch my own blog and > discussion board hosted at skew-matrix.com. > > I had assumed you would never go for something like this, based on posts > I've seen from you in the past, which is why I didn't contact you to > collaborate. I had you solidly pegged as a mail-list, osg-users-only kind of > guy. :-)
I haven't been against doing a blog, just never had the time to go learn about it and set it up. Jose Luis step it up, and now I've got the release out I've got a bit more scope to learn. I think a blog from myself was actually long overdue. I do keep the list pretty up to date on what I'm up to, but it's not as easy to follow as a diary style reporting that a blog can facilitate. I'm still keen on keeping single source for OSG discussion, the new forum that Art has set up fit's in nicely with this as the two are kept in sync automatically, for both mailing list and forum users it just seems like everybody just uses a forum or a mailing list, so we have the convenience to end uses, but we also don't spread the community different communication routes. I don't have time to deal with two sets of public support routes, and no doubt everyone else in a similar boat, so the combined mailing list/forum is a great solution - you get the benefits without the downsides. > I think I'll still proceed with my plans, though, as I'm intending to create > a blog and forum for both OSG and OpenGL discussion. Having multiple blogs is good, lots of different view points and updates are good. I don't feel that having multiple OSG forums is good though, as it just spreads the community out and confuses things for end users, do they go for the list, or one of the forums... One of the items on my TODO list is to set up a forum.openscenegraph.org subdomain, and have this point to Art's forum. It might be that as some point Art might be happy to move the forum to the new virtual server. Now we have complete control of the server we have a lot more flexibility in what software we install and what services we provide. Just got Art's email on this thread... chimes in with my own points above. We don't need multiple forums in one forum is up to the task, and I'd add the my long running hurdle for a forum was interoperability with the mailing list is what qualifies a forum as being up to the task. Cheers, Robert. _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
