Hi Robert, I'm currently working on the Chinese translation of OpenGL Programming Guide 8th Edition, as well as some client projects. It's heavy work for me so sorry for not being with the community these days. Fortunately I'm going to have a few more time later and will be back for more tests and feature addtions :-)
In 2008, I started a Chinese OSG forum (bbs.osgchina.org), and have been managing it until now, which has about 7 housand members and more than 50 thousand posts. My experience is simply that you can hardly satisfy everyone who has questions in the forum. In most cases, askers will only put the questions like 'why my scene is black' or 'how to implement 3DGIS software', and it is nearly impossible to give a complete answer. I will always ignore such topics or just give an one-line answer to save their time and my time at that time. :-) We had better support forums and even social networks for OSG users, especially those young men, to get in touch with each other. This will also help OSG itself to grow more quickly and get more attentions when related news are coming. Release news will also receive more feedbacks if published on forum. In fact, in my opinion, the forum should not be somewhere filled with questions and answers, but a place for sharing ideas and achievements, making friends, and looking for opportunities. We need not only moderators but also active members to publish news, feature suggestions, discussions and project galleries in the forum, to attract more people to attend and encourage them to share their ideas, too. Wang Rui 2013/7/31 Björn Blissing <[email protected]> > Hi Robert et al, > > I would love for the forum to keep working. The forum is usually my goto > place to find new information about OpenSceneGraph and I actually like the > format better then the e-mail lists. Although the current state of the > forum makes me a bit sad for the new users. > > I have been contemplating volunteering to do some basic moderation, ie. > proof reading the first messages that users post before getting forum > approval. My main hesitation has been, as I guess for all of you, lack of > time. > > I also tend to work with OSG related project in irregular time periods. I > have actually been working with OSG on and off since 2002. (My first > experience with OSG was at a presentation that Robert held in Stockholm in > November 2001). I usually work with it for a month or two and then I am > away from the community for a couple of months doing other projects. The > forum is perfect for this on-and-off "lifestyle" since it doesn't clog up > my e-mail folders when I am inactive as a OSG user. (Registering and > unregistering from the email lists became rather tedious.) > > So rather then letting the forum die, I would like to volunteer as > moderator. Although I probably would be a moderator that would be rather > inactive during some periods. But if there are more moderators our inactive > periods hopefully shouldn't overlap too much. > > TLDR; I hereby volunteer as a forum moderator. > > Best regards, > > Björn Blissing > > ------------------ > Read this topic online here: > http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?p=55494#55494 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org >
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