Looking over the forums, I'm not sure I see any useful conversation going on in any of them for a long, long time. What's worse, in my opinion, is that we have development discussions (a few anyway) taking place in the forums instead of the mailing lists.  These discussions have no visibility since they are only posted on the web site and not pushed to development team's email in-boxes. I was thinking that perhaps the only forums that are really needed on the projectpier.org web site are Support Forums.  I propose the following:

1) Eliminate all forum categories except "Support" which consists of "How-To" and "Technical problems". 

2) Re-label the main menu link a the top of the web site from "Forums" to "Support Forums". 

3) Add a link on the forums page, directly below the Support forums to the Sourceforge mailing lists (http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=195833)

Any feedback on these ideas would be appreciated.

-Jon

Dossy Shiobara wrote:
On 4/2/09 7:54 AM, Jon DeGenova wrote:
  
I see we have this developer's mailing list and a section of the website
forum that's dedicated to development also. This seems redundant, what
do you guys think?
    

It is redundant and personally, I prefer email lists that have 
web-viewable (and search-indexable) archives.

  

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