Some forum users are already cross-posting on gis.stackexchange. Maybe that would be a solution.
Regards, Anita On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 9:25 PM, MORREALE Jean Roc <[email protected]>wrote: > In the french-speaking community there is two big forums where users come > to get support for qgis, they are better referenced than our forum on google > so it is often their first stop. I'm sure that there must be an equivalent > place for english speakers, if so it would better to redirect non-ML people > to these forums rather than keeping our own with a lower reply rate. > > Le 27/06/2011 21:16, Carson J Q Farmer a écrit : > > I think we have to be careful here, there are a lot of users out >> there who don't use mailing lists as a general rule. Mailing lists >> tend to be a bit more of a 'commitment' than forums, and I think we'd >> be alienating a lot of users if we drop the forums completely... Is >> there anyway to set it up so that forum questions are routed to the >> mailing list, while still appearing to be within the forums for those >> that prefer this? A new forum structure would probably be fine/nice, >> but mailing lists tend to be quite 'developer-centric'... I prefer >> mailing lists myself... But many of my students are 'afraid' or weary >> of them... >> >> On the other hand, the mailing list format works well for the R >> project... >> >> Just some thoughts to throw around before we completely abandon the >> forums... And possibly some users... >> >> Carson >> >> -- Carson J. Q. Farmer ISSP Doctoral Fellow National Centre for >> Geocomputation National University of Ireland, Maynooth >> www.carsonfarmer.com >> >> On 27 Jun 2011, at 05:36 p.m., Anita Graser<[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> +1 from your forum mod ;) >>> >>> Anything that reduces complexity in our web infrastructure is a >>> plus. The forums attract a lot of spam (= work cleaning up) and I >>> feel like there's a much bigger audience following the mailing list >>> anyway. >>> >>> Best wishes, Anita >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Pirmin >>> Kalberer<[email protected]> wrote: Hi all, Some time ago it was >>> mentioned that forum.qgis.org should be replaced. Why not simply >>> redirect to >>> http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/qgis-user-f2036571.html ? >>> Regards Pirmin >>> >>> > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >
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