One thing I think would help Quanta is to acknowledge that the
internet is a
primary form of communication - I know this seems obvious and they
could say
"we're doing it" but, c'mon, really? :) Where's the Quanta forum?
Where are
the public areas and the members only areas within it?
Just one thing to comment on this. The survey that Quanta did some
years ago showed that there were still many members who are "black
box users" and had no desire for becoming internet users. When you
consider that Quanta does have members in their 80's who are happy
with the QL and at their age have no desire to learn another
computer this is reasonable.
I would agree to some extent with this. We have to recognise that
there are both users out there as you describe, using original QLs and
no wish to go much further, and we have to cater for those who
progressed to newer QL systems and emulators too.
The real issue, I guess, is to try to strike a suitable balance. I
suppose it's inevitable we'll never satisfy everyone.
In as far as Dave asks where is the Quanta Forum etc etc, I think we
have to recognise that the website has not been Quanta's strongest
asset for some time now. Recent committee decisions should
(theoretically) see more progress on this front. Once the basics are
in place - getting the CMS to work as we want it - we can then turn
our attention to new features. While ideas are always welcome, given
that past Quanta websites haven't done too well, let's get the
fundamentals in place first.
This means that Quanta always has to have some paper facilities if
it wants to serve all its members. Although I agree with you that we
should exploit the internet far more I think there is a resistance
among Quanta members, even those who are subscribers to this list,
to the internet replacing paper,
Yep. Reading the entire mag is better on paper for me, but I also like
to be able to search the PDFs for information too. I agree the paper
option will have to be there, but would encourage people to try the
PDF versions too.
Dilwyn Jones
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