Re: Questions about the new GNOME Forums

2012-11-23 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, On 11/21/2012 08:17 PM, Karen Sandler wrote: On Wed, November 21, 2012 1:14 pm, Bastien Nocera wrote: Are those new forums: http://forums.worldofgnome.org/ the official GNOME forums? If so, why does they not follow the GNOME web style used on gnome.org, and more importantly, why are they

Re: Questions about the new GNOME Forums

2012-11-23 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 2:34 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: So it doesn't surprise me to see people pushing back against forums here. And it wouldn't surprise me to see a lot of push-back from active forum posters to joining a mailing list. A StackExchange channel (or whatever they

Questions about the new GNOME Forums

2012-11-21 Thread Bastien Nocera
Heya, Are those new forums: http://forums.worldofgnome.org/ the official GNOME forums? If so, why does they not follow the GNOME web style used on gnome.org, and more importantly, why are they hosted on a fansite (worldofgnome.org) instead of gnome.org? Cheers

Re: Questions about the new GNOME Forums

2012-11-21 Thread Karen Sandler
On Wed, November 21, 2012 1:14 pm, Bastien Nocera wrote: Heya, Are those new forums: http://forums.worldofgnome.org/ the official GNOME forums? If so, why does they not follow the GNOME web style used on gnome.org, and more importantly, why are they hosted on a fansite (worldofgnome.org)

Re: Questions about the new GNOME Forums

2012-11-21 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: On Wed, November 21, 2012 1:14 pm, Bastien Nocera wrote: Heya, Are those new forums: http://forums.worldofgnome.org/ the official GNOME forums? If so, why does they not follow the GNOME web style used on

Re: Questions about the new GNOME Forums

2012-11-21 Thread William Jon McCann
Hi Karen, On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: ... I think newcomer users really expect to get information in the forum format, so I think it could be very useful. I guess we'll see what happens there in the meantime :) But perhaps more will get information

Re: Questions about the new GNOME Forums

2012-11-21 Thread Seif Lotfy
While I do agree with some of your concerns, I do understand the need of such a new communciation platform: Google has been around and seems like it did not help us communication with the community. IMHO need either one or both of: 1) a central location for communication and people helping each

Re: Questions about the new GNOME Forums

2012-11-21 Thread Jared Jennings
*nodes head* On Nov 21, 2012, at 1:17 PM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: I think newcomer users really expect to get information in the forum format, so I think it could be very useful. I guess we'll see what happens there in the meantime :)