2009/10/10 The Bronze <[email protected]>: > Opinions please. > > I create websites as a past time. Some for businesses. Some for > community groups. I think this qualifies as the later and have been > wondering how I can give back to the Ubuntu (and edubuntu) / Linux > community in general. > > What do people think about me hosting and administering a Linux / > Ubuntu forum for Australian members. I don't know about you but I'm > not a fan of the whole email / thread thing. It makes a terrible > archive of information and I generally find the content hard to follow > compared to the structure of a bulletin board / forum. > > Just want to make sure that I'm not going to create something that may > already exist somewhere (I haven't found it) and that generally people > may use as an alternative to threaded mails. > > I read an email tonight that if you want to do something just go ahead > and do it. Well I'm happy to but what do other people think before I > do?
This question is raised every now and then, and our answer is that we don't want to fragment our already small community by spreading it over multiple communications media. E-mail is a very flexible medium, and this can be interacted with in several different ways. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/MailingLists for a short list. Using a facility such as Google Groups can do a lot to bring a forum-like atmosphere to your list experience. -- Bring choice back to your computer. http://www.linux.org.au/linux -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
