Hi, My thoughts below:
----- On 9/30/07, Lut4rp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | 1. I wanted a forum because of the primary ease in accessing them. \-- It depends. I can read e-mails from mailing lists when traveling, with mobile phones. Not everyone is sitting behind a desktop on a broadband/dial-up connection to read forums. Forums are intuitive, and more customer-oriented. Developers, in general, prefer mailing lists. ----- | our main goals in this community is to spread the use of FOSS like Ubuntu. I | suggest somehow replacing/modifying the lists with the forum. \-- Each tool is useful in one way or another. You have to use the right tool for the right tasks, with the right people, at the right time ... (1) ----- | I dont think a | maiing list is that suitable for a country like India where people are still | new to FOSS. \-- Are you new to FOSS? :) ----- | 2. The wiki is not a very good source of India-specific Ubuntu info. It does | need to be updated. The IRC channel is way too unfamiliar to people in | India. \-- Need to learn to get used to the FOSS culture. Also see (1). ----- | answer them "Goto the wiki, Join the mailing list!". Every time, its the | same reply, "mailing list? forum nahi hai? XP ka vo forum hai na, | xxxxxx.com, vaisa?" \-- There are many forums like linuxquestions.org, linuxforum.com where people also participate. Nobody said you shouldn't ask Ubuntu questions there :) http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#before ----- | 6. Taking the ubuntuforums.org example, they arent India-specific, they are | monstrously huge, \-- Welcome to the huge FOSS community. This mailing list is India specific, and does not have heavy traffic. Please don't top-post, and use plain text when writing e-mails, in future. SK -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
