Caroline Ford wrote: > Complaints about top-posting etc make me wonder who we are targeting. > Only long-term geeks care about such things - and yet the point of > Ubuntu is to bring linux to the un-converted, to 'normal' people. Our > target groups will use HTML mail, web mail and won't care about old > mailing list and usenet netiquette.
Ubuntu is for human beings. That is the target group. Us geeks are human beings too. > Rather than have our own forum I think it would be better to see if we > can get a sub-forum of the main Ubuntu forums. There are many UK > Ubunteros there but you never see them here, or on launchpad for that > matter. It would be great to reach out to that community - I know we > have wiki space but the Ubuntu wiki is quite frankly a mess. If we *have* to have any kind of web based forum then this is the way forward, it means none of us have to do any sys-admin things and it means it's really easy for more Ukers to find us. There's also a mailing list to forum gateway, though I don't know how well it works. Dean -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
