[Mapserver-users] List as a forum

[Frank Warmerdam]

Giorgio Plazzotta wrote:
> Hi all
> I also agree with the opinion that a forum offers more advantages than a
> mailing list, though these instruments are different and both have their
> goods and faults. An even better solution would be an indformation system
> composed by a forum and a periodical newsletter. The newsletter would
> eliminate the disadvantage of the too many information and messages created
> in a mailing list and in a forum. The problem in this case is typical of the
> system where the information offer is too big, the user can sometimes not be
> helped to catch the most important things that happened in that period, and
> the important announces are mixed together with very specialistic infos. Of
> course in order to publish a newsletter a team of people who cure it is
> needed and i don't know if this can be done, but it would really be a great
> help seen by the user's side.

Folks,

I would agree that a "weekly newsletter" summarizing some of the more
interesting discussions on the mailing list would be of great value if there
were someone willing to prepare it.  Ideally it should have it's own
mailing list (as well as being distributed on the mapserver-users list) so
that folks who don't want to attach themselves to the fire-hose of
mapserver-users can still get a digested summary of what is going on.

Ideally, this newsletter would also include signifiant developments in
related technologies such as new PostGIS, GDAL, PROJ, GD releases even if
they don't make it onto mapserver-users, and also issues arising on
mapserver-dev.

However, preparing such a newsletter could easily take someone who follows
things closely an hour a week.  Not trivial when we are all under schedule
pressure of one kind or another.

Best regards,
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